ASTHO and Safe States Alliance Policy Guides

Injury and Violence Prevention: Featured Resources

Public Health Partnerships with Education and Medicaid: Improving School Health
ASTHO, Healthy Schools Campaign, and Trust for America’s Health collaborated to develop this resource highlighting the need for public health agencies to engage in school health. State public health agencies have a role in addressing mental and physical health services for youth and can partner with an existing learning collaborative to do so. The Healthy Students, Promising Futures program addresses the delivery of physical and mental health services in schools through a collaboration between state education and Medicaid agencies. This resource provides an overview of the collaborative and provides considerations for state health agencies looking to address school health. « less… more »

Sexual Violence Prevention Framework Resource Tool
The Association of States and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), in collaboration with Safe States, developed the Sexual Violence Prevention Framework Resource Tool. ASTHO’s Sexual Violence Prevention Framework was the result of conversations with our sexual violence prevention learning community members, state health officials, and strategic partners, on sexual violence prevention from a leadership perspective. The framework identifies areas to elevate sexual violence prevention to state health leadership through leveraging data, policy, financing, partnerships, and risk and protective factors. The new interactive, online tool operationalizes the framework by populating its 18 strategic objectives with more than 100 online documents, toolkits, virtual learning, national guidelines and best practices, state examples, and websites. Collectively, they underscore the importance of a public health approach to the primary prevention of sexual violence. The tool can be used by state health officials and other members of health leadership, department of health legislative liaisons, RPE program leads, health agency staff, or regional and state level stakeholders looking to elevate sexual violence prevention. « less… more »

2017 Sexual Violence Prevention Policy Scan
ASTHO conducted an environmental scan of sexual violence prevention laws and legislation with the goal of better understanding whether and how primary prevention strategies for sexual violence prevention are incorporated into state laws and legislation. « less… more »

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President's Challenge: Injury Prevention