Organizations Filed Purposes:
Prevention Institute's mission is to build prevention and equity into key policies and practices to ensure that the places where all people live, work, play and learn foster health and safety, including mental health and well-being.
Health: Our vision is that all people experience their full potential for health, safety, and wellbeing across the life course through thriving, equitable communities. Health is more than the absence of illness and injury. It is a physical, mental, and spiritual condition that allows people to thrive and live fulfilling lives. Our approach to ensuring that all people experience health across the lifespan emphasizes equity, community and upstream prevention. To create healthy, equitable communities, we advance community transformation and healthy, equitable development without displacement. To create healthy states and regions, we support health, safety and wellbeing policies statewide or across regions. To achieve health systems transformation we work to ensure that health systems and organizations address the community determinants of health, safety, and wellbeing.
Wellbeing: At Prevention Institute, our vision is that all people experience the levels of hope and aspiration, belonging and connection, trust, dignity, safety, and control of destiny that are needed for vibrant mentaland behavioral health. Our work focuses on achieving good mental health outcomes, preventing trauma at a community level, addressing despair, and reducing substance misuse and addiction. Our approach emphasizes equity, community, and upstream prevention. We advance community-driven strategies to create environments that enable wellbeing and advocate for policies that support community-level prevention approaches. We address and prevent community trauma through naming injustice, healing, resilience, and community solutions for racial, gender and generational equity.
Safety: Prevention Institute defines safety as the freedom from violence and the threat of violence that are necessary for people to thrive and live fulfilling lives. PIs work addresses multiple forms of violence (e.g., school, community, intimate partner, sexual assault, and child abuse and exploitation) and the relationships between them. Our approach to ensuring that all people experience safety across the lifespan emphasizes equity, community, and upstream prevention. We engage multiple sectors and coalitions to prevent violence through shifting norms, reducing risk factors, and promoting resilience factors. We advocate for upstream public health approaches to prevent violence as a viable alternative to criminal justice and remediation approaches.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Larry Cohen | Executive Dir. | 50 | $306,691 |
| Leslie Mikkelsen | Managing Director | 50 | $199,385 |
| Rachel Davis | Executive Dir. | 50 | $193,877 |
| Elva Yanez | Director | 50 | $152,332 |
| Sheila Savannah | Managing Director | 50 | $150,654 |
| Dana Serleth | Chief Oper Offc | 50 | $147,142 |
| Manal Aboelata | Deputy Exec Dir | 50 | $144,033 |
| Sana Chehimi | Director | 50 | $139,352 |
| Andrea Buffa | Communications Dir | 50 | $125,278 |
| Lisa Parks | Assoc Prog Dir | 50 | $118,907 |
| Dr Marilyn Ritholz | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Howard Pinderhughes Phd | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Daniel Perales | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Michael Pastor | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Barbara Krimgold | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Kitty Hsu Dana | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Kathy Martin | Treasurer | 1 | $0 |
| Judy Derman | Secretary | 1 | $0 |
| Kalahn Taylor-Clark | Board Chair | 1 | $0 |
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