Injury & Violence Prevention INdepth Safe States Alliance. Podcast music "Reverance" by Raymond C. Mobley

In this INbetween episode, host Mighty Fine talks about the recently released "Equity in Injury and Violence Prevention Vision and Call to Action" document from Safe States Alliance. Recommendations provided to advance equity injury and violence prevention are provided in this resource, and Mighty shares his thoughts - encouraging  listeners to utilize this resource and take action to advance equity in their IVP work.


https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.safestates.org/resource/resmgr/ivpequitycalltoaction/IVP_Equity_Call_to_action.pdf

In this episode, host Mighty Fine discusses the importance of advocacy in injury and violence prevention work at the state and national level. Topics include advocating in person on Capitol Hill along with finding opportunities to advocate virtually using online tools available to assist in the process.

Guests include:

Paul Bonta, Senior Policy Consultant
Safe States Alliance

Maria Cariaso, Injury Prevention Coordinator 
Indiana Department of Health

Madelyn Maxwell,  Healthy Aging and Falls Prevention Project Coordinator 
Oklahoma State Department of Health

February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month. In this INbetween episode, host Mighty Fine shares with listeners some statistics on teen dating violence and provides some strategies that can be incorporated into injury and violence prevention work to increase awareness and educate on prevention of this important issue facing teens and families. 

Host Mighty Fine talks with Jolene Holgate, Co-Founder and Board President of the Missing and Murdered Diné Relatives (MMDR). This group was established in March 2019 to address the ongoing crisis of missing and murdered relatives on the Navajo Nation. It is comprised of a multidisciplinary team tasked with developing a framework to establish a Missing & Murdered Diné Relatives data institute, encourage community action, and develop a missing persons community action toolkit to empower Navajo communities to be proactive in prevention, awareness, and mobilization to recover missing relatives and to provide support to families of MMDR.

Website: https://navajommdr.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NavajoMMDR/

In this episode, host Mighty Fine is live at the 2023 Annual Conference in Denver Colorado asking participants what they think the next big injury and violence prevention issue will be and how can we prepare for it now.

In this episode, guest host Deltavier Robertson speaks with staff and youth from the Michigan Organization on Sexual Health (MOASH) to learn more about their youth advocacy efforts and how they used grant funding from Safe States to support their work in building equity into their programming. We learn that youth are not just the future, they are very much the present and their voices matter!