Webinar, Built on Trust: Community Partnerships for Firearm Violence Prevention Research
2026-02-26 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
The Kaiser Permanente Center for Gun Violence Research and Education invites you to a webinar series designed to build the capacity, confidence and visibility of researchers and practitioners working to prevent firearm-related violence.
This webinar will offer practical guidance on addressing past research harms and building durable, trust-based partnerships with communities to support meaningful firearm violence prevention research.
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New Evidence on HVIP Effectiveness: Implications for Philanthropy and Beyond
2026-03-02 15:00 - 16:00
Join this virtual briefing to discuss newly published evidence from Boston Medical Center’s Violence Intervention Advocacy Program (VIAP) and its implications for the future of hospital-based violence intervention programs (HVIPs) nationwide.
Co-hosted by the Health Alliance for Violence Intervention, the Fund for a Safer Future, and the Violence Intervention Advocacy Program (VIAP) at Boston Medical Center, this session will review and discuss a landmark study on HVIP effectiveness by Jonathan Jay et al in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The study found a 50% reduction in violent injury or involvement in violent crime, positioning HVIPs as one of several effective community violence intervention strategies.
Organizers welcome your participation to explore what this evidence means for funding, sustainability, and scaling impact.
Featured Speakers:

Fatimah Loren Dreier, Executive Director, The HAVI
Rob Wilcox, CEO, Fund for a Safer Future
Jonathan Jay, DrPH, JD, Associate Professor, Boston University
Rusti Pendleton, Trauma Response Team Supervisor, VIAP
Ruth Abaya, MD, MPH, Senior Director, The HAVI

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From Evidence to Impact: Implementing Prevention Education to Address Child Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation
2026-03-05 14:00 - 15:00
Join the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Division of Violence Prevention (DVP) and the Administration for Children and Families’ (ACF) Office of Trafficking in Persons (OTIP) for a conversation on how local communities are using prevention education and policy initiatives to prevent abuse and exploitation.
This webinar will focus on approaches for researchers and decision-makers in schools, nonprofits, and other institutions who are considering integrating prevention education into existing programming.
What you’ll gain:

Knowledge of evidence-informed practices that prevent child trafficking and sexual exploitation.
Examples to inform the design, improvement, and implementation of prevention education and related programming.
Understanding of the value of prevention education and how to implement it effectively across a range of settings and contexts.

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More Guns, Less Murder? Unpacking Recent Trends in Homicide, Gun Ownership, and Gun Policy in America
2026-03-10 12:00 - 13:00
Private gun ownership in America has surged in the past several years, even as authorities have intensified enforcement against illegal firearms—cracking down on “ghost” guns, tightening oversight of licensed dealers, and seizing more weapons from the streets. Meanwhile, violent crime, particularly homicide, saw a historic rise followed by a historic decline.
Join the Council on Criminal Justice’s Centering Justice project and leading experts for a conversation about how gun policies, enforcement strategies, and market dynamics are shaping gun violence trends today—and the implications for policy and strategy.
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Webinar, Perpetration prevention: Supporting People Who Use Violence
2026-03-11 13:00 - 14:00
Looking for new approaches, this session focuses on supportive, accountable, and healing-centered models for engaging individuals who have caused violence in relationships.
The webinar is part of a series hosted by The National Health Initiative on Violence and Abuse at FUTURES, the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Women’s Health and Gender Equity, and the Bloomberg American Health Initiative at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The series brings together leading experts to share cutting-edge research and innovative solutions. Each session dives into urgent issues shaping lives and communities—including pediatric and adolescent health, gun violence, healthcare systems change, care and safety during emergencies, maternal mortality, reproductive coercion, and more.
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From Data to Action: Applying the 2023/2024 NISVS Findings on Stalking, Sexual Violence, and Intimate Partner Violence
2026-03-24 14:00 - 15:30
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have released new data briefs from the 2023-2024 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS), offering updated national and state-level prevalence estimates of stalking, sexual violence, and intimate partner violence. Join PreventConnect for a web conference to hear from CDC staff who will walk through key findings from the new briefs and explore what they mean for prevention practice. Together, we will discuss how this data can strengthen prevention planning, support communication efforts, and inform strategies that address the factors that allow violence to occur.
OBJECTIVES:

Summarize key findings from the 2023-2024 NISVS data briefs on stalking, sexual violence, and intimate partner violence
Identify practical ways to use NISVS data to inform prevention efforts and messaging
Discuss implications of the findings for advancing primary prevention

GUESTS:
Sharon G. Smith, PhD
Kathleen C. Basile, PhD
Matthew J. Breiding, PhD
FACILITATORS: David Lee & Ashleigh Klein-Jimenez, PreventConnect & ValorUS®

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From Problem to Purpose: Choosing Research Questions That Drive Change in Firearm Violence Prevention
2026-03-27 13:00 - 14:00
Please join the Kaiser Permanente Center for Gun Violence Research and Education to learn from experts who share how researchers can work with community partners to develop questions that matter and are meaningful to communities, fill critical gaps, and can realistically be answered with available resources.
Speakers:
Durell Green, Teaching & Advancement Project Manager, CHOOSE 180
Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, Ph.D., Bartley Dobb Professor for the Study and Prevention of Violence; Director of Firearm Injury & Policy Research Program, University of Washington
Christina Umali, MPH, Teaching & Advancement, Project Manager, CHOOSE 180

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Webinar, Crisis Within Crisis: IPV and Climate-Related Disasters
2026-04-15 13:00 - 14:00
As climate change intensifies displacement and instability, this roundtable explores the emerging linkages between environmental disasters and increased risk of intimate partner violence.
The webinar is part of a series hosted by The National Health Initiative on Violence and Abuse at FUTURES, the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Women’s Health and Gender Equity, and the Bloomberg American Health Initiative at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The series brings together leading experts to share cutting-edge research and innovative solutions. Each session dives into urgent issues shaping lives and communities—including pediatric and adolescent health, gun violence, healthcare systems change, care and safety during emergencies, maternal mortality, reproductive coercion, and more.
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Webinar, Economic Justice & The Cost of Safety: Economic abuse, Sexual Harassment, Tech-faciliated Abuse
2026-05-13 13:00 - 14:00
This session reveals new insight on emergent and understudied issues from economic abuse, financial insecurity, tech-facilitated violence, to sexual harassment. It interrogates systemic inequality as a root cause and consequence of intimate partner violence, and highlights economic support as a pathway to survivor safety.
The webinar is part of a series hosted by The National Health Initiative on Violence and Abuse at FUTURES, the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Women’s Health and Gender Equity, and the Bloomberg American Health Initiative at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The series brings together leading experts to share cutting-edge research and innovative solutions. Each session dives into urgent issues shaping lives and communities—including pediatric and adolescent health, gun violence, healthcare systems change, care and safety during emergencies, maternal mortality, reproductive coercion, and more.
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