Thriving Communities Colorado

Addressing shared risk and protective factors through a health equity lens has the potential to prevent multiple forms of violence and injury, from suicide and substance misuse to sexual violence and motor vehicle injuries, while ensuring every Coloradan has equitable access and opportunity to thrive.

Critical roles in violence and injury prevention can include supporting individuals and families with resources or include changing the systems, communities, and environments where families live. Social, economic, and environmental inequities such as where a person lives and how they are treated because of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender identity can also contribute to injury and violence. This change in systems is often called a public health approach. Agencies taking a public health approach can prevent violence and injury by focusing on upstream strategies and the factors that put communities more at risk, and not just intervening after violence and injury occurs.

This network of organizations across Colorado builds capacity and expertise to increase prevention efforts across the State that address shared risk and protective factors and health inequities linked to violence and injury outcomes so every Coloradan can thrive.

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