Injury & Violence Prevention INdepth

Planting Seeds of Change - Equitably Approaching IVP

In this episode, host Mighty Fine talks with Chezik Tsunoda, founder of No More Under, an organization based in Seattle, Washington along with Jeanette Jacobs, a nurse educator and teacher at CAST Med High School in San Antonio Texas. They will share about their projects that have received seed grant funding through Safe States. Both projects focus on equity and provide opportunities in their communities to expand injury and violence prevention efforts.

Incorporating Equity into IVP work

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/ivpequitycalltoa...

Lending your voice to IVP - the importance of advocacy

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 Fa...

Teen Dating Violence - Re-Elevating Awareness & Prevention Strategies

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. 

Mobilizing for Missing & Murdered Diné Relatives

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 Navaj...

Special Edition - Safe States 2023 Annual Conference

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.

Building Equity through Youth Advocacy

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!

May 2023 - INbetween -- Maternal & Child Health -- Recognizing Disparities and Debunking Stigma

In this INbetween episode, host Mighty Fine shares with listeners his thoughts about disparities within maternal and child health. Factors related to drug overdose, COVID-19 and quality of care are having a negative effect on mothers and babies that needs increased attention and focus among injury and violence prevention professionals.

Find the Balance to Reduce Falls

In this episode, host Mighty Fine talks with Kristi Ladowski, an Injury Prevention & Outreach Coordinator for Stony Brook Trauma Center in NY. In addition to coordinating health promotion programs, she is currently working on her PhD in Public Health with her research focused on older adult falls prevention program implementation and sustainability. In this episode Kristi shares statistics about adult falls and also goes 'indepth' about prevention programs offered through her hospital that r...

This is IVP - Shining a Light on Careers in Injury and Violence Prevention

In this episode, host Mighty Fine sits down with several IVP professionals to discuss their unique roles and rich experiences as an IVP professional. Featured guests include: Beatriz Menanteau is a human rights and public health attorney. As Supervisor to the Minnesota Department of Health’s (MDH) Violence Prevention Programs Unit, she oversees efforts to change systems that perpetuate sexual violence, human trafficking, and exploitation, and ensure appropriate system-wide responses to vict...

Special Edition - Safe States 2022 Annual Conference

During the Safe States 2022 Annual Conference held August 31 - September 2 in Orlando, Florida host Mighty Fine had a chance to meet up with attendees and chat "in person"! Hear from our members what it's like being back in person for our Annual Conference after a 3 year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, what benefits they were getting out of the conference and exciting IVP work they are involved in. Take a few minutes to listen in and learn all about it.

Swimming Upstream - Drowning Prevention as a Public Health Issue

In this episode, host Mighty Fine talks with Tony Gomez, Manager of Violence and Injury  Prevention at the Public Health - Seattle and King County Health Department in the first segment. Following that, Mighty speaks with Morag McKay, Director of Research and Network at Safe Kids Worldwide and also the chair of the steering committee overseeing the development of a US National Water Safety Action Plan along with Rebekah Thomas, who is a public health practitioner with expertise in water safe...

July 2022 - INbetween Episode on Gun Violence Prevention

In this INbetween episode, host Mighty Fine provides a list of suggestions that we as public health and injury violence prevention professionals can consider and act on in regards to gun violence prevention.

Be Brave for Prevention of Suicide by Firearms

In this episode, our host Mighty Fine talks with Russell Krumnow and Dr. Emmy Betz about suicide prevention and firearm safety. In the United States, suicide is the 10th leading cause of death among adults. When we talk about suicide, we also need to talk about firearms as 1/2 of all suicides are by firearms and 1/2 of firearm deaths are suicide. It is so important that conversations take place about how suicide and firearms interconnect - even if those conversations may be difficult. Listen...

January 2022 - INbetween

Happy 2022! In this episode, we are changing things up a bit. This mini-podcast offers something for our listeners "INbetween" regular episodes and has been named as such. Join host, Mighty Fine, as he reflects on the topics of the INdepth podcast in 2021 and looks ahead to 2022 and ways we can work independently and collaboratively in strengthening the field of injury and violence prevention.

Devil’s Advocate: Can We Achieve Health Equity without Examining Racism?

In this episode, host Mighty Fine talks about health equity and how it relates to injury and violence prevention with guests Pamela Imm, Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Ashley Lamar, JPS Health Network and Ina Robinson, Safe States Alliance. Mighty poses some challenging questions to the group to encourage a very full discussion on what's been learned on these topics and what some possible solutions may be to improve equity across our nation.

Special Edition - Safe States 2021 Annual Conference podcast

Host Mighty Fine features Safe States members on this special edition to share their thoughts and feelings on the upcoming Safe States Annual Conference. Statements focus on Reconnecting and Reimagining - both individually and with their injury and violence prevention peers. Safe States members in order of "audio" appearance: Toska Cooper, UNC Injury Prevention Research Center Scott Proescholdbell,  North Carolina Division of Public Health Courtney Edwards, Parkland Health & Hospital Syste...

The Time is Now for a Strong Public Health Infrastructure

Host Mighty Fine talks with Richard Hamburg, Executive Director at Safe States Alliance and Sabah Ghulamali, Public Health Advisor to Senator Patty Murray about Public Health Infrastructure. In their conversation, they discuss the definition of public health infrastructure and proposed legislation that would improve it in our nation.

Injury & Violence Prevention Data - A Look Beyond the Numbers--Part 2

Our host Mighty Fine continues to talk all things data with guests Jared Parrish, a Maternal & Child Health Senior Epidemiologist with the Alaska Division of Public Health and Mike Dolan Fliss, an Epidemiologist with the University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Research Center. They discuss more about  data trends and explore ways that data collection can be improved .

Injury & Violence Prevention Data - A Look Beyond the Numbers--Part 1

Host Mighty Fine talks with Jared Parrish,  a Senior Maternal & Child Health Epidemiologist with the Alaska Division of Public Health and Mike Dolan Fliss, an Epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Research Center about all things data as it relates to injury and violence prevention.

Reimagining Injury & Violence Prevention

Our host Mighty Fine talks with Lindsey Myers, Director of the Violence and Injury Prevention - Mental Health Promotion Branch at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and Jamila Porter, Director of Resilient Communities at the Big Cities Health Coalition about reimagining injury and violence prevention and  what it should look like in the future based on lessons learned from 2020.

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