What do you do to make your community healthier, safer, and stronger? Where people aren’t struggling with substance use, violence, or suicide? Updated in 2024, this short video defines "prevention" and uses visual analogies to demonstrate how prevention plays a vital role in protecting communities.

Less than 4 minutes long, this video is a great resource for quickly illustrating concepts such as risk and protective factors, social determinants of health, and the spectrum of prevention.

Learning Objectives

1. Distinguish between different types of prevention.
2. Identify where your work lies along the prevention spectrum.
3. Describe the benefits of upstream prevention.

Length of Learning Opportunity

4 minutes.

Primary Competency(cies)

Public Health Sciences Skills.

Development Partner(s)

This video was developed with support from the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment Prevention Services Division, Community Prevention and Early Intervention (CPEI), and Communities Organizing for Prevention (COFP).

Enroll now: Prevention: How Upstream Thinking Protects our Communities