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Lori Toscano Featured on the Public Health Insight Podcast

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Lori Toscano Featured on the Public Health Insight Podcast

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Lori Toscano, the JPRC’s Director of Justice Technical Assistance, was featured in a two-part series on the Public Health Insight (PHI) Podcast. PHI is a public health organization committed to modernizing evidence-informed public health communication, education, and knowledge translation. The PHI Podcast is a weekly podcast ranked in the top 5% of all podcasts globally.

Part 1: Lori Toscano, Director of Justice Technical Assistance at WestEd, discusses career development in criminal justice and violence prevention, the importance of data, community involvement, and how her passion for community violence intervention (CVI) informs her work.
Listen to A Meticulous Career In Criminal Justice & Violence Prevention.

Part 2: Gun violence is now a leading cause of death in many demographics, but how do you intervene when many of the underlying causes don’t have anything to do with guns in the first place? Lori Toscano, Director of Justice Technical Assistance at WestEd, discusses using data analytics and machine learning to identify and address risk and protective factors for community violence. The conversation covers the Violence Prevention Navigation Framework (VPNF), WestEd’s new framework that leverages 70 community-level indicators to guide deeper root cause analysis and to prioritize interventions.
Listen to Deconstructing Community Violence With Big Data & Machine Learning.

 

WestEd Podcast on Preventing Gun Violence in the United States

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Gun violence impacts families, first responders, and communities in profound and lasting ways. In 2023, more than 18,000 persons died by homicide in the United States. And on June 26th, 2024, the U.S. Surgeon General declared gun violence a public health crisis.

In this episode of WestEd’s Leading Voices podcast, host Danny Torres talks with violence prevention experts from the JPRC and developers of the Violence Prevention Navigation Framework (VPNF): Lori Toscano, Shaun Ali, and Kerwin Henderson. Together, they help state and local leaders better understand the factors that contribute to or prevent violence within their communities—helping promote safe and equitable futures for all children, youth, and adults.

Their conversation covers the following topics:

  • Identifying the underlying factors that give rise to or mitigate gun violence
  • Leveraging big and local data to prioritize, assess, and develop appropriate strategies to reduce and prevent gun violence
  • Working with community and state leaders to improve violence prevention efforts across systems
  • Promoting equity and fostering growth

Jennifer Loeffler-Cobia Featured on the Public Health Insight Podcast

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Dr. Jennifer Loeffler-Cobia, the JPRC’s Justice and Public Health Policy and Practice Director, was featured in a three-part series on the Public Health Insight (PHI) Podcast. PHI is a public health organization committed to modernizing evidence-informed public health communication, education, and knowledge translation. The PHI Podcast is a weekly podcast ranked in the top 5% of all podcasts globally.

In this PHI Podcast series, Jennifer discusses her pathway to a career working to reform the justice system and help communities address substance misuse. She discusses the history of opioids in the United States, and focuses on the different waves of epidemics the nation has faced. The final episode highlights why a systems-oriented approach holds promise for addressing the opioid epidemic.

Part 1: Substance Use, Criminal Justice, & Public Health Advocacy On Capitol Hill

Part 2: The Three Waves: OxyContin, Heroin, & Fentanyl

Part 3: Policies Gone Wrong & The Power Of Systems Thinking