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NEW IPS 2024 Impact Report

A YEAR OF IMPACT

From expanding naloxone access on school campuses to launching a digital mental health app for Latine youth, 2024 marked another year of commitment to building resilient, healthy communities across Southern California and beyond.

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We partner with
communities to
advance quality of life.

We believe in collective responsibility and collective impact. Together, we address community trauma. We reduce underage drinking rates. We implement healthy food systems. Most importantly, we create the power for change.

Advancing equity so people can live their best lives.

IPS partners with communities to champion health, safety, and opportunity for all.

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Protecting public health with upstream strategies since 1992.

IPS has been the lead agency for a wide range of upstream prevention programs around the nation.

Providing tools to support every aspect of prevention.

IPS’s Toolkit assists advocates, community groups, prevention practitioners, and policymakers in achieving community transformation.

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The Latest

A collection of Hot Topics, Press Releases, and Webinars. See more here >

MLK during his speech

The Day History Refuses to Let Us Forget

August 18, 2025

IPS Awarded $400,000 from California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to Improve Health Outcomes in Latine Communities

August 15, 2025

IPS Adds Three Board Members, Emphasizing Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, Climate Change

April 23, 2025

IPS Director of Prevention Programs Recognized by San Diego County Officials with Public Health Champion Award

April 23, 2025

Why IPS is Doubling Down on DEI, Not Backing Away

April 23, 2025

California Grant Extension Allows IPS to Expand Ongoing Programs Serving Youth in San Diego’s Border Region

March 3, 2025

IPS Announces New Initiative to Keep Kids Cooler While Preparing for Extreme Heat-Related Issues

January 30, 2025

Media Advocacy Q&A: Strategies for Effective Messaging and Impact

January 30, 2025

Loosening Alcohol Laws to Revitalize Your City’s Economy is a Mistake

January 30, 2025

Q&A — Empowering Youth: Coalition Building, Event Planning, and Advocacy

October 28, 2024

IPS Wins Five San Diego Press Club 2024 Excellence in Journalism Awards, Including Two for First Place

October 28, 2024

Social Media Warning Labels: How Teens Can Responsibly Engage in Social Media Use

October 28, 2024

IPS Awarded Funding to Enhance Behavioral Health Literacy Among Youth in San Diego’s Border Region

July 31, 2024

Individualism and the Fall of Public Health

July 30, 2024

Institute for Public Strategies Staff to Provide Expertise at National Alcohol Policy Conference in U.S. Capital

April 24, 2024

A Perfect Storm: When Climate Change, Racial Justice, and Mental Health Collide

April 24, 2024

Q&A: Creating Healthy Communities Through Cultural Appreciation

January 16, 2024

As 2024 Ushers in a New Silent Opioid Epidemic, Securing LGBTQ+ Spaces is the Answer

January 12, 2024

IPS Included in Historic Plan to Increase Outdoor Access to All in California through State Grant

November 20, 2023

IPS Media/GIS Director Participates at GeoGov Summit as a Health Panelist

October 17, 2023

Is the Business of America Really Business? Or Should it Benefit All of Society?

October 17, 2023

IPS to Lead Sessions at the NPN Conference

July 26, 2023

Taxing Alcohol to Protect Public Health and Safety Is a Good Thing

July 26, 2023

“Unity in the Community” Mural is Unveiled

April 26, 2023

How the “Housing Theory of Everything” Can Help Explain Alcohol and Other Drug Problems

April 26, 2023

Group of community advocates banning together

Creating a Prevention Campaign That Works

December 15, 2022

IPS Expands Tobacco Prevention Efforts

December 15, 2022

IPS Celebrates 30 Years Leading Projects Around the Nation

December 15, 2022

Tobacco Prevention 2.0: Integrating Equity into Smoke-Free Multi-Unit Housing

August 30, 2022

California’s New Composting Law Takes on Climate Change

June 8, 2022

This Election Cycle, Vote with Redistricting in Mind

June 8, 2022

Juneteenth at IPS: Historical Oppression and Upstream Prevention

June 8, 2022

IPS Honored for its Work Supporting the LGBTQ+ Community

April 5, 2022

Tackling the Alcohol Culture on College Campuses: Do Late Night Programming Alternatives Work?

April 5, 2022

Do Harm Reduction Practices Help People Stop Using Drugs?

February 2, 2022

Preventing Substance Misuse Continues to be a Top Priority in Los Angeles County

February 2, 2022

Looking to Empower Staff in 2022? Four Steps to Implementing a Peer Mentoring Program

December 1, 2021

Unleashing the Power of Prevention: Looking Forward, Public Policy is the Answer to High Health Care Costs

December 1, 2021

IPS Wins Sierra Health Foundation Grant

December 1, 2021

Transgender Remembrance Day, November 20

November 19, 2021

Immigration is Mutually Beneficial. When will Americans Learn this Lesson?

October 15, 2021

Our Right to Protest is Under Assault

October 12, 2021

Alcohol is Hurting Women

October 12, 2021

Fact or Fiction

Misinformation About COVID-19 is a Crime that Should Have Consequences

September 27, 2021

Vaccination is Our Best Path to Ending the COVID-19 Pandemic

August 24, 2021

Institute for Public Strategies to Present Community Power and Equity Case Study at APHA Annual Conference

August 24, 2021

Five Youth Engagement Strategies that Work (Even During a Pandemic)

August 24, 2021

We’ve Overcome Stigma and Prejudice, Now Let’s Overcome Drugs and Alcohol

June 29, 2021

Why We as Asian Americans Need to Step Up and Speak Out About Important Issues More Often

May 24, 2021

I Am a Change-Maker in My Community and Here’s My Story

April 27, 2021

IPS wins Los Angeles County Department of Public Health grant to combat dangers of second hand smoke in multi-housing units

April 27, 2021

Chula Vista Downtown

IPS community organizer appointed to Chula Vista Redistricting Commission and high school district bond oversight committee

February 9, 2021

Wear a Mask for 100 Days: How President Biden’s call to action can restore America’s faith in public health

February 9, 2021

Black Vaccine Hesitancy Stems from a Long History of Medical Racism

February 9, 2021

Advancing Equity Examples

Institute for Public Strategies announces the addition of two new board members

December 22, 2020

Looking to 2021 Through a New Lens

December 10, 2020

Up in Smoke: Marijuana is Erasing Decades of Progress Toward Smoke-Free Environments

December 1, 2020

Substance Abuse Is A Public Health Issue, Yet Sketchy Policies Have Ruined Many POC Lives

November 12, 2020

IPS to present on community transformation model, GIS as an equity indicator at the APHA’s prestigious annual conference

October 21, 2020

Focus Areas

Institute for Public Strategies unveils next generation vision, mission, core values under new CEO/President

October 13, 2020

Covid-19 Effects Election

Voters are Being Disenfranchised During COVID. What Can We Do About It?

October 8, 2020

Census Buttons

Think the census is no big deal? Think again.

August 18, 2020

Geospacial Solutions

Transform Communities Using Geospatial Solutions

August 5, 2020

Social Justice

5 Questions that Incorporate Racial Equity into Public Policy – Part 2

July 30, 2020

P4S GIS

Geographic information systems helping southwest U.S. Mexico border residents improve health and safety

July 22, 2020

Social Justice

5 Questions That Incorporate Racial Equity Into Public Policy – Part I

July 15, 2020

Tramatized Child

Positive Childhood Experiences Can Combat Traumatic Effects of COVID-19

July 14, 2020

Media Advocacy

Controlling a Media Interview

July 7, 2020

Allies

Businesses and Public Health: Allies, Not Adversaries

July 7, 2020

GIS in Public Health

The Role of GIS in Public Health

June 24, 2020

Equitable Housing

Equitable Housing: A Place-Based Solution to Racism

June 22, 2020

GIS Disparities

How GIS Exposed Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in San Diego’s South Bay

June 18, 2020

Grocery Worker

Essential Workers Risk their Lives and We Benefit. What Can We Do in Return?

May 13, 2020

Covid-19

Has COVID-19 Evened the Playing Field?

April 21, 2020

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