Minnesota Institute of Public Health

The role of prevention professionals is to promote health by informing, educating and organizing communities on issues of concern, and developing and following a plan to prevent and reduce harm.  MIPH recognizes that prevention professionals’ backgrounds vary and that they work in many different settings.  For nearly four decades prevention professionals have relied on MIPH to provide research-based information, technical assistance, consultation and training.  The scope of our experience is wide and includes, but is not limited to:

Prevention Planning - The development of a prevention plan is important in family programs, school programs and community programs.  Prevention professionals can help guide efforts in selecting the best prevention programs for their community and in providing the best strategies for putting them into effect.  With assistance from professionals, parents, educators and community leaders can work together to plan how, when and where to carry out programs.

Prevention Program Delivery - If programs are adapted to match the needs or norms of a community, or responding to differing cultural requirements, they should retain core elements of the original research-based intervention.

These core elements include:

•    Structure (how the program is organized and constructed);
•    Content (the information, skills, and strategies of the program); and
•    Delivery (how the program is adapted, implemented, and evaluated.)