Injury & Violence Prevention INdepth
Injury & Violence Prevention INdepth is a podcast brought to you by Safe States Alliance staff and members to discuss and share injury and violence prevention (IVP) topics and trends. Each episode is a conversation between host, Mighty Fine, and featured IVP professionals who are members or partners of our organization. We come together to discuss the basics of injury and violence prevention, but also the tough topics that relate to anti-racism, health equity and more.
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Episodes
40 episodes
Making the Case for Supporting a Homeless Shelter
Host Mighty Fine and guest Dianah McGreehan explore how to make the case for converting a building into a homeless shelter. Together, they discuss strategies to address community concerns, navigate "not in my backyard" opposition, and build sup...
Making the Case for Championing a Hospital IVP Program
Host Mighty Fine and guest Pualani Vazquez explore how to make the case for investing in a hospital injury and violence prevention (IVP) program. Together, they discuss strategies for demonstrating the value of IVP programs beyond certification...
Making the Case for Partnering on Research
Host Mighty Fine and guest Josephine Peterson explore how to make the case for partnering on a pedestrian safety research project. Together, they discuss strategies for building trust with community members, approaching initial conversations, a...
Making the Case for Bystander Intervention Training
Host Mighty Fine and guest Micaela Harris explore how to make the case for bystander intervention training with student leaders. Together, they discuss strategies for balancing compelling stories with meaningful data, addressing common misconce...
Making the Case for Community Health Benefit Dollars
Host Mighty Fine and guest Paige Colburn-Hargis explore how to make the case for dedicating community health benefit resources to a drowning prevention and water safety program. Together, they discuss strategies for demonstrating community need...
Special Edition - Safe States 2025 Annual Conference
In this episode, host Mighty Fine is live with attendees at the Safe States 2025 Annual Conference held virtually this year. Hear how they are "Rising Up and Branching Out" in their injury and violence prevention work through networking, ...
Innovative Approaches to Injury and Violence Prevention Through Safe States Seed Grants
In this episode, host Mighty Fine along with cohost Deltavier Robertson speak with guests from the Future Healers program from Kentucky and Sources of Strength program from Wisconsin that received seed grants from Safe States this year for inju...
Rising Up, Branching Out - Safe States 2025 Conference Preview
In this INbetween episode, host Mighty Fine provides some insight into the upcoming "Virtual" Safe States Annual Conference which will be held September 9-11, 2025 online using the Whova app. Participants can expect an agenda packed full of ses...
Increasing Partnerships & Possibilities through Upstream Prevention
In this episode, host Mighty Fine talks with Safe States staff Eva Bland and Catherine Guerrero about the upstream prevention work happening among Safe States members. Also, they share resources available on the Safe States website to assist th...
Hope in the Data: The CDC's Role in Preventing Overdose
In this episode, Safe States Executive Director Sharon Gilmartin is the guest host and talks with Allison Arwady, Director of the CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. To kick off the conversation, Dr. Arwady shares that the ...
Strengthening Common Ground in Tribal Health
In this episode, host Mighty Fine talks with guests Christina Ore from Seven Directions and Chris Tallbear from the National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI) about the collaborative work they are doing through their public health inf...
Hope During a Public Health Crisis
Host Mighty Fine talks with guest Jessica Ritter about the despair and hope many working in public health are feeling following the April 2025 cuts to the CDC and HHS workforce. Jessica references different resources she has found h...
Advocacy In Action - Advocacy Day 2025
In this episode, guest hosts Sharon Gilmartin, Safe States Executive Director, and Paul Bonta, Director of Government Relations, discuss Advocacy Day, which took place on March 20, 2025. Paul shares why it is so important for Safe States member...
Utilizing Policy Resources to Empower Impactful Change in IVP
In this INbetween episode, host Mighty Fine talks about policy tools and resources available on the Safe States website (www.safestates.org). These include funding briefs, Congressional priorities, and other resources available to individuals t...
Exploring AI's Role in IVP
In this episode, host Mighty Fine talks with Tracy Mehan, Director of Research Translation and Communication, about artificial intelligence (AI) and how individuals use it every day, whether we realize it or not, in our work and lives. She prov...
Continuing Success through Succession - Safe States' Next Steps
In this very special episode, host Mighty Fine sat down with Rich Hamburg, Safe States' Executive Director, and Sharon Gilmartin, Safe States' Deputy Director. They discussed the upcoming leadership transition as Rich retires at the end of Dece...
Special Edition - Safe States 2024 Annual Conference
In this episode, host Mighty Fine is live at the 2024 Annual Conference in Portland, Oregon, asking participants how they are "blazing trails in injury and violence prevention," following the conference's theme.
ISM's and IVP - Moving beyond Awareness to Action
Some may think that "ism's" - sexism, racism, classism, ableism, ageism, nationalism, etc. don't have anything to do with injury and violence prevention (IVP). On the contrary - they have everything to do with IVP. ...
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...
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 violenc...
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 virt...
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 preventio...
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...
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 the...