Injury & Violence Prevention INdepth

Send us Fan Mail 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, attending sessions and getting involved during the three day conference held September 9-11 online. Guests include: Lisa Roth, Deputy...

Send us Fan Mail 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 injury and violence prevention programming.  The Future Healers program is focused on building stronger bridges between the Louisville health c...

Send us Fan Mail 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 sessions, activities, networking opportunities, gameification and so much more. Listen in to hear Mighty share some of the details a...

Send us Fan Mail 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 those working on upstream prevention work. RESOURCES: https://www.safestates.org/page/MappingOutIVP https://www.safestates.org/page/Connectio...

Send us Fan Mail 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 CDC has recently released 2024 provisional drug overdose death data that highlights a nearly 27% decrease in predicted deaths from the...

Send us Fan Mail 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 infrastructure grant funding received from the CDC. This work, in partnership with Safe States Alliance, is allowing them to provide opioid ov...

Send us Fan Mail 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 helpful: "Learning from the 60's" in Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde "Feminist Survival Project" podcast by Emily Nagoski, espe...

Send us Fan Mail 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 members and partners to participate in Advocacy Day, especially this year. Christa Thelen, Safe States Program Manager, interviews participants a...

Send us Fan Mail 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 to assist in advocacy efforts in their IVP work. As Safe States gears up for Advocacy Day on March 20, 2025 - these tools and resources will...

Send us Fan Mail 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 provides insights and examples of AI use in injury and violence prevention (IVP) work while also giving some tips and recommendations on what t...

Send us Fan Mail 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 December 2024 and Sharon takes on the Executive Director role in January 2025. Rich shares some words of wisdom and we hear some futu...

Send us Fan Mail 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.

Send us Fan Mail 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.  In this episode, host Mighty Fine talks with Jessica Ritter (she/they), a Certified Nonprofit Professional who has been working to improve public h...

Send us Fan Mail 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 share about their projects that have received seed grant funding through Safe States. Both projects focus on equity and provide opportunit...

Send us Fan Mail 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 violence prevention are provided in this resource, and Mighty shares his thoughts - encouraging  listeners to utilize this resource and...

Send us Fan Mail 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 virtually using online tools available to assist in the process. Guests include: Paul Bonta, Senior Policy Consultant Safe States Alliance Mari...

Send us Fan Mail 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 prevention work to increase awareness and educate on prevention of this important issue facing teens and families. 

Send us Fan Mail 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 Nation. It is comprised of a multidisciplinary team tasked with developing a framework to establish a Missing & Murdered Diné Relative...

Send us Fan Mail 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.

Send us Fan Mail 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 their work in building equity into their programming. We learn that youth are not just the future, they are very much the present and their vo...

Send us Fan Mail In this INbetween episode, host Mighty Fine shares with listeners his thoughts about disparities within maternal and child health. Factors related to drug overdose, COVID-19 and quality of care are having a negative effect on mothers and babies that needs increased attention and focus among injury and violence prevention professionals.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, host Mighty Fine talks with Kristi Ladowski, an Injury Prevention & Outreach Coordinator for Stony Brook Trauma Center in NY. In addition to coordinating health promotion programs, she is currently working on her PhD in Public Health with her research focused on older adult falls prevention program implementation and sustainability. In this episode Kristi shar...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, host Mighty Fine sits down with several IVP professionals to discuss their unique roles and rich experiences as an IVP professional. Featured guests include: Beatriz Menanteau is a human rights and public health attorney. As Supervisor to the Minnesota Department of Health’s (MDH) Violence Prevention Programs Unit, she oversees efforts to change systems that perpe...

Send us Fan Mail During the Safe States 2022 Annual Conference held August 31 - September 2 in Orlando, Florida host Mighty Fine had a chance to meet up with attendees and chat "in person"! Hear from our members what it's like being back in person for our Annual Conference after a 3 year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, what benefits they were getting out of the conference and e...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, host Mighty Fine talks with Tony Gomez, Manager of Violence and Injury  Prevention at the Public Health - Seattle and King County Health Department in the first segment. Following that, Mighty speaks with Morag McKay, Director of Research and Network at Safe Kids Worldwide and also the chair of the steering committee overseeing the development of a US National Wat...