Work to empower victims of intimate partner violence, help them with safety plans, and link them with community services (e.g., legal, housing, financial advice, emergency shelter, etc.)
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Policies and programs that can improve health
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Advocacy for victims of intimate partner violence
Alternative fuels initiatives
Support alternative fuel and vehicle use via financial incentives (e.g., tax benefits, rebates, etc.), mandates (e.g., consumption targets or renewable fuel standards), research and development investments, etc.
Attendance interventions for chronically absent students
Support interventions that provide chronically absent students with resources to improve self-esteem, social skills, etc. and address familial and school-related factors that can contribute to poor attendance
Behavioral interventions to prevent HIV and other STIs
Use individual, group, and community-level interventions to provide education, support, and training that can affect social norms about HIV and other STIs
CenteringPregnancy
Provide prenatal care in a group setting, integrating health assessment, education, and support
Charter schools
Establish publicly financed schools that are not subject to many of the regulations that govern traditional public schools, such as staffing, curriculum, and budgeting requirements
Chicago Child-Parent Centers
Provide preschool education and comprehensive support to low income families, including small classes, student meals, and home visits with referrals for social service support as needed
Child care subsidies
Provide financial assistance to working parents, or parents attending school, to pay for center-based or certified in-home child care
Child development accounts
Establish dedicated child development accounts (CDAs) to build assets over time with contributions from family, friends, and sometimes, supporting organizations; also called children’s savings accounts (CSAs)
College access programs
Help underrepresented students prepare academically for college, complete applications, and enroll, especially first generation applicants and students from low income families
Community centers
Support community venues that facilitate local residents’ efforts to socialize, participate in recreational or educational activities, gain information, and seek counseling or support services
Community gardens
Establish and support land that is gardened or cultivated by community members via community land trusts, gardening education, zoning regulation changes, or service provision (e.g., water or waste disposal)
Community kitchens for food processing
Establish shared kitchen spaces that support licensed, commercial food processing and connect specialty food processors, farmers, and others who produce value-added goods
Cure Violence Health model
Detect and intervene in potentially violent situations, educate and mobilize communities, and connect high-risk individuals to services; formerly called Chicago CeaseFire
DARE to be You
Provide education and training sessions with parent-child activities and family meals for youth, parents, and care providers
Designated driver promotion programs
Encourage use of designated drivers via population-based mass media campaigns, incentive programs based in drinking establishments, and other efforts
Dropout prevention programs
Provide supports such as mentoring, counseling, or vocational training, or undertake school environment changes to help students complete high school
Dropout prevention programs for teen mothers
Provide teen mothers with services such as remedial education, vocational training, case management, health care, child care, and transportation assistance to support high school completion
Early childhood home visiting programs
Provide at-risk expectant parents and families with young children with information, support, and training regarding child health, development, and care from prenatal stages through early childhood via trained home visitors
Electronic Benefit Transfer payment at farmers markets
Enable farmers markets to accept EBT, the electronic payment system of debit cards used to issue and redeem Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits
Families and Schools Together
Convene small groups of families for facilitated weekly meetings that include a family meal, structured activities, parent support time, and parent-child play therapy
Farm to school programs
Incorporate locally grown foods into school meals and snacks, often with visits from food producers, cooking classes, nutrition and waste reduction efforts, and school gardens
Farmers markets
Support multiple vendor markets where producers sell goods such as fresh fruit and vegetables, meat, dairy items, and prepared foods directly to consumers
Father involvement programs
Support fathers’ active involvement in child rearing via various father-focused or family-focused interventions
Financial education for adults
Provide one-on-one or group adult education programs that cover topics such as basic budgeting, bank use, credit management, bankruptcy, credit building and counseling, homeownership, retirement, divorce, etc.
Green space & parks
Increase recreational green space through new parks or open spaces, renovation or enhancement of under-used recreation areas, rehabilitation of vacant lots, brownfields, etc.
Health literacy interventions
Increase patients’ health-related knowledge via efforts to simplify health education materials, improve patient-provider communication, and increase overall literacy
Healthy school lunch initiatives
Modify the school lunch food environment by prominently displaying, marketing, and increasing the convenience of healthy foods and providing healthy options
HighScope Perry Preschool model
Provided high quality preschool with home visiting to low income, African-American children with an emphasis on active learning in Ypsilanti, Michigan
Intensive case management for pregnant & parenting teens
Provide pregnant or parenting teens with services based upon their needs (e.g., counseling, connections to health care or social services, academic support, etc.) in school or community settings
Intergenerational communities
Create communities that promote interaction and cooperation between individuals of different ages and focus on the needs of all residents, especially children and older adults
Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) in middle schools
Emphasize high expectations for all students, parent and student commitment, empowered principals, and regular student assessments that inform continuous improvement in a lengthened school-year and school-day
Long-acting reversible contraception access
Increase access to LARCs through cost reduction, comprehensive birth control counseling, provider training, efforts to ensure availability at local clinics, etc.
Mass media campaigns against alcohol-impaired driving
Use mass media campaigns to persuade individuals to avoid drinking and driving or to prevent others from doing so; campaigns often focus on fear of arrest or injury to self, others, or property
Mass media campaigns against tobacco use
Use broad media-based efforts to educate large groups of current and potential tobacco users about the dangers of tobacco use
Mass media campaigns against underage & binge drinking
Use television, radio, print, and social media efforts to increase adult awareness of underage drinking and its consequences
Mass media campaigns for physical activity
Provide messages that support physical activity to large and broad audiences using newspapers, radio, television, and billboards
Medical homes
Provide continuous, comprehensive, whole person primary care that uses a coordinated team of medical providers across the health care system
Medical-legal partnerships
Integrate legal services into health care settings to address legal issues that affect health (e.g., housing, food, utilities); services provided by private practice lawyers, law students, etc.
Mentoring programs for high school graduation
Establish programs that connect at-risk students with trained adult volunteers who provide ongoing guidance for academic and personal challenges
Mentoring programs: delinquency
Enlist mentors to develop relationships and spend time individually with at-risk mentees for an extended period; mentors have greater knowledge, skills, etc. than mentees
Mobile markets
Support fresh food carts or vehicles that travel to neighborhoods on a set schedule to sell fresh fruits and vegetables
Multi-component community interventions against alcohol-impaired driving
Work to reduce alcohol-impaired driving via sobriety checkpoints, responsible beverage service training, education and awareness activities, and other efforts
New grocery stores in underserved areas
Attract new grocery stores that sell a variety of fresh foods, baked goods, packaged, and frozen items to underserved areas via financing initiatives or zoning regulation
Open Streets
Allow community members to gather, socialize, walk, run, bike, skate, etc. by closing selected streets temporarily to motorized traffic; also called Ciclovía programs
Parents as Teachers (PAT)
Support home visits that teach parents about early childhood development and effective parenting strategies, with child development screenings, parental meetings, and links to community resources
Permeable pavement projects
Use pervious concrete, porous asphalt, permeable interlocking pavers, open-jointed blocks or cells, or other permeable pavement in individual or commercial development efforts; also called porous or pervious pavement
Price transparency initiatives for patients
Make pricing for hospital procedures and other health care services publicly available, often via websites, online databases, report cards, or similar tools
Public transportation systems
Introduce or expand transportation options that are available to the public and run on a scheduled timetable (e.g., buses, trains, ferries, rapid transit, etc.)
Rain gardens & other bioretention systems
Establish bioretention systems (e.g., rain gardens, bioretention cells, green roofs, planter boxes, bioswales, etc.) to make city landscapes more permeable