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Publicly funded pre-kindergarten programs
Provide publicly funded pre-kindergarten (pre-K) education to 3- and 4-year-olds, through large-scale or universal efforts
Public-Private Partnerships: A Commitment to Improve Health
Public-private partnerships play a critical role in mobilizing community health through building, enhancing, and sustaining county policies and programs. During a panel discussion at the National Association of Counties (NACo) Roadmaps to Health Forum held in Madison, Wisconsin, participants were able to examine that role with panelists...
Radon mitigation programs
Prevent radon from entering occupied buildings and reduce existing indoor air radon levels via soil depressurization, home or room pressurization, heat recovery ventilation, etc.
Rain barrels
Use ready-made or home constructed barrel systems to collect and store rainwater from rooftops that would otherwise flow to storm drains and streams
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 to help control stormwater
Raise the Age
Increase the minimum and/or maximum age boundaries for youth to be processed in the juvenile justice system
Rankings in Action Webinar: Fit City Challenge in Smith County, Texas
A partnership between the Northeast Texas Public Health District and a local newspaper has grown into a community-wide movement to tackle one of the nation’s greatest health challenges—obesity.
The Tyler Morning Telegraph plays a key role in promoting the Fit City Challenge, a local initiative to foster healthy, active living in Tyler and the rest of East Texas.
Rankings Launch Day 2013: Join a Teleconference and Twitter Q&A
Are you excited for this week’s 2013 County Health Rankings release? So are we! Join us for a teleconference and Twitter Q&A on Wednesday, March 20 to celebrate our fourth annual County Health Rankings.
TELECONFERENCE
Among the topics to be discussed: How counties measure up within...
Rankings release can be a wake-up call for counties
Next month our 2016 Rankings will be released, giving counties across the country updated pictures of their community health. What do communities do with this news? Some, such as Laramie County, Wyoming, and...
Rankings Research Grants-Q&A Now Available
A summary of the teleconference discussing the County Health Rankings Call for Proposals for Research Grants is now available along with an audio recording.
Brief proposals are due Monday, November 19, 2012.