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Community land trusts
Purchase the land a home is on to lease to homeowners with low and middle incomes and require homeowners to sell the home back to the trust or to another resident with low income upon moving
Community policing
Implement a policing philosophy based on community partnership, organizational transformation, and problem solving techniques to proactively address public safety issues: also called community-oriented policing
Community schools
Combine academic, mental and physical health, and social service resources in schools for students and families via partnerships with community organizations; also called community learning centers
Community supported agriculture (CSA)
Establish partnerships between farmers and consumers in which consumers purchase a share of a farm’s products in advance
Community water fluoridation
Adjust and monitor fluoride levels in public water supplies to reach and retain optimal fluoride concentrations
Community weight loss challenges
Support temporary programs that work to energize participants to lose weight via prizes, often combined with education, weight status and food intake tracking, regular check-ins, and group support
Community-based interventions for human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination
Support HPV vaccination through multi-component community interventions, including education, outreach, navigation support, and vaccine provision
Community-based social support for physical activity
Build, strengthen, and maintain social networks that provide supportive relationships for behavior change through walking groups or other community-based interventions
Community-wide physical activity campaigns
Engage a variety of partners in a highly visible, multi-component effort to increase physical activity, often with efforts to address cardiovascular disease risk factors
Competitive pricing for healthy foods
Assign higher costs to non-nutritious foods than nutritious foods via incentives, subsidies, or price discounts for healthy foods and beverages or disincentives or price increases for unhealthy choices