Strategies

Provide education and training sessions with parent-child activities and family meals for youth, parents, and care providers

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

Make health care facilities’ health care-associated or hospital-acquired infection (HAI) rates readily available to patients and providers

Implement private sector rules or public sector regulations that prohibit smoking in and around multi-unit housing

Implement private sector rules or public sector regulations that prohibit smoking outdoors or restrict it to designated areas

Establish state level regulations that require nursing homes to employ at least a set number of licensed and non-licensed nursing staff, often set in terms of staff hours per resident day