Strategies

Provide preschool education and comprehensive support to families with low incomes, including small classes, student meals, and home visits with referrals for social service support as needed

Provide child care, parent education, physical health and mental health services, and other family supports to pregnant women and parents with low incomes and children aged 0 to 3

Use broad media-based efforts to educate large groups of current and potential tobacco users about the dangers of tobacco use

Provide center-based programs that support cognitive and social-emotional growth among children who are not old enough to enter formal schooling

Provide sterile injection equipment and often other treatment and referral services to people who inject drugs; also called needle or syringe exchange programs and needle syringe programs