Strategies What Works for Health includes evidence-informed strategies to create communities where everyone can thrive. SORT BY A-ZBest MatchNewest VIEW 102550 5 Strategies Some Evidence Mixed Evidence Housing and Transit Income Sexual Activity Tobacco Use Evidence of Ineffectiveness Assist youth involved with the justice system Reduce risky sexual behavior Air and Water Quality Alcohol and Drug Use Community Safety Diet and Exercise Education Clear all Bookmark this strategy Mass media and social marketing campaigns to prevent HIV and other STIs Use traditional and digital media to disseminate information about safe sex Evidence Rating: Some Evidence Sexual Activity Bookmark this strategy Multi-component interventions to prevent teen pregnancy Support initiatives that combine multiple components such as education, skills building, and contraceptive promotion to reduce pregnancy among youth Evidence Rating: Some Evidence Sexual Activity Bookmark this strategy School or community-based abstinence-only education Promote abstinence from sexual activity, generally only with mention of condoms and birth control to highlight failure rates Evidence Rating: Mixed Evidence Sexual Activity Bookmark this strategy Treatment Foster Care Place youth with mental, emotional, and behavioral health challenges in foster families that provide a structured, nurturing, therapeutic environment; also called Therapeutic Foster Care (TFC) Evidence Rating: Some Evidence Community Safety Bookmark this strategy Youth in adult justice system Transfer arrested youth from the juvenile justice system to the adult criminal justice system Evidence Rating: Evidence of Ineffectiveness Community Safety
Bookmark this strategy Mass media and social marketing campaigns to prevent HIV and other STIs Use traditional and digital media to disseminate information about safe sex Evidence Rating: Some Evidence Sexual Activity
Bookmark this strategy Multi-component interventions to prevent teen pregnancy Support initiatives that combine multiple components such as education, skills building, and contraceptive promotion to reduce pregnancy among youth Evidence Rating: Some Evidence Sexual Activity
Bookmark this strategy School or community-based abstinence-only education Promote abstinence from sexual activity, generally only with mention of condoms and birth control to highlight failure rates Evidence Rating: Mixed Evidence Sexual Activity
Bookmark this strategy Treatment Foster Care Place youth with mental, emotional, and behavioral health challenges in foster families that provide a structured, nurturing, therapeutic environment; also called Therapeutic Foster Care (TFC) Evidence Rating: Some Evidence Community Safety
Bookmark this strategy Youth in adult justice system Transfer arrested youth from the juvenile justice system to the adult criminal justice system Evidence Rating: Evidence of Ineffectiveness Community Safety