Strategies What Works for Health includes evidence-informed strategies to create communities where everyone can thrive. SORT BY A-ZBest MatchNewest VIEW 102550 6 Strategies Community Members Educators Tobacco Use Insufficient Evidence Mixed Evidence Air and Water Quality Community Safety Employment Family and Social Support Housing and Transit Sexual Activity Clear all Bookmark this strategy Ban the Box Prohibit criminal history questions on job applications and postpone background checks Evidence Rating: Mixed Evidence Employment Bookmark this strategy HIV and STI interventions coordinated with work, vocational training, or sports for youth Coordinate efforts to reduce risky sexual behavior among adolescents with work, vocational training, or sports Evidence Rating: Insufficient Evidence Sexual Activity Bookmark this strategy Housing mediation services Facilitate mediation between tenants and landlords to resolve conflict and prevent eviction Evidence Rating: Insufficient Evidence Housing and Transit Bookmark this strategy Participatory budgeting Engage community members to determine how public budgets are spent, ideally to improve neighborhood conditions and reduce inequality. Evidence Rating: Mixed Evidence Family and Social Support 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 Sports-related concussion education Educate youth and college athletes, coaches, and parents about the severity of concussions in sports, proper prevention, detection, reporting, and treatment Evidence Rating: Insufficient Evidence Community Safety
Bookmark this strategy Ban the Box Prohibit criminal history questions on job applications and postpone background checks Evidence Rating: Mixed Evidence Employment
Bookmark this strategy HIV and STI interventions coordinated with work, vocational training, or sports for youth Coordinate efforts to reduce risky sexual behavior among adolescents with work, vocational training, or sports Evidence Rating: Insufficient Evidence Sexual Activity
Bookmark this strategy Housing mediation services Facilitate mediation between tenants and landlords to resolve conflict and prevent eviction Evidence Rating: Insufficient Evidence Housing and Transit
Bookmark this strategy Participatory budgeting Engage community members to determine how public budgets are spent, ideally to improve neighborhood conditions and reduce inequality. Evidence Rating: Mixed Evidence Family and Social Support
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 Sports-related concussion education Educate youth and college athletes, coaches, and parents about the severity of concussions in sports, proper prevention, detection, reporting, and treatment Evidence Rating: Insufficient Evidence Community Safety