Strategies What Works for Health includes evidence-informed strategies to create communities where everyone can thrive. SORT BY A-ZBest MatchNewest VIEW 102550 4 Strategies Insufficient Evidence Mixed Evidence Housing and Transit Quality of Care Sexual Activity Tobacco Use Evidence of Ineffectiveness Assist youth involved with the justice system Build social capital within communities Increase worker employability Reduce HIVSTIs Community Safety Employment Family and Social Support 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 Grocery, housing & utilities cooperatives Establish a non-share capital cooperative model in which fee-paying members can share the communal resources of a grocery, house, or utility cooperative Evidence Rating: Insufficient Evidence Family and Social Support 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 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 Ban the Box Prohibit criminal history questions on job applications and postpone background checks Evidence Rating: Mixed Evidence Employment
Bookmark this strategy Grocery, housing & utilities cooperatives Establish a non-share capital cooperative model in which fee-paying members can share the communal resources of a grocery, house, or utility cooperative Evidence Rating: Insufficient Evidence Family and Social Support
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 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