Strategies

Support acquisition of job-specific skills through education, certification programs, or on-the-job training, often with personal development resources and other supports

Provide information and increase motivation to change or prevent problematic alcohol consumption in a short session; also called alcohol screening & brief intervention

Prohibit criminal history questions on job applications and postpone background checks

Provide financial assistance to working parents, or parents attending school, to pay for child care

Provide at-risk expectant parents and families with young children with information, support, and training regarding child health, development, and care from prenatal stages through early childhood via trained home visitors

Support organized social, art, or physical activities for school-aged youth outside of the school time

Organize workers to bargain collectively for improved wages, benefits, and working conditions

Distribute Naloxone to trained community members and first responders to reverse opioid overdoses

Engage community members to determine how public budgets are spent, ideally to improve neighborhood conditions and reduce inequality.

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