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 Community Members Funders Housing and Transit Tobacco Use Some Evidence Create environments that support learning Ensure sports & recreation safety Prevent intimate partner violence Air and Water Quality Community Safety Education Employment Clear all Bookmark this strategy Helmets in collision sports Use helmets to absorb, dissipate, and reduce impact forces to an athlete’s head and brain during collisions or falls Evidence Rating: Some Evidence Community Safety Bookmark this strategy Later middle and high school start times Delay school start times for middle and high schools to better align with adolescent sleep-wake cycles; often until after 8:30 or 9:00 a.m. Evidence Rating: Some Evidence Education Bookmark this strategy School-based intimate partner violence prevention programs Provide youth with teen dating violence education that addresses healthy relationships, gender norms, relationship coercion, and violence in a school setting Evidence Rating: Some Evidence Community Safety Bookmark this strategy Universal school-based suicide awareness & education programs Deliver a curriculum-based program that helps all students learn to recognize warning signs of suicide in themselves and others in a school setting Evidence Rating: Some Evidence Education
Bookmark this strategy Helmets in collision sports Use helmets to absorb, dissipate, and reduce impact forces to an athlete’s head and brain during collisions or falls Evidence Rating: Some Evidence Community Safety
Bookmark this strategy Later middle and high school start times Delay school start times for middle and high schools to better align with adolescent sleep-wake cycles; often until after 8:30 or 9:00 a.m. Evidence Rating: Some Evidence Education
Bookmark this strategy School-based intimate partner violence prevention programs Provide youth with teen dating violence education that addresses healthy relationships, gender norms, relationship coercion, and violence in a school setting Evidence Rating: Some Evidence Community Safety
Bookmark this strategy Universal school-based suicide awareness & education programs Deliver a curriculum-based program that helps all students learn to recognize warning signs of suicide in themselves and others in a school setting Evidence Rating: Some Evidence Education