Strategies

Involve consumers in health care governance via roles on governing boards, advisory committees, or shorter-term special projects

Improve work environments for nurses via establishment of strong nursing leadership, organizational support, etc.

Provide students from public schools, from low income backgrounds, or who have a high risk of dropping out and their families with information about social services and health care supports; also called community resource or family and community liaisons

Shift the way health care organizations approach trauma by adopting universal trauma precautions and providing trauma-specific care