Strategies

What Works for Health includes evidence-informed strategies to create communities where everyone can thrive.

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DARE to be You

Provide education and training sessions with parent-child activities and family meals for youth, parents, and care providers
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Expert Opinion

Community Conditions

  • Education
  • Safety and social support

Designated driver promotion programs

Encourage use of designated drivers via population-based mass media campaigns, incentive programs based in drinking establishments, and other efforts
Evidence Rating:
Insufficient Evidence

Community Conditions

  • Alcohol and drug use

E-cigarette regulations

Regulate use of e-cigarettes via age, sales and marketing restrictions, expanded smoke-free air policies in public and private worksites and designated spaces, etc.
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Expert Opinion

Community Conditions

  • Tobacco use

Societal Rules

  • Laws and policies

Electronic Benefit Transfer payment at farmers markets

Enable farmers markets to accept EBT, the electronic payment system of debit cards used to issue and redeem Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits
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Expert Opinion

Community Conditions

  • Diet and exercise

Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) laws

Restrict firearm access for individuals who are at risk of harming themselves or others by petitioning a civil court for an extreme risk protection order
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Expert Opinion

Community Conditions

  • Safety and social support

Societal Rules

  • Laws and policies

Faith community nursing

Position registered nurses within a parish or similar faith community, or in a health care system to serve as a liaison to congregations; also called parish nursing or congregational nursing
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Community Conditions

  • Clinical care

Financial incentives for new nursing faculty

Offer loan repayment, tuition assistance, competitive academic salaries, etc. to students who teach in nursing programs after completing an advanced degree
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Expert Opinion

Community Conditions

  • Clinical care

Societal Rules

  • Budgets

Food buying clubs & co-ops

Offer opportunities for group purchase and distribution of selected grocery items, generally at a reduced price
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Community Conditions

  • Diet and exercise
  • Climate
  • Civic and community resources

Food hubs

Support businesses or organizations that aggregate, distribute, and market local and regional food products (e.g., fresh fruits and vegetables, meat, dairy, grains, and prepared items)
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Community Conditions

  • Diet and exercise
  • Climate
  • Civic and community resources

Fruit & vegetable gleaning initiatives

Gather food left in fields after a primary harvest, food in fields where harvesting is not profitable, or excess produce from orchards, packing houses, urban agriculture sites, etc.
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Expert Opinion

Community Conditions

  • Diet and exercise
  • Climate