Strategies

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

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Trauma-informed juvenile justice systems

Support a trauma-informed juvenile justice system to recognize and respond to trauma’s impact on youth through staff training and broad adoption of trauma-informed practices and policies
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Community Conditions

  • Safety and social support

Societal Rules

  • Institutional practices

Universal basic income

Provide all individuals with regular cash transfers, without conditions, over their lifetimes
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Expert Opinion

Community Conditions

  • Income, employment and wealth

Societal Rules

  • Laws and policies
  • Worldviews, culture and norms

Urban agriculture

Support food-producing and income-earning activities in urban environments (e.g., edible landscapes, front yard or rooftop gardens, window farming, hydroponics, livestock, etc.)
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Expert Opinion

Community Conditions

  • Diet and exercise
  • Climate
  • Civic and community resources

Youth apprenticeship initiatives

Provide participating high school students with professional opportunities that combine academic and on-the-job training or mentorship
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Community Conditions

  • Income, employment and wealth

Youth football full contact rules

Restrict full contact between youth football players via limits to the number of contact practices, head hits per player, delay tackling until a certain age, etc.
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Expert Opinion

Community Conditions

  • Safety and social support

Zoning regulations for chickens and bees

Allow residents to keep chickens and bees within city or municipality limits
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Expert Opinion

Community Conditions

  • Diet and exercise

Societal Rules

  • Laws and policies

Zoning regulations for fast food

Limit or ban fast food outlets in areas of a city, restrict the number or density of outlets, or regulate distance between fast food outlets and other sites (e.g., schools)
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Expert Opinion

Community Conditions

  • Diet and exercise

Societal Rules

  • Laws and policies