Strategies

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

5 Strategies matching covid-19
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Community arts programs

Support locally-based visual, media, and performing arts initiatives for children and adults; also called participatory arts programs
Evidence Rating:
Expert Opinion

Community Conditions

  • Civic and community resources

Community centers

Provide space to promote socializing among community members and offer programs and services such as recreational or educational activities, counseling or support services
Evidence Rating:
Expert Opinion

Community Conditions

  • Civic and community resources

Open Streets

Allow community members to gather, socialize, walk, run, bike, skate, etc. on streets temporarily to closed to motorized traffic; also called Ciclovía programs
Evidence Rating:
Expert Opinion

Community Conditions

  • Diet and exercise
  • Civic and community resources
  • Climate

Participatory budgeting

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

Community Conditions

  • Civic and community resources

Societal Rules

  • Budgets
  • Governance

Trauma-informed approaches to community building

Support and strengthen traumatized and distressed residents and communities and address effects of community trauma (e.g., poverty, violence, structural racism, etc.) via a comprehensive, multi-stakeholder, and multilevel approach
Evidence Rating:
Expert Opinion

Community Conditions

  • Civic and community resources

Societal Rules

  • Institutional practices
  • Worldviews, culture and norms