Strategies

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

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Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits

Explore ways to increase Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program benefit amounts for aged, blind, or disabled individuals, including children, with little or no income

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  • Income

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

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  • Family and Social Support

Trauma-informed health care

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

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  • Quality of Care

Universal basic income

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

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  • Income