CDC Healthy Communities Program

Through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Healthy Communities Program, communities are working to reduce chronic diseases by changing the places and organizations that touch people’s lives every day. The program’s tools for community action include:

• A Guide to Community Preventive Services, offering science-based recommendations and findings on strategies and policies that improve health and prevent disease in communities;
• A Community Health Online Resource Center, featuring planning guides, evaluation frameworks, communication materials, health data and state or local program contacts;
• Action guides for practitioners hoping to work with schools or health care delivery systems, including Promoting Health Equity: A Resource to Help Communities Address Social Determinants of Health;
• CDC’s Social Media Toolkit to help organizations or individuals get started in social media;
• and Implementation Guides, providing evidence- and practice-based strategies to assist in replicating specific policies, systems or environmental changes across multiple sectors and chronic disease risk factors.

 

The Healthy Communities Program has funded 331 communities and 52 state and territorial health departments to build community capacity around reducing health risk factors and support health equity. The program also collaborates with national networks to provide technical support and training to its communities, including the US State and Territorial Health Departments Collaborative, the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) and the YMCA of the USA.

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