Interventions

The Best Practices Section of the Portal is a searchable list of chronic disease prevention and health promotion interventions which provides program planners and public health practitioners with easy and immediate access to successful public health programs, interventions and policies that have been evaluated and have the potential to be adapted and used.

Featured Interventions

• The Incredible Years

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  The Incredible Years (IY) is a set of three comprehensive, multifaceted, and developmentally based curricula for parents, teachers, and young children aged 12 years and younger. The program is designed to promote emotional and social competence. It is also designed …

• Food Services + Cooking + Gardening + Education

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  This intervention was created by a community collaborative comprised of representatives from a mid-sized school district in California, a group dedicated to teaching sustainable living and a private foundation. Implemented with a cohort of elementary students in grades four and …

• Alice Springs Indigenous Family Wellbeing Program

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  Australian Indigenous family wellbeing Promotion of personal empowerment and resilience in Indigenous families. Aboriginal women represent three per cent of all women in Australia, yet they make up six times that amount in family violence victims. One woman in Melbourne …