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

• MEND (Mind, Exercise, Nutrition…Do It!) Program – MEND 7-13

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  The MEND (Mind, Exercise, Nutrition… Do It!) Program is a community intervention aimed to empower families of overweight and obese children to adopt and maintain healthy lifestyles. This program combines all the elements known to be important when treating and …

• Stop & Think

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  The Stop & Think program was designed to teach at-risk video lottery terminal (VLT) gamblers cognitive restructuring and problem-solving skills that may help to prevent the development of pathological gambling (PG). These skills were taught through a variety of methods …

• Winnipeg Aboriginal Sport Achievement Centre: Youth Achievement Program

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  This award-winning program started in 2000 with a mission to promote social change for Aboriginal youth through sports and recreation. Started in an urban Winnipeg neighbourhood, the program was expanded in 2008 to 3 northern First Nations communities. The Youth …