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

• Resources for Enhancing Alzheimer’s Caregiver Health (REACH) II

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  Resources for Enhancing Alzheimer’s Caregiver Health II (REACH II) is a multicomponent psychosocial and behavioural training intervention for caregivers (21 years and older) of patients with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia. The intervention is designed to reduce caregiver burden and depression, …

• Aggression Replacement Training (ART)

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  The ART intervention is a multimodal, cognitive behavioural group program administered by trained staff to improve social skills and moral reasoning, reduce aggression, and teach anger management skills to challenging youth. The program consists of skillstreaming, designed to teach a …

• Aboriginal Head Start in Urban and Northern Communities

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  The Aboriginal Head Start in Urban and Northern Communities (AHSUNC) Program is a community based early intervention children’s program funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada. AHSUNC focuses on early childhood development (ECD) for First Nations, Inuit and Métis …