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 Functional Fitness for Long-Term Care (FFLTC) Program

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  The Functional Fitness for Long Term Care Program was designed to maintain range of motion, improve strength, balance, flexibility, mobility and function of older adults. It is tailored to meet the needs of both high and low mobility residents. Classes …

• Coping with Stress Course

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  The Coping With Stress (CWS) Course is a psychoeducational, cognitive-behavioral intervention for the prevention of unipolar depression in high school adolescents who have an increased risk of depression. It is not meant to be a treatment for active episodes of …

• Sandy Lake Health and Diabetes Project

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  A multi-facetted diabetes prevention program implemented over the past 20 years in a remote fly-in First Nations community in northern Ontario. The intervention involves: a school-based diabetes curriculum for children in grades 3 and 4; a diabetes radio show; and …