| Improving Neighborhood
Living Conditions |
| Intermediate Outcome: Making Housing Affordable
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- Legislative support for subsidized
housing
- Housing or shelters for homeless persons
- Increased single-room occupancy units
for low-income, single adults
- Building codes requiring developers
to apportion low-cost units in new developments
- Mixed income housing developments
- Low-cost housing protection in neighborhood
revitalization projects
- Habitat for Humanity
|
| Intermediate Outcome: Increasing Housing
Quality and Safety |
- Tenant organizations and support
- Public programs to abate housing
hazards (e.g., lead paint removal or
rodent extermination)
- Child-proof homes (e.g., safety locks,
poison symbols, or scald-proof water
controls)
- Protection against extremes in climate
- Removal of unsafe/abandoned buildings
and debris in vacant lots
- Fire safety protection
- Neighborhood beautification (e.g.,
tree and garden planting or clean-up
events)
|
| Intermediate Outcome: Making Neighborhoods
Safer |
- Neighborhood watch programs
- Rapid access to emergency personnel
(e.g., fire, police, and medical services)
- Home security systems
- Safe playgrounds
- Animal control
- Neighborhood policing by residents
(e.g., Detroit's Halloween fire prevention)
- Reduction of neighborhood gang activity
- Reduction of drug trafficking and
neighborhood shooting galleries
- Increased sidewalks, exercise and
recreation paths, and lighting
- Reduction of liquor store density
|
| Intermediate Outcome: Building, Improving,
and Retaining Neighborhood Assets |
- Public libraries, schools, fire departments,
hospitals, and parks
- Public information systems (e.g.,
local media or the Internet)
- Neighborhood businesses and home-based
enterprises
- Cultural organizations and citizen
associations
- Religious organizations
- Facilities for sports and other special
interest clubs
- Family resource centers
- Supermarkets and produce grocers
- Transportation systems (e.g., bus,
rail, or car pools)
|
| Intermediate Outcome: Enhancing Neighborhood
Cohesion and Social Support Systems |
- Informal neighborhood social activities
(e.g., sewing, book, or gardening clubs)
- Mentoring programs (e.g., Big Brothers/Sisters
or youth business)
- Involvement in community organizations
(e.g., Kiwanis or Scouts)
- Senior centers
- After-school programs
- Accommodations for persons with disabilities
- Elder day care
- Park recreation and exercise programs
- Architecture designed to increase
neighbors' interaction (e.g., decrease
in gated communities and increase in
sidewalks, front porches, and mixed
income housing)
- Neighborhood planning to increase
public meeting spaces (e.g., plazas,
parks, trails, local entertainment centers)
|
|
| Community Development
and Employment Opportunities |
| Intermediate Outcome: Enhancing Community
Economic Viability |
- Enterprise zones
- Small loans to support locally owned
businesses
- Recruiting/retention of neighborhood
stores and services
- Sustainable technologies
- Job relocation to workers' neighborhoods
- Use of neighborhood facilities and
services for health agency business
(e.g., meeting spaces or catering)
- Small business assistance
- Local business clubs as resource for
business owners
- University and community partnerships
to advise local business owners and
provide student apprenticeships
- Policy/legislative safety nets during
economic recessions
|
| Intermediate Outcome: Providing Job Training
Opportunities |
- Elementary and middle school exposure
to entrepreneurial activities
- Volunteer programs to mentor students
in diverse occupations
- Youth internships in local service
agencies and businesses
- Training of local residents for neighborhood
intervention programs
- Spotlight on public health careers
at schools
- Junior Achievement programs in schools
- School-based, student businesses for
neighborhood services
- Convenient junior colleges and community
colleges
- Affordable technical schools
- Technical school scholarships sponsored
by regional businesses
|
| Intermediate Outcome: Developing Employment
Opportunities |
- Equal opportunity, nondiscrimination
policies
- Hiring of local personnel in neighborhood
businesses
- Placement of service companies and
light industries in workers' neighborhoods
- Community jobs for mentally or physically
impaired persons
- Support of neighborhood cottage industry
- Apprenticeship programs
- Federal and state job programs (e.g.,
VISTA or Job Corps)
- Roles for senior citizens in workplaces
|
| Intermediate Outcome: Improving Work Conditions |
- Minimum wages that permit working
families to live above the poverty level
- Flexible workplaces (e.g., shifts
or telecommuting) that accommodate workers
with child or elder care responsibilities
- Safe and equitable working conditions
for new immigrants
- Safe work environments (e.g., federal
occupational safety and health standards)
- Quality, affordable childcare for
welfare-to-work participants and low-income
working families
- Jobs that provide personal growth
and fulfillment opportunities
- Adequate health benefits with employment
- Financial safety in case of injury,
illness, or job loss
|
|
| Engaging in Civic
Affairs and Participating in Decision-Making |
Intermediate Outcome: Increasing Civic
Engagement
in Communities |
- Voter-registration drives
- Media spotlight on issues that need
local input
- Public health links with local faith
communities
- Civic clubs (e.g., Rotary, volunteer
fire departments, or parent-teacher
associations)
- Enhanced sense of community around
political jurisdictions (e.g., belonging
to a particular neighborhood or township)
- Non-categorized funding support for
organizing community action groups
|
Intermediate Outcome: Increasing Social
Engagement
in Communities |
- Neighborhood social clubs (e.g., hobbies
or sports)
- Community centers/facilities for group
meetings
- Senior centers
- Community day care programs (e.g.,
for preschool children or elderly or
impaired persons)
- Promotion of public leisure activities
(e.g., concerts or festivals) as alternative
to private leisure (e.g., television
or video games)
- Increased opportunities and facilities
for community volunteers to share knowledge
(e.g., regarding the arts, languages,
or sports)
- Centers for community entertainment
and leisure activities (e.g., a theater-bookstore-coffee
complex)
- Attractive, safe neighborhood meeting
spaces (e.g., parks, playgrounds, plazas,
or ball fields)
|
| Intermediate Outcome: Building Community
Infrastructure To Increase Local Decision-Making |
- Non-categorized funding support for
community organizing
- Community coalition-building
- Training in negotiation skills for
community groups
- Training programs for grassroots advocacy
- Reinforcement of cultural heritage
to build common interests (e.g., language
courses or Saturday schools to teach
ethnic group customs and art)
|
|
| Promoting Supportive
Community Customs, Norms, and Processes |
| Intermediate Outcome: Promoting Social
Solidarity and Understanding Across Diverse
Groups |
- Nondiscrimination policies
- Affirmative action programs
- Anti-stigma campaigns (e.g., for AIDS
or mental illness)
- Freedom schools (i.e., from the civil
rights era)
- Diversity training in workplaces
|
| Intermediate Outcome: Providing a Focal
Point for Community Growth and Social Support
Activities Through Religious Institutions |
- Location for social support and leisure
activities in addition to spiritual
fulfillment
- Location for multicultural social
interaction
- Source for aid for community members
(e.g., food, clothing, or shelter)
- Outlet for members to provide service
to their communities
- Outlet for socialization across generations
|
Intermediate Outcome: Recognizing Multicultural
Beliefs and Customs |
- Neighborhood multicultural festivals
- Cultural arts sponsorship (e.g., music,
dance, and art)
- Multicultural training for care providers
- Increased multicultural sensitivity
through professional associations (e.g.,
American Medical Association or American
Nursing Association)
- School-based programs that celebrate
ethnic traditions
- Recognition and reinforcement of cultural
behaviors that are protective of health
- Social and health services that are
sensitive to cultural beliefs and customs
|
| Intermediate Outcome: Supporting Community
Centers for Socialization |
- Community facilities for local group
meetings
- Public recreation facilities and programs
for all ages
- After-school programs
- Support or interest groups
- Youth programs that provide alternative
to unsupervised leisure time (e.g.,
music, sports, or art programs)
- Senior centers for socializing, education,
and leisure activities
|
Intermediate Outcome: Strengthening Democratic
Norms for Equal Voice and Influence for
All Community Members |
- Stimulation of community debates regarding
issues of social equity (e.g., location
of undesirable facilities, expenditures
for schools, or placement of public
libraries)
- Attention to trends of increasing
inequity in income and wealth and the
consequences on health and social structure
- Increased community voice in local
government (e.g., voter registration
drives or educational forums on ballot
issues)
- Encouragement of accountability of
public agencies
- Encouragement of accountability of
private companies (e.g., unsafe products
or employment practices)
|
|
| Promoting Opportunities
for Education and Developing Capacity |
| Intermediate Outcome: Promoting Early
Learning and Child Development Opportunities |
- Child development programs (e.g.,
Head Start or Healthy Start)
- Parenting classes in schools, churches,
or health agencies
- Funding for expansion of community
preschool programs
- Training programs for providers of
home-based childcare
- Development of high-quality foster
childcare systems (e.g., training, adequate
funding, and oversight)
- Programs to support young mothers
(e.g., school-based programs, home nursing
visits, and educational programs and
materials)
|
| Intermediate Outcome: Improving the Quality
of Educational Systems |
- Schools as sites for support programs
(e.g., Washington Heights model after-school
program, parenting programs, or community
support programs)
- Private corporation support for public
education (e.g., company sponsorship
and mentoring programs or Microsoft's
computers to schools program)
- Senior citizens as models and mentors
in schools
- Adequate public investment in education
- Competitive salaries for teachers
- Programs to strengthen community-school
relationships
- Efforts to improve curricular standards
- Efforts to improve teacher performance
- Lower teacher-student ratios
- Curriculum focus on social and health
issues (e.g., personal skills, drug-free
environments, or safe choices regarding
sex)
|
| Intermediate Outcome: Enhancing Job Training
Programs |
- Elementary and middle school exposure
to entrepreneurial activities
- Volunteer programs to mentor students
in diverse occupations
- Youth internships in local service
agencies and businesses
- Spotlight on public health careers
at schools
- Junior Achievement programs in schools
- School-based, student businesses for
neighborhood services
- Convenient junior colleges and community
colleges with curricula that support
adult technical and liberal education
- Affordable technical schools
- Technical school scholarships sponsored
by regional businesses
- Off-campus college programs at work
sites and community sites to advance
work opportunities
- Retraining programs for displaced
workers (e.g., factory closings or corporate
downsizing)
- Job Corps program
- Mentoring programs to acquaint youth
with professions and trades (e.g., summer
internships)
|
| Intermediate Outcome: Providing Opportunities
for Recreation and Leisure for All Ages |
- YMCA/YWCA programs
- Campfire Girls/Boys, Boys Clubs/Girls
Clubs, Scouting
- Community Sports for youth (e.g.,
basketball, baseball, soccer, gymnastics,
and swimming)
- Community arts programs through local
parks and recreation
- Local hobby clubs
- Adult recreational sports and exercise
programs
|
| Intermediate Outcome: Promoting a Life-Long
Learning Environment |
- Community capacity development across
generations (e.g., Louisville model)
- Criminal justice system programs to
reintegrate members of a community through
job training programs
- Continuing education programs for
adults at local colleges
|
|
| Promoting Health,
Disease and Injury Prevention, and Healthcare
Opportunities |
| Intermediate Outcome: Defining Community
Goals |
- Community participation in health
decision-making
- Continuous access to health information
for decision-making
- Research driven by community-identified
health issues
- Community as equal collaborators in
research
|
| Intermediate Outcome: Supporting Safe
and Satisfying Living Conditions |
- Collaboration between health services
and broader social, economic, and political
sectors for healthier environments
- Social marketing to influence normative
health patterns
- Healthy choices in school, home, work,
community settings
|
Intermediate Outcome: Providing Health
Education
in Communities |
- Use of media for community health
education
- Use of media to raise awareness of
public health issues
|
| Intermediate Outcome: Promoting Culturally
Appropriate Health Services |
- Multicultural providers
- Interpreter services
- Health education materials in multiple
languages
- Multicultural participation in designing
and evaluating health services
|
| Intermediate Outcome: Making Healthcare
Accessible |
- Access to quality healthcare for all
ages
- Equitable coverage for mental health
agencies
- Coverage for preventative as well
as curative care
- Providers available in all communities
|
| Intermediate Outcome: Promoting Health
and Disease Prevention Through School Settings |
- Health-promotion curriculum (e.g.,
self-esteem or health choices)
- Preventive care (e.g., hearing and
vision screenings or therapy for speech
or learning difficulties)
- Programs for adolescent parents for
school completion and parenting skills
|
| Intermediate Outcome: Promoting Health
and Disease Prevention Through the Workplace |
- Mental health promotion and care
- Opportunities for exercise and healthy
eating
- Childcare, child development centers
- Opportunities to strengthen social
networks
- Opportunities for meaningful work
experiences
|
| Intermediate Outcome: Monitoring Community
Health Through Sentinel Health Indicators |
- Health indicators (e.g., preventable
morbidity and mortality or health disparities)
- Socioeconomic indicators (e.g., rates
of employment, crime, or housing availability,
or surveys of quality of community life)
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