Office of Health Policy

In 2003, HHS awarded 12 communities with five-year grants to implement effective community-based chronic disease prevention and control programs.  Twelve communities were selected for their innovative proposals to improve the health of their target populations. (For more information, visit: www.healthierus.gov/steps/grants.html.)

The ultimate goal of these Steps Community grants is to improve the health of individuals in the communities.  They do this by working to decrease risk factors for chronic diseases, to prevent the occurrence of these diseases, and to decrease their consequences in people’s lives.  Each community focuses on three areas--asthma, diabetes and obesity—and, given the emphasis on prevention, each community also works to address the factors that put individuals at risk for these diseases, such as nutrition, physical activity, and preventive health screenings. 

Each grantee has assembled a community partnership that is charged with improving both the broader public’s health, as well as the health of specific target groups.  These partnerships pursue interventions that address the community and the environment by:

They also address the school environment by:

Grantees

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