CDC and its partners are working together to create healthy, thriving communities across the United States by reducing chronic diseases and attaining health equity through training, mentorship, dissemination of effective models, and investments in communities that jump-start local change.
There is much that communities can do. CDC, local and state health departments, national organizations with extensive reach into communities, and a wide range of community leaders and groups are collaborating to activate and spread policy, systems, and environmental changes that encourage people to be more physically active, eat a healthy diet, and not use tobacco. These population-based change strategies have been found to be an effective approach to improving the health of communities.
Since 2003, more than 180 communities have been selected to participate in CDC’s Healthy Communities Program, resulting in significant changes at the local level. During the next 5 years, at least 260 additional communities will receive funding and technical support to activate change in their communities and serve as models for how to improve the health of communities across the nation.
Program Overview>>
Action Institutes and Training
Tools for Community Action
Community Health Resources Database
Community Health Assessment aNd Group Evaluation (CHANGE) Tool
Action Guides
- The Community Health Promotion Handbook: Action Guides to Improve Community Health
- Promoting Health Equity: A Resource to Help Communities Address Social Determinants of Health
- Media Access Guide: A Resource for Community Health Promotion
Evaluation and Innovation
CDC’s investments in communities across the United States are producing successful results. Community achievements in the areas of policy, systems, and environmental changes have far-reaching implications by serving as models that can be replicated nationwide to improve the health of young people, adults, families, and underserved populations.
Investments in Communities
To promote policy, systems, and environmental changes that improve community health, CDC supports selected communities across the United States representing a mix of urban, rural, and tribal communities through—
National Networks for Community Change
CDC is mobilizing national networks to provide technical support and training to communities.
Program News
In the Spotlight
Conference Registration Open!
Promoting Environmental and Policy Change to Support Healthy Aging, co-sponsored by Healthy Communities Program, Sept. 15–16, 2009 in Chapel Hill, NC
Program Newsletter: May 2009
New! Journal Articles on Program Successes
43 new ACHIEVE communities were selected in March 2009
Listen to keynote speakers from the 2009 National Conference on Chronic Disease Prevention and Control: Cultivating Healthy Communities
Contact Us:
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Healthy Communities Program
4770 Buford Highway, N.E.
Mailstop K-93
Atlanta, GA 30341-3717 - Phone:
(770) 488-6452
Fax:
(770) 488-8488
- cdcinfo@cdc.gov
