Community Interventions
The following evidence-based community interventions come from the Guide to Community Preventive Services 
, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Behavioral and Social Approaches to Increase Physical Activity: Enhanced School-Based Physical Education
Enhancing physical education (PE) curricula involves making classes longer or having students be more active during class in order to increase the amount of time students spend doing moderate or vigorous activity in PE class.
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Behavioral and Social Approaches to Increase Physical Activity: Social Support Interventions in Community Settings
Social support interventions focus on changing physical activity behavior through building, strengthening, and maintaining social networks that provide supportive relationships for behavior change (e.g., setting up a buddy system, making contracts with others to complete specified levels of physical activity, or setting up walking groups or other groups to provide friendship and support).
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Campaigns and Informational Approaches to Increase Physical Activity: Community-Wide Campaigns
Community-wide campaigns to increase physical activity involve many community sectors; include highly visible, broad-based, component strategies; and may also address other cardiovascular disease risk factors.
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Decreasing Tobacco Use Among Workers: Incentives and Competitions to Increase Smoking Cessation
Worksite-based incentives and competitions to reduce tobacco use among workers offer rewards to individual workers and to teams as a motivation to participate in a cessation program or effort.
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Early Childhood Development: Comprehensive, Center-Based Programs for Children of Low-Income Families
Comprehensive, center-based early childhood development programs are defined as publicly funded comprehensive preschool programs designed to improve the cognitive and social development of children, aged 3 to 5 years, at risk because of family poverty.
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Increasing Tobacco Use Cessation: Multicomponent Interventions that Include Telephone Support
These interventions provide people who use tobacco products with cessation counseling or assistance in initiating or maintaining abstinence via telephone. They may be combined with other interventions, such as client education materials, individual or group cessation counseling, or nicotine-replacement therapies.
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Increasing Tobacco Use Cessation: Provider Reminders with Provider Education
These multicomponent efforts to increase tobacco use cessation include implementation of provider reminders and efforts to educate providers to identify and intervene with tobacco-using patients, as well as provide supplementary educational materials.
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Obesity Prevention and Control, Interventions in Community Settings: Worksite Programs
Worksite nutrition and physical activity programs are designed to improve health-related behaviors and health outcomes.
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Prevention of HIV/AIDS, other STIs and Pregnancy: Group-based Comprehensive Risk Reduction Interventions for Adolescents
Comprehensive risk reduction (CRR) promotes behaviors that prevent or reduce the risk of pregnancy, HIV, and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
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Reducing Alcohol-impaired Driving: Multicomponent Interventions with Community Mobilization
Multicomponent interventions to reduce alcohol-impaired driving can include any or all of a number of components, such as sobriety checkpoints, training in responsible beverage service, education and awareness-raising efforts, and limiting access to alcohol.
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Reducing Alcohol-impaired Driving: School-based Programs
School-based programs to reduce alcohol-impaired driving include: instructional programs; peer organizations such as Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD); and social norming campaigns.
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Reducing Tobacco Use Initiation: Mass Media Campaigns When Combined with Other Interventions
Mass media campaigns intended to reduce tobacco initiation use brief, recurring messages to inform and motivate individuals to remain tobacco free; campaigns may be combined with other interventions.
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School-based Programs to Reduce Violence
Universal school-based programs to reduce violence are designed to teach all students in a given school or grade about the problem of violence and its prevention or about one or more of the following topics or skills intended to reduce aggressive or violent behavior: emotional self-awareness, emotional control, self-esteem, positive social skills, social problem solving, conflict resolution, or team work.
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Use of Child Safety Seats: Community-wide Information and Enhanced Enforcement Campaigns
Community-wide information and enhanced enforcement campaigns include mass media, information and publicity, public displays about safety seats, and special strategies such as checkpoints, dedicated law enforcement officials, or alternative penalties (e.g., informational warnings instead of citations).
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Use of Child Safety Seats: Distribution and Education Programs
Child safety seat distribution and education programs provide an educational component and child safety seats through a loan, low-cost rental or giveaway of an approved safety seat.
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Use of Child Safety Seats: Incentive and Education Programs
Incentive and education programs reward parents for correctly using child safety seats or directly reward children for correctly using safety seats.
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Worksite Health Promotion: Assessment of Health Risks with Feedback to Change Employees’ Health
This intervention includes an assessment of personal health habits and risk factors; an estimation or assessment of risk of death and other adverse health outcomes; and provision of feedback in the form of educational messages and counseling.
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