Strategies: Civic Health

Establish time-limited, subsidized, paid jobs to help individuals with barriers to employment transition to unsubsidized employment

Establish a relationship between an older adult and a child, adolescent, or college student through social interactions or a variety of educational and art activities

Create contracts that support community access to existing public, private, or nonprofit facilities before or after business hours; also called joint use, open use, or community use agreements

Support funds that help create or maintain affordable housing, subsidize rental housing, and assist homebuyers with low incomes and non-profit housing developers

Allow community members to gather, socialize, walk, run, bike, skate, etc. on streets temporarily to closed to motorized traffic; also called Ciclovía programs

Establish policies, plans, and programs that meet the needs of all residents of a community, especially children and older adults, and promote interaction and cooperation between individuals of different generations

Support acquisition of job-specific skills through education, certification programs, or on-the-job training, often with personal development resources and other supports

Apologize for discriminatory housing policies; increase subsidies, financing, and paths to homeownership for people of color; and invest in systematically disadvantaged neighborhoods

Organize workers to bargain collectively for improved wages, benefits, and working conditions

Expand broadband availability and adoption in unserved and underserved areas through initiatives that address infrastructure and cost barriers