Strategies: Civic Health

Provide space to promote socializing among community members and offer programs and services such as recreational or educational activities, counseling or support services

Support locally-based visual, media, and performing arts initiatives for children and adults; also called participatory arts programs

Establish voluntary formal groups of residents who work together to create a unified voice, enhance living conditions in their neighborhood, and address neighborhood concerns

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 and strengthen traumatized and distressed residents and communities and address effects of community trauma (e.g., poverty, violence, structural racism, etc.) via a comprehensive, multi-stakeholder, and multilevel approach

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

Provide all individuals with regular cash transfers, without conditions, over their lifetimes

Return the rights to land, property, and resources to Native people as part of policies and initiatives that promote tribal sovereignty