Accountable Communities of Health (ACH)
Accountable Communities of Health (ACHs) bring together health leaders from different sectors to improve health and increase health equity. ACHs take a whole person approach to health and wellness.Evidence Based, Health Equity, Place Based Community Efforts

Colorado: A Decade-Long Single Minded Focus on Shared Risk and Protective Factors
Colorado’s statewide conference about shared risk and protective factors helps programs and agencies improve the health of their communities by teaching them how to implement a shared risk and protective factor approach. These approaches can be applied to work in the ACES space. « less… more »Evidence Informed, Health Equity, Little P, Place Based Community Efforts

Communities That Care (CTC)
This is a prevention toolkit that assists communities in identifying and tailoring prevention interventions that increase protective factors and reduce risky behavior for youth 0-22 years. CTC focuses on identifying risk and protective factors and developing a community coalition to identify and implement prevention interventions. « less… more »Evidence Informed, Place Based Community Efforts

Louisiana: Gaining Momentum on Shared Risk and Protective Factors
Louisiana developed the ACES Educator Program where community members are trained to become ACE educators to ensure community awareness of ACES. They also used state-to-state learnings to implement an academy around shared risk and protective factors (SRPF). The academy identifies a community where they train local stakeholders to develop and implement plans to reduce violence through a SPRF approach. « less… more »Evidence Informed, Health Equity, Place Based Community Efforts

North Carolina: Nurturing Skills and Knowledge to Grow a Safer State
North Carolina worked with partners in the community to create a partnership between the local health department and hospital. The team worked to improve several community health issues through a SRPF approach learned in the Academy and succeeded in reopening a school and supporting hospital health education and outreach. « less… more »Evidence Informed, Health Equity, Place Based Community Efforts

Rhode Island: Using Shared Risk and Protective Factors to Reach Schools and Communities
Rhode Island Violence and Injury Prevention Program (VIPP) worked on a suicide prevention initiative in schools by supporting a framework for addressing students at risk for suicide in the school, as opposed to the emergency room. The Emotional Regulation program in Rhode Island is used to address risky health behaviors and sexual activity in middle school students. « less… more »Evidence Informed, Health Equity, Place Based Community Efforts

The Power in a Plan: Utah’s Progress Toward Using Shared Risk and Protective Factors
This brief looks at how Utah used a shared risk and protective factor approach for their Core State Violence and Injury Prevention Program (CoreSVIPP) cooperative agreement to address public health issues. « less… more »Evidence Based, Little P, Place Based Community Efforts