Community Health

Programs designed to improve health outcomes for individuals and communities, or to organize efforts to address health issues such as obesity, substance misuse, or stress. This would include efforts to gather information about the incidence of health conditions and efforts to create partnerships and coalitions to address issues and change or create policy that affects health outcomes. Audiences include public sector health organizations, community advocates and leaders, private sector health care providers, and individuals.

Example program topics: community support for healthy infrastructure; planning to organize community level responses to health issues; understanding and documenting health conditions or health disparities; addressing health related policy

Compassion & Resilience Education at Work (CREW) Curriculum

Topic: Community Health | Phase: Implementing | Resource Use: , | Resource Format: Program

Employers recognize the impact that mental health and substance use can have on employee productivity, satisfaction, and retention, but struggle to address them. Extension professionals who partner with workplaces on these issues can offer the Compassion & Resilience Education at Work or CREW Curriculum from Purdue Extension. CREW is a…

Rural Grocery Specialist Certificate

Topic: Business Development, Community Health, Community-Based Economic Development | Phase: Initiating & Scoping, Organizing, Visioning & Planning, Implementing | Resource Use: , | Resource Format: Program, Web-based Tool

The Rural Grocery Specialist Certificate Program trains and deploys resource professionals across the country to better serve rural grocers through business transitions. This course includes seven self-paced online modules covering key topics for supporting rural grocers through business transition. Each module consists of between five and 10 video lessons led…

Taking Action to Address Substance Use in Communities (TASC)

Topic: Community Health | Phase: Initiating & Scoping, Organizing, Assessing, Visioning & Planning, Implementing, Evaluating & Reflecting | Resource Use: , | Resource Format: Program

Taking Action to Address Substance Use in Communities: A Protocol for Communities has been developed by a team of health professionals and Extension professionals from Purdue University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and The Ohio State University to provide a theoretical framework for Extension professionals as they work with communities…

Community First Impressions

Topic: Community Health, Community Planning, Resilience, and Sustainability | Phase: Assessing | Resource Use: , | Resource Format: Program, Tool

As the old saying goes, “you never get a second chance to make a first impression.” For first time visitors, the way a community presents itself is of equal importance. The look and feel of the community experienced by a visitor will most likely influence how long they stay, if…