Intervention Type
What the innovative program aims to impact.
Access to Care
Intervention improves access to health services via healthcare, public health, or other delivery systems. Includes programs that aim to integrate and/or coordinate care.
Awareness
Intervention provides a strategic and organized series of activities to influence health behavior. The intervention can be provided through a variety of platforms including in person, through the media, and online.
Changing Physical Environment
Intervention modifies the physical environment to promote health and influence health behavior. Examples include refurbishing a home or public housing, creating public art, and planting gardens.
Counseling and Support
Intervention provides guidance to heal or relieve a disorder. Counseling can be provided one-on-one or in a group setting. It can be provided by professionals and/or peer specialists.
Financial Incentive/Offset Costs
Intervention offers monetary motivation to encourage health-related behaviors and can include coupons, gift cards, free memberships, and/or travel reimbursement. Examples include smoking-cessation product coupons, gym memberships, gift cards for participating in healthy behavior counseling, etc.
Healthy Food/Beverage Provision
Intervention increases access to and education about healthier food and beverage options or reduces access to unhealthy food and beverage options.
Point-of-Decision Prompt
Intervention provides prompts at decision points to guide individuals toward healthier choices (e.g., signs near elevators encouraging stair use).
Policy and Systems Change
Intervention uses changes to laws, regulations, procedures, administrative actions, incentives, and/or voluntary practices of governments and other institutions to improve health-related conditions and behaviors. Can also include interventions that streamline or improve an entire system.
Program
Intervention provides a coordinated and comprehensive health promotion or protection strategy to improve health, wellness, and quality of life.
Screening
Intervention identifies the health status or behaviors of people to identify risk factors for or the development of a developmental delay, disease or condition.
Symptom Management and Treatment Adherence
Intervention provides education and support to individuals—to manage or control the course of a specified condition—and includes interventions that address treatment adherence.
Training and Skill Building
Intervention aims to increase knowledge, provide skills, and/or influence attitudes about a specific topic.
Target Population
Who the innovative program aims to serve.
Adults
Innovative program primarily serves individuals who are between the ages of 26 and 64.
Children and Adolescents
Innovative program primarily serves individuals are under the age of 18.
Community
Innovative program aims to serve a whole community. Examples include place-based initiatives.
Individuals experiencing Housing Insecurity
Innovative program primarily serves individuals who are experiencing a lack of secure shelter. This can refer to a range of conditions, including but not limited to chronic street homelessness, living in transitional or emergency housing such as a homeless shelter, and "couchsurfing".
Individuals involved with the Justice System
Innovative program primarily serves individuals who are currently or have been involved in the criminal justice system.
Individuals who are Immigrants
Innovative program primarily serves individuals who reside in a different country than where they were born. The term 'immigrant' is an expansive term that can refer to varying degrees of immigration status and includes individuals who have refugee and asylum status.
Individuals who are Low Income
Innovative program primarily serves individuals who qualify as low-income.
Individuals who are Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Innovative program primarily serves individuals who are racial and ethnic minorities.
Individuals who are Veterans
Innovative program primarily serves individuals who have served in a branch of the military.
Individuals who identify as LGBTQ+
Innovative program primarily serves individuals in the LGBTQ+ community. LGBTQ+ is an expansive term referring to individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer and/or questioning.
Individuals with a Substance Use Disorder
Innovative program primarily serves individuals who recurrently use alcohol and/or drugs, causing clinically significant impairment, including health problems, disability, and failure to meet major responsibilities at work, school, or home.
Individuals with Serious Mental Illness
Innovative program primarily serves individuals who have a diagnosable mental, behavior, or emotional disorder that causes serious functional impairment that substantially interferes with or limits one or more major life activities.
Men/Boys
Innovative program primarily serves men and boys.
Older Adults
Innovative program primarily serves individuals who are aged 65 and older.
Parents/Families
Innovative program primarily serves parents and/or families.
Providers and Caregivers
Innovative program primarily serves or attend to the needs of those who care for others. This can include health and behavioral health care providers such as doctors, nurses, psychologists, social workers, etc. or other professionals such as teachers. This can also include family members, friends, and peers of the impacted individual.
Transition-Aged Youth
Innovative program primarily serves individuals between the ages of 19 and 25.
Women/Girls
Innovative program primarily serves women and girls.
Setting
Where the innovative program takes place.
Business/Work Site
Innovative program takes place in businesses or at work sites.
Child Care Facility
Innovative program takes place in pre-K or child care facilities (excluding schools).
Clinic
Innovative program takes place in an outpatient medical or behavioral health clinic.
Community
Innovative program takes place in a community setting (excluding health care facilities, schools, businesses, or faith-based settings).
Correctional Facility
Innovative program takes place in a jail, prison, or other place of incarceration by government officials.
Faith-Based Setting
Innovative program takes place in faith-based organization setting or is run by a faith-based organization.
Home
Innovative program takes place in the home.
Hospital
Innovative program takes place in an inpatient hospital facility or emergency department.
Long-Term Residential Care Facility
Innovative program takes place in a facility where people both live and receive care or services. This can include group homes, emergency housing, assisted living, nursing homes, etc.
Online Community/Tool
Innovative program exists on the internet or as a smartphone app. The program can accessed via computer, tablet, or smartphone.
Pharmacy
Innovative program takes place in a pharmacy or is provided by a pharmacist.
School/College
Innovative program takes place in a school or on a college campus (excluding child care and day care facilities).
Telehealth
Innovative program takes place in a virtual setting through the use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies.
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Other options to get involved
Alyson Ferguson, MPH
Samantha Matlin, PhD
Caitlin O'Brien, MPH
Joe Pyle, MA
Bridget Talone, MFA