June is National Safety Month, making it an ideal time to discuss how communities can address health, safety, and harm reduction initiatives. The purpose of this webinar is to discuss how communities use art to ‘tell the story of health behavior and behavior change.

Publication Date: April 2, 2021, This article evaluates early implementation of WWE in five community-based organizations (CBOs) that received 1-year grants for program delivery. We examine organizational characteristics and implementation activities during the first 6 months of their implementation grants and identify key differences between organizations that were successful with implementation and those that struggled. We also describe implementation barriers and provide practical strategies that organizations employed to overcome them.

Publication Date: April 3, 2021, This article provides insight and practical recommendations for how LHDs can use a collective impact framework to implement strategies to improve maternal and child health outcomes and decrease health disparities.

During May's recognition of Mental Health Month, join the authors of Health Promotion Practices’ latest supplement, Arts in Public Health, to hear the latest evidence-based practices and frameworks to improve social and mental health outcomes. Authors share their research on the potential of arts in pain management, prevention and treatment of substance use disorders, and suicide prevention. This event will be archived and CE will be made available within 48 hours - an email will be sent to you, once the recording and evaluation are available.

Publication Date: May 4, 2021, This article illuminates the potential for cross-sector collaboration between community-based health promotion and community-engaged arts to address the social determinants of health and build neighborhood assets at multiple levels of the social-ecological model.

Publication Date: May 4, 2021, Suicide is a serious health problem that is shaped by a variety of social and mental health factors. A growing body of research connects the arts to positive health outcomes; however, no previous systematic reviews have examined the use of the arts in suicide prevention and survivorship. This review examined how the arts have been used to address suicide prevention and survivorship in nonclinical settings in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.

Using HESPA II Areas of Responsibilities, VII Leadership and Management, and VIII Ethics and Professionalism, presenters will demonstrate the need for leadership skills at the professional preparation stage, how faculty can assess student capacity for personal leadership, and how leadership activities can be intentionally positioned throughout the health education curricula.

This study assessed adults’ perceptions toward preparedness to better inform emergency planning efforts for households and communities.

This article discusses the process by which the model was developed and provides steps for states and communities to implement this tool. It also introduces efforts in a state to use this model within county coalitions through an innovative use of federal and foundation funding.

In this article, we describe the background context, theoretical orientation, and development of the approach and briefly review published evaluation findings. In addition, we present the five guiding principles that underlie the Icelandic Prevention Model’s approach to adolescent substance use prevention and discuss the accumulated evidence that supports effectiveness of the model.