Goal 5: Promote individual, family, and community connectedness
Connectedness encompasses both family connection and support, as well as community violence. Connectedness is a shared protective factor across suicide, falls, substance abuse, motor vehicle, interpersonal violence, child maltreatment, and traumatic brain injury topic areas.
Evidence-based or evidence informed approaches to promote individual, family, and community connectedness:
1. Conduct mentoring programs
2. Develop after-school programs
3. Conduct peer norm programs
4. Hold community engagement activities
Success is:
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- Increase the number of days that a family eats together
- Increase the proportion of residents living in same neighborhood for 5 or more years
- Decrease the number of poor mental health days in the past 7 days
- Increase the percentage of registered voters voting in last election
- Increase the number of civic, social, religious, political, and business organizations per 10,000