Strategies for Social Connection

Explore promising strategies for advancing social connection, drawn from our SOCIAL Framework Reports and Action Guide for Building Socially Connected Communities. Each strategy includes the evidence behind it, along with examples from communities putting it into practice.

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- Work, Employment, & Labor
Create mentoring or training programs to recruit and integrate residents into the workforce
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- Civic Engagement
Identify common goals and find shared identities
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- Education
Create social, educational, and physical programs/activities for school-age youth
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- Health
Offer physical activities and wellness programs
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- Health
Promote early relational health in the family unit
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- Education
Offer social-emotional learning curriculum or training to build social cognitive skills
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- Civic Engagement
Create and support volunteer programs, including those that provide social connections and interaction among sub-populations (e.g., intergenerational, cross-cultural)
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- Housing
Form and invest in neighborhood associations between residents (e.g., block clubs, neighborhood associations, parent groups, and faith-based communities) that are led by residents and community members with lived experience related to social disconnectedness
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- Built Environment
Build intergenerational communities
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Create mentoring or training programs to recruit and integrate residents into the workforce

Identify common goals and find shared identities

Create social, educational, and physical programs/activities for school-age youth

Offer physical activities and wellness programs

Promote early relational health in the family unit

Offer social-emotional learning curriculum or training to build social cognitive skills

Create and support volunteer programs, including those that provide social connections and interaction among sub-populations (e.g., intergenerational, cross-cultural)

Form and invest in neighborhood associations between residents (e.g., block clubs, neighborhood associations, parent groups, and faith-based communities) that are led by residents and community members with lived experience related to social disconnectedness

Build intergenerational communities

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