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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- Built Environment
Build intergenerational and age-friendly communities
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- Arts, Culture, & Leisure
Develop and strengthen social-emotional skills and prosocial behavior through art and culture based activities
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- Work, Employment, & Labor
Create mentoring or training programs to recruit and integrate residents into the workforce
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- Built Environment
Create routes for residents to safely walk through neighborhoods
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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
Train health care providers in social prescribing and write social prescriptions for community events and activities
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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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Explore All Strategies

Build intergenerational and age-friendly communities

Develop and strengthen social-emotional skills and prosocial behavior through art and culture based activities

Create mentoring or training programs to recruit and integrate residents into the workforce

Create routes for residents to safely walk through neighborhoods

Identify common goals and find shared identities

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

Train health care providers in social prescribing and write social prescriptions for community events and activities

Offer physical activities and wellness programs

Promote early relational health in the family unit

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