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
Create third places that facilitate natural opportunities for connection
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- Built Environment
Design places to support comfort and connection
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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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- Built Environment
Increase access to recreation and socializing by adopting shared-use policies
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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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- Arts, Culture, & Leisure
Formally establish compassion and connection as community values and norms
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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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Explore All Strategies

Create third places that facilitate natural opportunities for connection

Design places to support comfort and connection

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

Increase access to recreation and socializing by adopting shared-use policies

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

Create routes for residents to safely walk through neighborhoods

Formally establish compassion and connection as community values and norms

Identify common goals and find shared identities

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

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