Program Newsletters

Newsletters provide periodic highlights of CDC's Healthy Communities Program activities. They are written for funded communities and partners, divisions of CDC and the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, and other communities and organizations interested in chronic disease prevention and health promotion at the local level.

July/October 2009 (Combined Issue) [PDF–843KB]

Inside this issue:

• CDC’s Strategic Alliance for Health Holds First-Ever Action Institute
• Community Profile:
  New York City’s Strategic Alliance for Health Community
• Two New Communities Join Strategic Alliance for Health
• Actions Speak Louder Than Words—ACHIEVE Action Institutes
• Community Profile:
  Northeast Connecticut’s ACHIEVE Gets Off on the Right Foot
• Awash in ACHIEVE—a New Coach’s Personal Experience
• Community Profile:
  Pioneering Healthier Communities in Birmingham, Alabama—Using Community Engagement to Improve the Built Environment
• YMCA of the USA’s Healthier Communities Initiatives Host Learning Institute
• Steps Communities… Still Moving Forward
• 2009 Steps Heroes Honored at Peer-to-Peer Meeting
• Recent Publications Feature Healthy Communities Program Successes
• National Scientific Conference Highlights Healthy Communities Program Accomplishments
• Healthy Communities Efforts Acknowledged in Congressional Quarterly
• Discussion: Six "Myths" of Coalition Development
• Healthy Communities Program Staff Profiles
  
  

May 2009 (First Issue) [PDF–2.4M]

Inside this issue:

• What Is CDC’s Healthy Communities Program?
• Action Communities for Health, Innovation, and EnVironmental changE (ACHIEVE)
• ACHIEVE Coaches Meeting Highlights
• Strategic Alliance for Health Works to Build Local Capacity
• New Collaboration with State Health Departments
• Discussion: Policy, Systems, and Environmental Change
• Healthy Communities Program Staff Profiles

 

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