Environmental Strategies for Prevention
A Guide To Helping the Prevention Professional Work Effectively in the Community

Module 1: An Introduction to Environmental Strategies - Page 3 of 21

What Are Environmental Strategies?

Environmental strategies help alter policies, procedures, systems, and attitudes.

In the prevention field, there are varying ways to accomplish the goals of enabling and promoting good health and safe behaviors. When a measure seeks to change a person's individual behavior, we call it an individual intervention. If a measure seeks to change the environment of individuals, we call this an environmental intervention or strategy. So, what are these environmental strategies?

Environmental strategies are prevention efforts that aim to change or influence community standards, institutions, structures, and attitudes that shape individuals' behaviors. In Prevention, U.S.A., communities, environmental approaches have been used to:

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