Tools for Partners

At a glance

Explore CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion's (NCCDPHP's) tools to activate, engage, and strengthen partnerships.

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Overview

NCCDPHP works with partners to address the needs reported by communities. Explore our tools to activate, engage, and strengthen partnerships.

Alzheimer's Disease: Road Map for Indian Country

The Road Map for Indian Country is designed to support discussion about dementia and caregiving in tribal communities and to encourage a public health approach—as part of a larger, collaborative response. This resource is the first public health guide focused on dementia in American Indian and Alaska Native communities.

Best Practices User Guide: Health Equity in Tobacco Prevention and Control

This user guide offers staff in tobacco control programs and other partners information on evidence-based strategies, real-world examples, and resources and tools to help achieve health equity when planning, implementing, and enforcing tobacco control policies.

Community-Clinical Linkages Health Equity Guide

Community-clinical linkages are connections between community and clinical sectors that aim to improve health within a community. This guide helps practitioners in public health, community, and clinical sectors incorporate health equity when organizing a community-clinical linkage structure and supporting its operations.

Health Equity Resource Toolkit for State Practitioners Addressing Obesity Disparities

This toolkit helps state health departments and their partners work with communities to reduce obesity in populations affected by health disparities. The resource shows how changes in policy, health systems, and environment can reduce obesity disparities and achieve health equity. A six-step process is provided for planning, implementing, and evaluating a program to address obesity disparities.

Reducing Cancer Disparities Through Partnerships

NCCDPHP awarded funds to three research organizations to learn what works to advance health equity in cancer. These projects are some of the first to address systemic racism as a key driver of health inequities in communities of color.

School Sealant Programs

School sealant programs are a highly effective way to reach children who are at greater risk for developing cavities and less likely to receive private dental care. This page provides an overview of school sealant programs and what states can do to increase support for them.