Community Transformation Grants (CTG) Small Communities

The Small Communities Program

In 2012, CTG was expanded to support areas with fewer than 500,000 people in neighborhoods, school districts, villages, towns, cities, and counties to increase opportunities to prevent chronic diseases and promote health. In an effort to reach more people, approximately $70 million was awarded to 40 communities to implement broad, sustainable strategies that will reduce health disparities and expand clinical and community preventive services that will directly impact about 9.2 million Americans. The expansion of CTG ensures that more Americans will benefit from healthier environments and have access to healthier options.

Consistent with the overall CTG program, these new awards support the five “Strategic Directions” from the National Prevention Strategy: 1) tobacco-free living, 2) active living and healthy eating, 3) high-impact quality clinical and community preventive services, 4) social and emotional wellness, and 5) healthy and safe physical environments.

Awardees will conduct activities that contribute to the overall goals of the CTG program and help achieve positive change in one or more of the following five outcome measures; changes in:

1. Weight
2. Proper nutrition
3. Physical activity
4. Tobacco use
5. Social and emotional well-being

Examples of community initiatives include:

• Increasing access to physical activity through quality physical education instruction in schools
• Increasing access to healthy foods by supporting local farmers and neighborhood grocery stores
• Protecting people from secondhand smoke exposure in indoor and outdoor spaces
• Facilitating the early identification of mental health needs and access to quality services

The Small Communities program is a two-year program concluding in 2014.

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