All Good in the Hood 🚦
It's all a walk in the park thanks to the name of this program that coordinates with the VMC pediatricians to prescribe 60 minutes of physical activity at a monthly park event.
What is Juntos Parks Rx?
Moms-to-be are in great hands due to the newfound nutrition knowledge of this Afrocentric PHD team.
What is Black Infant Health?
This project provides underserved families with access to clean air through their public health nurse case manager or pediatric healthcare provider.
What is the Air Filter Project/Program?
The HCB program is responsible for the new bus shelter posters appearing in East San Jose, Cadillac/Winchester, and Gilroy that feature county residents and carry the message, “We All Play a Role…”
What is Violence Prevention Program?
Thanks to the name of this collaborative, cities, bicycle and pedestrian agencies, and the Active and Safe Communities Team can work together to coordinate, collaborate, and share Safe Routes to School related resources.
What is the Safe Routes to School Providers Group?
This HCB team coordinates with the VMC Trauma Center to train, properly fit, and distribute thousands of helmets each year to SCC residents.
What is Active and Safe Communities?
This HCB program focuses on implementing education, policy, systems, and environmental change to make the easy choice the healthy choice and promotes student advocacy on lunch menu changes through Cafeteria Promotions/Taste Tests.
What is the CalFresh Healthy Living Program?
This HCB program’s focus areas are cannabis and alcohol-related community education, policy technical assistance, and youth participatory action research.
What is the Substance Use Prevention Policy?
Prior to January 2025, the EPA defined THIS CONCEPT as ‘the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.’
What is Environmental Justice?
This quarterly event draws hundreds of community members to connect them to safety net resources, increase their food security, and offer other critical health resources.
What is the Story Road Hub Resource Fair?
Gilroy residents are putting their walking and pedestrian safety skills to the test thanks to this initiative that trained youth and community leaders to plan and lead active transportation education and encouragement activities.
What is Gilroy Moves?
Community health workers are helping HCB to address this number one cause of death in the county.
What is cancer?
This type of policy focuses on eliminating second-hand smoke within units and common areas of apartments, condos, and townhomes.
What is Smoke-Free Multi-Unit Housing?
The community-led violence prevention collaborative has been serving East San Jose since 2016.
What is the East San Jose PEACE Partnership?
This collaborative strives to promote brain health and integrate Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias prevention strategies as an emerging top public health issue in Santa Clara County by convening and educating community members, partners, and stakeholders.
What is Healthy Brain Collaborative?
This project became a clearly successful method and strategy for understanding food sovereignty and collecting stories from community members about access to healthy food in Gilroy, Mountain View, and East San Jose, California.
What is the Neighborhood Food Resiliency Project (a photovoice Qualitative Research project)?
This VMC menu pilot project has something in common with Kermit the Frog.
What is Greener by Default?
The town of Los Gatos and cities of Cupertino and Palo Alto participate in this partnership program to have DEH administer their tobacco retailing permit programs.
What is a County-City Partnership?
The month in which the Board made a proclamation for gun violence awareness.
What is the month of June, also known as Wear Orange Month internationally?
The Youth Participatory Action Research program, which supports organizations that empower youth to explore issues in their community and take action to reduce and prevent underage cannabis use, is funded by a grant from this state department.
What is The California Department of Public Health?
Please, don't call its Dashboard a "Report Card." When developing THIS PROGRAM before its formal launch in 2016, key city stakeholders provided the County with feedback like "How would you like it if we graded the County on its work?"
What is the Healthy Cities Program?
This program helped SCVH pediatric clinics link hundreds of patients to Second Harvest and fight food insecurity.
What is the Diabetes Prevention and Wellness Program?
This Santa Clara County Ordinance (most commonly known by its acronym) was updated in 2019 to include restrictions on the sale of all vaping products and again in 2022 to include updated fines & penalties.
What is the Tobacco Retail License (TRL) Ordinance?
This partner org helped the Healthy Brain Initiative in educating first responders on living with dementia.
What is the Alzheimer’s Association?
This program’s educational curriculum was integrated into the WIC program and has reached an estimated 5,000 individuals and 18,000 WIC families. Alongside the curriculum, nearly 1,000 Potter the Otter and Miguel books were distributed.
What is the Oral Health Program?