Guidebooks

Preventing Chronic Disease: A Guide For Local Health Departments (web and PDF versions)

This community-based approach to chronic disease prevention in underserved populations at high risk for disease focuses on organizing many segments of the community.

Chronic Disease Prevention: A Framework for Contra Costa County

Chronic disease is the leading killer in Contra Costa and the single biggest cause of diminished quality of life.

Healthy Neighborhoods Project: A Guide for Community Building and Mobilizing Around Health (1.3MB PDF, 102pp.)

Presents a strategy that health departments and other agencies can use for improving community health, describing the asset-based, community building model of the Healthy Neighborhoods Project and how it has been implemented in our county.

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Regional Resource Guides (Contra Costa Crisis Center)

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