Evidence Step:
Outputs
Priority Area:
Workforce Development and Employment
Program Demographic:
Adolescents / Young Adults, Adults, Persons with Disability
Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS) prepare students with disabilities to achieve their employment and postsecondary education goals after high school. Services include counseling in postsecondary education, career exploration, self-advocacy, workplace readiness, and work-based learning.
Evidence Step:
Outcomes
Program Demographic:
Adolescents / Young Adults, Adults, Aging Adults, Businesses / Entrepreneurs, Children, Communities, Families, Gender-specific, Infancy / Early Childhood, Justice-involved, Persons with Disability, Rural Focus, Veterans
The Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant provides flexible, core funding for prevention and health promotion activities in Tennessee. The grant covers several primary areas including: cancer prevention, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, community-based prevention services, healthy weight, injury prevention, dental and oral health services, and poison control.
Evidence Step:
Outcomes
Priority Area:
Strong Families and Communities
Program Demographic:
Adults, Rural Focus
TDH’s Primary Care program provides primary care services to uninsured and underinsured Tennesseans in 52 counties (57 Local Health Department Sites), increasing access to quality healthcare. Our clinics offer comprehensive services such as managing chronic conditions like high blood pressure and diabetes, including necessary labs and medications, preventive services such as cancer screenings and immunizations, urgent care for common illnesses and minor injuries, and referrals to specialty care and community resources. These services are affordable, accessible, and designed to help patients stay healthy, manage long-term conditions, and reduce unnecessary hospital visits.
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services
Evidence Step:
Strong Evidence
Priority Area:
Strong Families and Communities
Program Demographic:
Adults, Families
The Problem Gambling Treatment Services Program is a multi-purpose program designed to increase knowledge about problem and/or pathological gambling for those persons at risk, their families, and the general community; to identify and assess those with problem and/or pathological gambling conditions and provide outpatient treatment services if needed; and to continually assess regional needs and coordinate outreach activities for potential service recipients.
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services
Evidence Step:
Outputs
Program Demographic:
Adults, Children
Project BASIC (Better Attitudes and Skills in Children) is a school-based mental health early intervention and prevention program. The program targets students from kindergarten to third grade, providing early identification and intervention, teacher consultation and classroom programming to promote positive attitudes and mental health wellness concepts. Families with students at high risk of emotional disturbances are linked to community services and treatment services.
Evidence Step:
Evidence
Priority Area:
Strong Families and Communities
Program Demographic:
Adults, Children, Communities, Families
Project Diabetes is a grant program that funds prevention projects that focus on changing policies, systems, and/or the environment to support healthier lifestyles in communities. Recent focus areas center on food and beverage accessibility and increasing physical activity. Approaches to PSE change help highlight how communities function, including how resources are allocated and how services are delivered, and the influence of those systems and structures on community health before the onset of illness.
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services
Evidence Step:
Strong Evidence
Priority Area:
Strong Families and Communities
Program Demographic:
Adolescents / Young Adults, Adults, Children, Infancy / Early Childhood, Rural Focus
Project Rural Recovery provides mobile, integrated primary, mental health, and substance abuse services to rural Tennesseans of all ages regardless of ability to pay. This program uses several evidence-based strategies including, Behavioral Health Integration (BHI), Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT), Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT), Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS), Individual Placement and Support (IPS), and Trauma Informed Care (TIC).
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services
Evidence Step:
Outputs
Priority Area:
Strong Families and Communities
Program Demographic:
Adults
Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH) assists individuals experiencing homelessness who have mental illness or co-occurring disorders. The program provides community-based outreach services to connect individuals to mental health, substance abuse, case management, and other support services as well as limited housing services. Many of the services, strategies, and partners utilized in PATH, including motivational interviewing and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), are evidence-based. The Children and Youth Homeless Outreach Project provides outreach and case management for homeless families or those at risk of homelessness to identify children and youth with Severe Emotional Disturbances (SED) or at risk of SED. The program then assists parents to secure needed mental health services for children and other family members in need. Assistance to find or restore secure housing is also provided including temporary financial assistance with rent, utilities, and other needs that will assist the child with SED and help keep the family intact. Some strategies used in this program, like motivational interviewing, are evidence-based.
Economic and Community Development
Evidence Step:
Outputs
Priority Area:
Rural Development and Conservation
Program Demographic:
Communities
The Property Evaluation Program helps communities improve their inventory of industrial sites and buildings in Tennessee by evaluating potential properties, advising counties on where investment may be most beneficial and what steps are needed to address issues.
Evidence Step:
Outputs
Program Demographic:
Aging Adults, Persons with Disability
The Tennessee Public Guardianship for the Elderly program provides conservatorship services to Tennesseans aged 60 or older, with mental or physical limitations, who are unable to manage their own affairs and who have no one willing and able to act on their behalf. This includes decision-making support for personal decisions regarding their health and financial resources.
Evidence Step:
Outcomes
Priority Area:
Rural Development and Conservation
Program Demographic:
Adults
The Public Health Emergency Preparedness program ensures readiness for health and medical emergencies through the development of strategic partnerships, plans, exercises, and a continuous quality improvement mindset. The program focus is to demonstrate return on investment for critical infrastructure built over time.
Evidence Step:
Outcomes
Program Demographic:
Adolescents / Young Adults, Adults, Communities
The Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) trains communities in sexual violence prevention strategies. RPE uses some evidence based training programs, including Shifting Boundaries and Green Dot.
