EDC is building digital health tools that can deliver care to those in need anywhere, anytime.
EDC identifies opportunities to promote individual, family, and community health and address disparities. We break down barriers to reach the medically underserved and improve the delivery of coordinated, evidence-based prevention and treatment services. Our programs reach the young and the elderly—and their caregivers—in diverse settings, including clinics, hospitals, schools, Head Start programs and child care centers, community programs, senior centers, and assisted living.
We develop community-level health communications campaigns as well as face-to-face and online training programs for physicians, nurses, mental health counselors, and allied health providers. We design digital health tools for reaching busy professionals and for providing consumers with self-management support.
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Resources
Here are a few of our resources on behavioral, physical, and mental health. To see more, visit our Resources section.
STEPS to Care e-Tools is a set of public health strategies for individuals at the highest risk of dropping out of HIV care.
As noted in its executive summary, this report looks at school meals “aid delivery through different windows, both to shed light on financial flows—and to explore discrepancies in the data.” It hig
The Children’s Safety Network (CSN) is a national resource center for the prevention of childhood injuries and violence.
This report explores the potential benefits of theory-based logic models in trauma-informed initiatives
This case study is one of the Sustainable Finance Initiative’s seven rapid country case studies studying the state of school meals programs.
This case study spotlights the University of North Carolina Hillsborough Hospital’s implementation of the Elder Mistreatment Emergency Department Toolkit to identify and respond to elder m
EDC led the development of this comprehensive toolbox during its leadership of the Center of Excellence for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (IECMHC). The toolbox offers a wide array of interactive planning tools, guides, videos, and other resources to support IECMHC efforts in states, tribes, and communities.
Education Development Center (EDC), with funding from the Office for Victims of Crime, has developed the self-guided training manual H.O.P.E.: Suicide Training for American Indian and Alaska Na
This is an invited memo offering an investment case for school health and nutrition programs that was prepared for the Spring 2022 Meeting of the Global Education Forum (GEF).
This policy brief is the first of a series from the Sustainable Financing Initiative of the School Meals Coalition.