Share Your Policy, Systems, and Environmental Change Stories

Create and customize your own success story today!

Impact. Progress. Value. It's what success stories are all about. CDC's Healthy Communities Program Success Stories Web site is a free online tool to help you turn your success into strong, professional, polished documents. These compelling stories can engage congress, community leaders, and other decision makers in your policy, systems, and environmental change strategies.

This Web site, an innovative resource accessible to CDC's Healthy Communities Program grantees as well as the public, collects stories detailing the work supported by the CDC. These stories illustrate the real-world impact of implementing policies that sustain environmental and systems changes that address the major risk factors—tobacco, physical inactivity, and unhealthy eating. The Web site includes a number of helpful features to users:

Easy-to-use tool to develop your story.
Guidance on how to write a success story.
A downloadable worksheet to begin the pre-writing process.
Three professionally developed templates to share with your stakeholders.
A free photo library.
Archive of success stories that you can search and share.

You are the key to developing a great collection of stories that highlight your community's hard work and dedication to preventing chronic diseases. By building this archive together, we can learn more about the impact of implementing policy, systems, and environmental change strategies that can help prevent chronic diseases. Let's Get Started!

CDC - Success Stories - Healthy Communities Program
CDC - Success Stories - Healthy Communities Program