Office of Child and Adolescent Risk Reduction Strategies

Healthy children lead to healthy adults. By focusing on the whole school, the whole community, and the whole child, we can improve health outcomes in Georgia.

The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) supports youth, schools, communities and caregivers by—

Creating asthma-friendly and tobacco-free environments
Providing asthma self-management education
Encouraging medical providers to follow guidelines-based care for asthma management
Focusing on positive youth development as early as 5th grade
Preventing teen pregnancy
Preventing sexual violence
Preventing bullying
Preventing adverse childhood experiences