Sustainable, long-term behavior change can happen at the community level: in schools, parent workplaces, service groups, music groups, organizations, faith-based groups, libraries, community/cultural groups, clubs, on Native American reservations, and in government. We will need all of us to rise to the occasion to promote hearing health everywhere, by being good Dangerous Decibels educators in the classroom AND great role models in our communities. Any group that you personally belong to or have a connection to, is a potential avenue to bring hearing health promotion into your community.

In the pacific northwest, a community-based program was initiated to promote hearing health in Native American communities. The program was called “Listen for Life”.