The phrase "encouraged to avoid" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when suggesting that someone should refrain from a particular action or behavior.
Example: "Students are encouraged to avoid distractions while studying to improve their focus."
Alternatives: "advised to steer clear of" or "urged to refrain from".
Losers are encouraged to avoid polite society.
The children also were regularly encouraged to avoid sugary drinks.
Better prepared prosecution cases also means fewer defendants being encouraged to avoid admitting their criminality.
With their backs to one of the nation's most forlorn urban landscapes, the fronts -- devoid of windows -- look out on an ocean that gamblers are encouraged to avoid.
They were encouraged to avoid commercially made cookies, cakes and pastries and to limit their consumption of dairy products and processed meats.
It's true that stress can be a health risk, and that we're often encouraged to avoid it if we want to live happy, productive, and long lives.
Students celebrate the changing of the seasons, practice eurythmy, a form a dance that supporters said helps students connect with the rhythms of nature, use watercolors as a means to control aggression, and are encouraged to avoid TV.
Furthermore, the report found, recruiters are often encouraged to avoid directly answering questions about costs and instead emphasize that with federal aid, student will pay little out of pocket.
With the help of one of Stratton's ever-present, genial ambassadors near the base lodge, we were encouraged to avoid the Sun Bowl section because it was so, well, sunny (i.e., slushy).
Since then his administration has largely focused its policies on supporting small- and medium-sized businesses and on agriculture in the interior, where state police were encouraged to avoid confrontation in land seizures by the Landless Workers Movement.
Night-time use is also encouraged to avoid contractures.
