Promising Practices
The Promising Practices database informs professionals and community members about documented approaches to improving community health and quality of life.
The ultimate goal is to support the systematic adoption, implementation, and evaluation of successful programs, practices, and policy changes. The database provides carefully reviewed, documented, and ranked practices that range from good ideas to evidence-based practices.
Learn more about the ranking methodology.
Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Air, Children
The program aims to accomplish two things in Central California: (1) permanently change local policy with respect to existing operating procedures in school districts and schools to help reduce exposure of students, teachers, staff and nearly communities to outdoor environmental asthma triggers ;and (2) provide education on air quality and potential health effects from exposure to air pollutants.
Filed under Effective Practice, Economy / Employment, Children, Urban
The goal of this program is to provide flexible, nurturing education and child care for working families.
Filed under Effective Practice, Education / Literacy, Children, Teens, Urban
Partners in School Innovation enables public schools in high-poverty Bay Area communities to achieve educational equity through school-based reform.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Immunizations & Infectious Diseases, Adults
To eliminate or reduce sex risk behaviors and eliminate or reduce illicit drug use among HIV-positive clinic patients.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Immunizations & Infectious Diseases, Teens, Women, Racial/Ethnic Minorities, Urban
The goal of Project ORE is to use a friendship-based sexual education intervention to prevent HIV/STI transmission in high-risk urban African American adolescent girls.
Filed under Good Idea, Community / Domestic Violence & Abuse, Teens, Adults, Urban
The goal of Project SURVIVE is to end all forms of power abuse in relationships, social groups, and public institutions.
Filed under Effective Practice, Education / Childcare & Early Childhood Education, Children, Families, Urban
Raising A Reader's mission is to foster healthy brain development, encourage parent and child bonding through reading together and facilitate future school success by increasing reading skills.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Adolescent Health, Teens, Urban
To provide housing to homeless youth aged 18 to 24 and provide comprehensive behavioral health services.
Filed under Effective Practice, Education / Student Performance K-12, Children, Teens, Urban
Spark's mission is to provide life-changing apprenticeships to youth in underserved communities across the United States.
Filed under Good Idea, Economy / Investment & Personal Finance, Families, Urban
The goal of SparkPoint is to help low-income families create step-by-step plans to help them get out of poverty and achieve long-term financial stability.