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 Good Idea, Health / Older Adults, Older Adults
Goal: The goal of the center is to help members achieve total health, fitness, and wellness.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Older Adults, Adults, Older Adults
Goal: The goal of The Bridge Model of Transitional Care is to help aging adults transition from the hospital back to their homes and communities safely.
Impact: The Bridge Model of Transitional Care can help lower hospital re-admission rates as well as improve primary care engagement 30 days after being discharged from the hospital.
Filed under Good Idea, Community / Social Environment, Urban
Goal: One of the primary goals of Bronx Center is to ensure that area residents and businesses gain access to as many jobs, both construction and permanent, and contracting opportunities as possible. Other goals include renovating the Bronx Borough Courthouse and transforming it into The Bronx Planning Center and improving education, housing, and the economic state of the community.
Filed under Good Idea, Community / Transportation
Goal: The goal of this project is to make the streets more pedestrian friendly and supportive of active living.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Alcohol & Drug Use, Children, Adults
Goal: The Mission of California's Tobacco Control Section (TCS) is to improve the health of all Californians by reducing illness and premature death attributable to the use of tobacco products.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Health Care Access & Quality, Children, Adults, Older Adults
Goal: The goal of the CARES program is to decrease barriers and improve access to dental care.
Filed under Good Idea, Community / Public Safety, Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Goal: The mission of the program is to develop cultural understanding and to forge relationships between police officers and citizens of Austin in order to provide better community service.
Filed under Good Idea, Environmental Health / Energy & Sustainability
Goal: To promote social change and environmental responsibility, reduce carbon output and enable local schools and centers to develop and maintain effective composting and vermiculture systems.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Physical Activity, Teens, Women, Urban
Goal: The program offers an integrated food experience to students and expectant mothers attending an alternative high school.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Children's Health, Children
Goal: The goal of the Crest Cavity-Free Zone Program is to improve the oral health of underprivileged children.
Impact: The educational program was effective in promoting improved oral health in these children over a four-week period.