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, Education, Adults, Urban
Goal: Project QUEST strengthens the economy and transforms lives by preparing individuals for in-demand, living wage careers.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Immunizations & Infectious Diseases, Adults
Goal: The goal of Project ReConnect is to enable HIV-positive people to explore career, educational, and volunteer activities and to de-stigmatize HIV through education and advocacy.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Disabilities, Teens, Adults
Goal: Project Search aims to engage an underutilized workforce of individuals with significant disabilities while addressing employer human resource needs that ultimately benefits individuals, organizations, and the community.
Filed under Effective Practice, Economy / Employment
Goal: The goal of this program is to increase employment opportunities for qualified persons with disabilities and to advocate on behalf of their employment to other organizations in their communities.
Filed under Good Idea, Community / Civic Engagement, Teens, Older Adults, Racial/Ethnic Minorities, Urban
Goal: The goal of Project SHINE is to build strong, healthy, and sustainable communities by fostering positive growth and relationships among its participants.
Filed under Effective Practice, Education / Student Performance K-12, Children, Teens
Goal: The goal of Project SOAR is to promote academic success among youth at Galveston Elementary School.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Alcohol & Drug Use, Teens
Goal: The goal of Project SUCCESS is to prevent and reduce substance abuse in high-risk middle-school and high-school aged adolescents.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Alcohol & Drug Use, Teens
Goal: The goal of Project SUCCESS is to prevent and reduce substance abuse in high-risk middle-school and high-school aged adolescents.
Filed under Good Idea, Community / Domestic Violence & Abuse, Teens, Adults, Urban
Goal: The goal of Project SURVIVE is to end all forms of power abuse in relationships, social groups, and public institutions.
Filed under Good Idea, Environmental Health / Toxins & Contaminants
Goal: The goal of Project SWAT is to reduce the population of mosquitoes potentially carrying West Nile Virus by applying larvicide to common breeding habitats.