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.
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Filed under Effective Practice, Economy / Housing & Homes
Goal: The goal of this program is to promote economic survival and stability for vulnerable populations.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Alcohol & Drug Use, Women, Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Goal: The goal of this program is to reduce tobacco use among groups experiencing the most pronounced tobacco-related disparities.
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Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Food Safety, Urban
Goal: The goal of this program is to reduce the risk of foodborne illness outbreaks by educating licensed operators and food employees of proper food safety procedures.
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Filed under Effective Practice, Economy / Employment, Teens, Urban
Goal: Isles, Inc., is a nationally recognized nonprofit community development and environmental organization with the mission to foster more self-reliant families in healthy, sustainable communities.
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Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Toxins & Contaminants
Goal: The goal of the Mercury Challenge is to eliminate mercury from industrial sites.
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Filed under Good Idea, Community / Governance
Goal: The Project's central objective is to provide information to decision makers and training materials to add focus to important issues, clarify choices and improve the quality of decisions by making future opportunities and dangers more explicit. The Project is not a one-time study of the future, but provides an on-going capacity for global research and collaboration.
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Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Adolescent Health, Teens
Goal: The goal of the Initiative was to reduce youth tobacco use by 30% by 2005.
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Filed under Good Idea, Health / Heart Disease & Stroke, Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Goal: The goal of this program is to help prevent cardiovascular disease through education and interventions.
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Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Maternal, Fetal & Infant Health, Women
Goal: The goal is to reduce prenatal smoking, thereby improving the health of babies.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Children's Health, Children, Urban
Goal: To increase physical activity among children in a low-income urban neighborhood.