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 / Children's Health, Children, Urban
Goal: The goal of this partnership is to provide a healthy breakfast to low-income students to help them perform better in school.
Filed under Effective Practice, Education / Literacy, Children
Goal: The goal of this program is to improve reading skills for beginner readers.
Filed under Effective Practice, Education / Literacy, Children, Teens, Urban
Goal: Partners in School Innovation enables public schools in high-poverty Bay Area communities to achieve educational equity through school-based reform.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Older Adults, Older Adults
Goal: The project seeks to model how the aging network in partnership with a managed care plan can improve the health outcomes for older adults.
Filed under Good Idea, Economy / Housing & Homes
Goal: The goal of this program is to end homelessness for families by combining the case management component of transitional programs with quicker access to permanent housing.
Filed under Good Idea, Community / Crime & Crime Prevention, Urban
Goal: The goal of Peacekeepers is to prevent violence among youth in the Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco.
Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Toxins & Contaminants, Urban
Goal: The goal of the Coalition was to encourage the EPA to add dioxins as reportable chemicals unter the Toxics Release Inventory
Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Air
Goal: EPA's partners have committed to reduce PFC emissions 10 percent below their 1995 baseline by 2010.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Children's Health, Children, Rural
Goal: The goal of this program is to improve immunization rates in Madera County.
Filed under Good Idea, Education / Student Performance K-12, Teens
Goal: To reduce truancy in high school.