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, Environmental Health / Energy & Sustainability, Urban
Goal: Qualcomm's energy goals include maximizing energy efficiency in all new construction, retrofitting existing buildings to incorporate efficiency technologies, and identifying and implementing demand reduction strategies.
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Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Energy & Sustainability
Goal: The goals of Transwestern's energy audits are to save energy and money and to contribute to saving the environment and assuring reliable energy in the local communities in which it operates.
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Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Children's Health, Children, Teens, Families, Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Goal: Healthy Hoops uses a holistic approach to not only enhance disease management and health outcomes, but also improve quality of life, helping children live healthy and happier lives.
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Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Toxins & Contaminants
Goal: Specific goals of this program include:
- Virtually eliminating mercury-containing waste from health care facilities' waste streams by 2005
- Reducing the overall volume of waste (both regulated and non-regulated waste) by 33 percent by 2005 and by 50 percent by 2010
- Identifying hazardous substances for pollution prevention and waste reduction opportunities, including hazardous chemicals and persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic pollutants
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Filed under Good Idea, Environmental Health / Toxins & Contaminants
Goal: The goal of the program is to encourage, through recognition, networking, and case example distribution, the minimization of hazardous and industrial wastes, particularly those waste streams containing one or more of the 31 priority chemicals. Under the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA), EPA has established a goal of reducing the amount of Priority Chemicals reported to the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) by ten percent by 2008, using the year 2001 as a baseline.
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Filed under Good Idea, Economy / Poverty, Children, Teens, Women, Families, Urban
Goal: The program aimed to assist young mothers receiving welfare in achieving economic independence and nurturing their children's development.
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Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Alcohol & Drug Use, Children, Teens, Urban
Goal: The goal of this program is to help youths identify and resist peer and other social pressures to smoke, drink, and engage in sexual activity.
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Filed under Good Idea, Health / Older Adults
Goal: The goal of this program is to use a team model to offer practical, emotional, and spiritual support to individuals and families with health care concerns or other special needs.
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Filed under Effective Practice, Education / Student Performance K-12, Children
Goal: To promote and maintain successful mentoring relationships between youth and adults.
CDC COMMUNITY GUIDE: Increasing Tobacco Use Cessation: Mass Media Campaigns When Combined with Other Interventions (USA)
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Filed under Good Idea, Health / Alcohol & Drug Use, Teens, Adults
Impact: The Task Force did not have enough evidence to determine whether the intervention is or is not effective. This does not mean that the intervention does not work, but rather that additional research is needed to determine whether or not the intervention is effective.