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.
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Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Alcohol & Drug Use, Teens, Families
Goal: This program is designed to improve parent-child communication skills as a way of improving and maintaining healthy decision-making.
Transcendental Meditation Stress Reduction Intervention for Congestive Heart Failure (Philadelphia, PA)
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Heart Disease & Stroke, Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Goal: The goal of the intervention is to use meditation to improve health and reduce the risk of heart failure among older African Americans with congestive heart failure.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Physical Activity, Children
Goal: To increase fruit and vegetable consumption among children using a multi-component approach.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Immunizations & Infectious Diseases, Teens, Urban
Goal: The goal of AIDS Prevention for Adolescents in Schools was to use a teacher-delivered curriculum to improve knowledge and beliefs about AIDS, and develop self-efficacy related to AIDS-preventive actions among students.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Community / Public Safety, Children
Goal: The goal of this project was to improve children's road-related behavior and to enhance the safety of their road environment.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Children's Health, Children
Goal: The goal of this pilot study was to assess the feasibility of garden-based education programs for elementary-school students in order to develop and evaluate a comprehensive, garden-enhanced nutrition education program for elementary students.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Education / School Environment, Children
Goal: The Good Behavior Game (GBG) is designed to improve aggressive/disruptive classroom behavior and prevent later criminality.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Immunizations & Infectious Diseases, Adults, Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Goal: The goal of Modelo de Intervencion Psicomedica is to reduce high-risk behaviors that can lead to infection and transmission of HIV among intravenous drug users.
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Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Alcohol & Drug Use, Children
Goal: The goal of the curriculum is to prevent injury and death of children and youth due to alcohol-related incidents.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Adolescent Health, Teens
Goal: The goal of the program was to reduce the risk for pregnancy or sexually transmitted disease by one or more of the following behaviors: a delay in initiating sexual intercourse; a reduction in the number of sexual partners and acts of intercourse; or an increase in contraception use.