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, Economy / Government Assistance, Families
The goal of this program is to encourage eligible families to utilize the Earned Income Tax Credit.
Filed under Effective Practice, Community / Crime & Crime Prevention, Children, Teens, Urban
The goal of this program is to divert young first-time offenders from court into a restorative justice process in which the offender and victim negotiate a satisfactory solution.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Children's Health
The goal of the IAQ TfS program is to provide schools with easy ways to improve air quality in classrooms.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Maternal, Fetal & Infant Health, Children
The goal of this program was to reduce health and developmental problems for low-birth-weight and premature infants.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Children's Health, Children, Families
Effective asthma control can improve quality of life, reduce medical costs, and reduce the number of asthma-related emergency department visits, hospitalizations, school and work days missed, days of restricted activity, and deaths each year.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Cancer, Women
The goal of the Inside Knowledge campaign is to increase knowledge and awareness about the signs and symptoms of the five major gynecologic cancers.
Filed under Effective Practice, Community / Crime & Crime Prevention, Children
The goal of this program is to reduce recidivism rates for serious felony juvenile offenders.
Filed under Effective Practice, Community / Crime & Crime Prevention, Children, Teens
The goal of this program is to prevent recidivism among juvenile offenders placed on probation for known gang-related behavior or substance abuse offenses.
Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Energy & Sustainability
Interface's sustainability goals involve reducing their greenhouse gas emissions, reducing non-renewable energy use, and increasing renewable energy use in their production process.
Intervention Mapping and the Development of a Peer Supported Diabetes Self-Management Program in Rural Alabama (Alabama)
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Diabetes, Teens, Older Adults, Racial/Ethnic Minorities, Rural
The intervention is a diabetes self-management program that utilizes peer advisers to reach patients who have poor health literacy, are physically isolated, and require assistance with managing their diabetes.