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, Art & Recreation / Music, Children
The program aims to provide an outlet for inpatient pediatric cancer patients to express their emotions through composing and performing music.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Children's Health, Children
The goal of this intervention was to reduce dental caries among children by promoting twice daily tooth brushing.
Supervised tooth brushing and positive reinforcement in a school setting decreased the rate of dental caries in participating children.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Alcohol & Drug Use, Children, Teens
The goal of this program is for youths to postpone alcohol use until adulthood.
Filed under Good Idea, Community / Crime & Crime Prevention, Families
The goal of beautification and restoration projects is to restore neighborhoods and communities in order to prevent criminal activity and encourage community engagement.
Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Air
-Increase the use of coal fly ash in concrete by 43 percent, from 14 million metric tons per year in 2001 to 20 million metric tons by 2010.
-Reduce greenhouse gas emissions from concrete production by approximately 6 million metric tons by 2010.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Mental Health & Mental Disorders, Adults, Urban
The mission of The Key Clubhouse is to afford people who have been disrupted by mental illness the opportunity to recover meaningful and productive lives through reintegration in the workplace and the community.
Individuals who participate in a Clubhouse program have been found to have higher rates of employment, reduced hospitalization, reduced incarceration, and improved well-being as compared with other mental health programs.
The Key Clubhouse of South Florida and Supportive Housing at Northside Commons (Miami-Dade County, FL)
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Mental Health & Mental Disorders, Adults, Urban
The mission of The Key Clubhouse is to afford people who have been disrupted by mental illness the opportunity to recover meaningful and productive lives through reintegration in the workplace and the community.
Filed under Good Idea, Education / Student Performance K-12, Children, Teens
The goal of the program is to match high school students to elementary school students in a mentoring relationship.
Filed under Effective Practice, Education / Childcare & Early Childhood Education, Children
The goal of ABRACADABRA is to build the literacy skills of young children.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Oral Health, Children
The goal of ABCD is to improve access to early pediatric preventative dental care for Medicaid-covered children.