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 Effective Practice, Economy / Housing & Homes, Families, Urban
Goal: McAuley Village attempts to take poor single parents from a life of welfare dependence to one of independence. Although primarily a housing program, it also holistically addresses the many factors contributing to the vulnerability of these families, while attempting to tailor a solution to each family.
Filed under Effective Practice, Community / Social Environment
Goal: The goal of this program is to promote positive family relationships, help incarcerated fathers learn skills to be active and involved fathers, encourage incarcerated fathers to
provide financial support for their children, facilitate programs for offender families through community partnerships, and provide constructive opportunities for children to participate in special activities with their incarcerated father.
Filed under Good Idea, Education
Goal: McREL is a nonprofit, nonpartisan education research, development, and service organization that helps schools, districts, and education agencies improve outcomes for all students. We help school and system clients in all kinds of communities analyze their performance, identify the root causes of challenges, build their staff capacities, and find the under-used bright spots they can scale up to make an even bigger difference for every student.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Physical Activity, Adults
Goal: The Measure Up program helps participants lose weight and learn to live healthier lifestyles through better eating habits.
Impact: Participants of the Measure Up program receive personalized assistance from registered dietitians to improve eating and exercise habits.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Physical Activity, Children, Teens
Goal: Media-Smart Youth aims to stimulate youth to think about physical activity and nutrition by developing an awareness of the link between media and health.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Health Care Access & Quality, Older Adults, Urban
Goal: The goal of this program is to reduce medication-related problems among senior home health patients.
Filed under Effective Practice, Community / Transportation, Urban
Goal: The goal of this project was to support community revitalization, retain the integrity of an historic district, and provide transportation links to private land development projects.
Filed under Good Idea, Community / Domestic Violence & Abuse, Men, Urban
Goal: Men Unlearning Violence helps men transform their relationships with people and with themselves by learning to respond instead of react, and replacing control with intimacy.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Children's Health, Children
Goal: The purpose of CDR is to use the findings from the reviews to improve agency systems and to take action to prevent other deaths.
Filed under Effective Practice, Education / Childcare & Early Childhood Education, Children, Families
Goal: The program's mission is to help prepare children of migrant workers in California to be successful in school.