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.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
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.
Supporting At-Risk Youth with Summer High School Preparatory Programs (Cherokee-Graham-Swain Counties, NC)
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Good Idea, Education / Student Performance K-12, Children, Teens
Goal: The goal is to help prepare at-risk youth to develop their academic skills and self-confidence for as they transition from middle school to high school.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Older Adults, Older Adults
Goal: The goal of the program is to reduce medical costs, to prevent premature institutionalization, and to save taxpayers' dollars. Additionally, the program aims to prevent depression among the elderly, reduce daily living activity limitations caused by chronic diseases and lack of exercise, and increase the quality of life among the older adults.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Adolescent Health, Teens
Goal: The goal of this project is to give teenagers a meaningful and valuable way to help other teens improve their health and well-being through the positive messages they incorporate in their videos.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Adolescent Health, Teens
Goal: The goal of this program is to provide adolescents with the knowledge and skills to act in ways that enhance their immediate and long-term health.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Health Care Access & Quality, Children, Families, Rural
Goal: The main goal of this project is to reduce the time that a child spends out of the classroom recuperating from an acute illness. This goal is based on the fact that TeleKidcare® transforms the school health room from a triage center to a site of care. TeleKidcare® also addresses the shared community goal of keeping children healthy and in school learning by providing health care service to children at school.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Effective Practice, Economy / Housing & Homes
Goal: The goal of this program is to create affordable housing targeted for low- and moderate-income first-time home buyers in downtown Boston.
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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 Good Idea, Health / Alcohol & Drug Use, Women, Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Goal: The goal of this program is to reduce tobacco use among groups experiencing the most pronounced tobacco-related disparities.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Good Idea, Education / School Environment
Goal: The overall mission of this initiative is to develop an active, healthy community. Goals of this initiative include increasing the number of children walking or biking to school, and developing opportunities for Garfield's children and families to be more physically active and eat more healthily.