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, Health / Health Care Access & Quality, Children, Urban
The goal of the program was to reduce barriers to dental care and increase the use of dental care among underserved children living in remote locations in Alaska.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Health Care Access & Quality, Older Adults, Urban
The goal of this program is to reduce medication-related problems among senior home health patients.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Health Care Access & Quality
-To identify and provide early intervention for those with or at risk for untreated or uncontrolled hypertension
-To screen and identify those at risk for cardiovascular and renal disease
-To educate those found at risk for CVD
-To provide early chronic disease intervention
-To facilitate access for long term chronic disease care with partner sites
Filed under Effective Practice, Economy / Employment
The goal of this program is to move employable TANF recipients into the workforce and to provide job retention support.
Filed under Effective Practice, Community / Crime & Crime Prevention, Children, Teens
The goal of this program is to provide effective and affordable treatment for juvenile offenders.
Filed under Effective Practice, Education / Childcare & Early Childhood Education, Children, Families
The program's mission is to help prepare children of migrant workers in California to be successful in school.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Mortality Data, Children, Older Adults, Urban
The goal of this program is to reduce heat-related morbidity and mortality in Milwaukee.
Filed under Effective Practice, Community / Crime & Crime Prevention, Children, Teens
The goal of this program is to Promote and enhance restorative justice dialogue, principles, and practices.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Respiratory Diseases, Children
The Mobile C.A.R.E. Foundation’s mission is to provide complimentary and comprehensive asthma care and education to children and families in Chicago’s underserved communities via mobile medical units called "Asthma Vans."
The Mobile C.A.R.E. Foundation’s Asthma Vans provide children and families in Chicago’s underserved communities with complimentary and comprehensive asthma care and education resulting in reduced school absenteeism, decreased ER visits and lower hospitalization rates.
Filed under Effective Practice, Community / Public Safety, Adults
The goal of this program is to raise awareness of the proper position of car head rests, and to encourage drivers to adjust their head rest to the appropriate height.