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, Environmental Health / Built Environment
The goal of GreenScapes is to encourage companies and organizations to make more environmentally conscious landscaping decisions and to reduce, reuse, recycle and rebuy.
Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Toxins & Contaminants, Urban
The goal of this program is to ensure that city planning and policy making accounts for how land use development impacts community health resources.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Physical Activity, Children, Families
The goal of the HEAL initiative is empower communities to make changes in their physical and social environment to improve nutrition and physical activity.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Adolescent Health, Children, Teens, Families
The program aims to provide comprehensive, family-centered health care for adolescent parents and their children.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Immunizations & Infectious Diseases, Women, Men, Racial/Ethnic Minorities
To eliminate or reduce sexual transmission risk behavior, to eliminate or reduce injection drug use risks and to improve health care practices and quality of life among people living with HIV.
Filed under Good Idea, Economy / Employment, Teens, Adults, Urban
HIRED's mission is to provide personalized and innovative work solutions.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Immunizations & Infectious Diseases, Adults
HIV Big Deal seeks to promote safer sex practices among men who have sex with men via internet-based video drama.
Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Toxins & Contaminants
- direct reduction of 6,000-7,500 kg of lead use on vehicles in Michigan and the Midwest;
- demonstrate the viability of lead-free wheel weight installation at Michigan tire retailers, state and municipal fleets and other points vehicle service and:
- encourage domestic production of lead-free wheel weights and a phase out of lead use in wheel weights.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Physical Activity, Children, Urban
The mission of Live Well Omaha Kids is to help all children living in Omaha achieve improvements in nutrition and physical activity.
Medical-Legal Partnerships: Investing in Social Services as a Core Strategy for Healthcare (New York City)
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Health Care Access & Quality, Children, Teens, Adults, Urban
New York City LegalHealth is a fruitful partnership that operates in 11 clinics of the city's public hospitals. One example is by supporting individuals in tenant-landlord disputes.
With an average of $225 per case, LegalHealth was able to effectively demand fixes in asthma patients' living conditions. This impact directly resulted in a 90% drop in emergency room visits and hospital admissions for this asthma patient group.