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 Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Mental Health & Mental Disorders, Children
The mission of the Institute on Violence and Destructive Behavior (IVDB) is to empower schools and social service agencies to address violence and destructive behavior, at the point of school entry and beyond, in order to ensure safety and to facilitate the academic achievement and healthy social development of children and youth. The primary goal of this program is to divert antisocial kindergartners from an antisocial behavior pattern during their subsequent school careers and to develop in them the competencies needed to build effective teacher- and peer-related, social-behavioral adjustments.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Physical Activity, Children
To improve children's nutritional status, increase their activity level, enhance their self-esteem, and create life-long health habits by using a multidisciplinary, community- and family-based system approach, and by engaging local health care professionals with community agencies.
The Fit Kids/Fit Families program shows that multidisciplinary, community- and family-based approaches to children's exercise, weight, & nutrition can have an effect on healthier nutritional choices, increased physical activity, decreased sedentary activity, healthier behaviors, and BMI reductions.
Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Toxins & Contaminants, Urban
The goal of this program was to reduce energy usage by 10 to 20 percent.
Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Energy & Sustainability
The goal of this project was to provide a safe fresh-water supply in an efficient manner.
Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Toxins & Contaminants, Rural
The goal of this project was to reduce electricity usage by 10-20 percent.
Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Energy & Sustainability, Urban
The goal of this program was to reduce energy usage at the San Diego State Office Building.
Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Energy & Sustainability, Urban
The goal of this project was to reduce energy usage at the San Francisco Civic Center.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Heart Disease & Stroke, Adults
The program aims to prevent the onset of severe hypertension in habitually active mildly hypertensive adults with a 12-week intermittent football-based or endurance running training.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Children's Health, Children
The goal of the FRIENDS Programs is to teach cognitive-behavioral skills to reduce anxiety in elementary school students who are or were exposed to violence.
The FRIENDS Programs and specific studies of them indicate that school-based anxiety prevention programs can increase standardized mathematics achievement scores, decrease life stressors, and reduce victimization by community violence in children.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Older Adults, Older Adults
The goal of this tool is to improve patient care for older adults by helping nurses to evaluate common conditions.