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, Community / Social Environment, Teens
FirstPlace for Youth seeks to fill the gap in services available to youth transitioning out of the foster care system to independent living.
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 Good Idea, Health / Immunizations & Infectious Diseases, Children, Families, Racial/Ethnic Minorities, Urban
The goal of Immunize LA Kids is to improve immunization rates among children.
Filed under Effective Practice, Community / Crime & Crime Prevention, Children
The goal of this program is to reduce recidivism rates for serious felony juvenile offenders.
Filed under Good Idea, Community / Social Environment, Children, Adults, Families, Urban
The goal of Parent Voices is to improve access to child care for all families through advocacy.
Filed under Effective Practice, Education / Literacy, Children, Teens, Urban
Partners in School Innovation enables public schools in high-poverty Bay Area communities to achieve educational equity through school-based reform.
Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Toxins & Contaminants, Urban
The goal of the Coalition was to encourage the EPA to add dioxins as reportable chemicals unter the Toxics Release Inventory
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Children's Health, Children, Rural
The goal of this program is to improve immunization rates in Madera County.
Filed under Effective Practice, Education / Literacy, Children, Urban
Reading Partners mission is to help children become lifelong readers by empowering communities to provide individualized instruction with measurable results.
Filed under Effective Practice, Community / Crime & Crime Prevention, Children, Teens
The goal of the program is to prevent young offenders from becoming chronic delinquents.