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 / Cancer, Women
The goal of this program is to provide routine cancer screenings to the underserved population of incarcerated women in Indiana.
Filed under Effective Practice, Education / Student Performance K-12, Children, Teens, Adults, Urban
The goal of the program is to provide at-risk youth with mentorship and employment skills.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Adolescent Health, Teens, Urban
To meet the housing needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth ages 18-24.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Children's Health, Children
The primary goal of Shots for Tots is to increase public awareness and provide reliable opportunities to immunize 0-2 year olds.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Physical Activity, Children, Adults, Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Change The Future WV emphasizes improving access to healthy food options and safe environments for physical activity to create healthier communities in the Mid-Ohio Valley.
Change The Future WV has launched multiple community and school-based interventions to improve dietary behaviors and physical fitness in the Mid-Ohio Valley.
Filed under Effective Practice, Community / Public Safety, Children
The goal of this program is to increase booster seat use among children aged 4 to 8 years.
Filed under Effective Practice, Education / Childcare & Early Childhood Education, Children
The central goal of CDP is to help schools become "caring communities of learners" by offering an environment of caring, supportive, and collaborative relationships to build students' sense of community in school and to promote school bonding.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Children's Health, Children, Urban
The CCP is a part of a comprehensive childhood lead poisoning program that seeks to eradicate childhood lead poisoning in Milwaukee by the year 2010.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Children's Health, Children
The goals of this program are to identify children at risk for chronic lead poisoning, to decrease blood lead levels in chronically poisoned children, and to help families find stable, lead-free housing.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Immunizations & Infectious Diseases, Teens, Adults, Urban
The goal of the program is to reduce the spread of STDs/STIs in high risk populations under 25 years old by decreasing the length of time from diagnosis to treatment.