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 / Transportation, Children, Teens, Adults, Families
Goal: The goal of the program was to provide an outdoor recreational and bicycle commuting trail along an abandoned railway line in Georgia.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Oral Health, Children, Families
Goal: The Smile Programs... the mobile dentists mission is to bring state-of-the-art, dental care to those students in need in the most comfortable and effective way possible.
Impact: Smile Programs provides mobile dental care to children in schools in over a dozen states.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Mental Health & Mental Disorders, Teens
Goal: The program's primary objectives are to educate teens that depression is a treatable illness and to equip them to respond to a potential suicide in a friend or family member using the SOS technique.
Filed under Good Idea, Art & Recreation / Art, Children, Teens, Adults, Older Adults, Urban
Goal: SpeakOut allows individuals to share their personal stories, through song, poetry, and music, and enjoy a sense of camaraderie and love with their listeners.
Filed under Good Idea, Education / Childcare & Early Childhood Education, Children, Families
Goal: The project's goal is to identify children with disabilities and other special needs at an early age and provide those identified with the appropriate support so they can be successful when entering kindergarten.
Filed under Good Idea, Economy / Employment, Adults
Goal: Specialisterne provides training, education and employment for people with autism and similar challenges.
Impact: Specialisterne seeks to enable one million jobs worldwide for a target population that would otherwise face substantial barriers to employment.
Filed under Effective Practice, Community / Transportation, Children, Urban
Goal: The goal of the Springfield Safe Communities project was to reduce the number of alcohol-related traffic crash fatalities, and to increase seat belt use throughout the city and surrounding areas.
St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center Community-Building/Vocational Services Initiative (Syracuse, NY)
Filed under Good Idea, Community / Social Environment, Adults, Urban
Goal: The goal of St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center's Community-Building/Vocational Services Initiative is to revitalize the neighborhood by increasing community development and job placement.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Oral Health, Children, Older Adults, Urban
Goal: The goal of St. Peter's Dental Program is to improve access to dental care and treatment for the poor, elderly, and under served populations living in and around Albany, New York.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Women's Health, Adults, Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Goal: The goal of this screening program is to increase cancer education and screening among men and women of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.