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.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Community / Public Safety, Adults
Goal: The goal of this program is to increase seat belt use through interactive road signs and law enforcement.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Alcohol & Drug Use, Children, Teens, Rural
Goal: The goal of this program is to prevent young athletes from using spit tobacco.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Health Care Access & Quality, Children
Goal: The goal of the TEDAS program is to reduce the number of pediatric asthma-related emergency room visits.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Food Safety, Children, Adults, Racial/Ethnic Minorities, Rural
Goal: The goal of the Abuela Project is to reduce the number of cases of salmonellosis caused by Salmonella Typhimurium due to consumption of queso fresco made from raw-milk in Yakima County, Washington.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Effective Practice, Economy / Housing & Homes
Goal: The goal of this program is to promote economic survival and stability for vulnerable populations.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Good Idea, Community / Governance
Goal: The Project's central objective is to provide information to decision makers and training materials to add focus to important issues, clarify choices and improve the quality of decisions by making future opportunities and dangers more explicit. The Project is not a one-time study of the future, but provides an on-going capacity for global research and collaboration.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Maternal, Fetal & Infant Health, Teens, Women
Goal: The goal of the program was to reduce Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and encourage zero alcohol use by pregnant women through educational and social marketing techniques for select target groups.
Impact: The NineZero program increased knowledge regarding FAS, and also showed that an approach with more emphasis on health education principles that have been shown to be effective in changing other substance use behaviors would have a more successful effect on attitudes, beliefs, and intentions.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Adolescent Health, Teens, Racial/Ethnic Minorities, Urban
Goal: The goal of the program was to provide year-round reproductive and contraceptive education and services to students of two inner-city schools in Baltimore, Maryland with high rates of sexual activity and teen pregnancy.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Diabetes
Goal: The goal of this program is to help meet the recommended standards of care for people with diabetes in Utah.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Physical Activity, Children, Teens
Goal: To increase and maintain physical activity among tweens (youth ages 9-13).