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 Effective Practice, Education / Literacy, Children
Goal: The goal of this program is to improve reading skills for beginner readers.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Older Adults, Older Adults
Goal: The project seeks to model how the aging network in partnership with a managed care plan can improve the health outcomes for older adults.
Filed under Good Idea, Economy / Housing & Homes
Goal: The goal of this program is to end homelessness for families by combining the case management component of transitional programs with quicker access to permanent housing.
Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Air
Goal: EPA's partners have committed to reduce PFC emissions 10 percent below their 1995 baseline by 2010.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Children's Health, Children, Rural
Goal: The goal of this program is to improve immunization rates in Madera County.
Filed under Good Idea, Education / Student Performance K-12, Teens
Goal: To reduce truancy in high school.
Filed under Effective Practice, Community / Crime & Crime Prevention
Goal: The goal of this program is to encourage police officers to reside in low-income neighborhoods in order to reduce criminal activity.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Family Planning, Teens, Urban
Goal: The goal of this program is to delay sexual activity among adolescents.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Maternal, Fetal & Infant Health, Women
Goal: The primary objective of Pregnancy Partners is to increase first trimester prenatal care among low-income pregnant women.
Impact: Pregnancy Partners provides women with the assistance needed to overcome barriers to prenatal care, including referrals for need-based assistance.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Maternal, Fetal & Infant Health, Women
Goal: The goal of this program is to improve the individual oral hygiene practices of the prenatal women in order to reduce the number of low birth weight, pre-term infants born to this population.