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 / Children's Health, Families
Goal: Water First aims to reduce the sugary beverage intake and increase water intake in tweens through an educational website for tweens and their parents, and promotion in the community.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Children's Health, Children, Families, Urban
Goal: The goal of the program is to improve access to fresh drinking water as a calorie-free beverage option in select NYC school cafeterias at lunchtime.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Immunizations & Infectious Diseases, Urban
Goal: The goal of this program is to create a regional approach to emerging infection based on public education, environmental monitoring, and disease surveillance.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Immunizations & Infectious Diseases
Goal: The primary goal of the program is to protect the public from WNV by early detection of WNV and elimination of mosquitoes.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Wellness & Lifestyle, Adults, Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Goal: The mission is to provide affordable and accessible fitness and nutrition programs to people in low-income communities.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Immunizations & Infectious Diseases, Children
Goal: The goal of the WHACK the Flu project was to provide strategies for children to employ to reduce the transmission of communicable diseases to their families and other contacts.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Physical Activity, Adults, Older Adults
Goal: The goal of Wheeling Walks is to increase walking among Wheeling, WV residents aged 50-65 years.
Filed under Good Idea, Community / Social Environment, Children
Goal: The goal of this program is to help students learn to identify and report sexual abuse.
Filed under Good Idea, Community / Crime & Crime Prevention, Teens, Adults, Families, Urban
Goal: Why Murder? works to reform and revitalize communities throughout Baltimore that are torn apart by homicides and the frequent administration of "street justice."
Filed under Good Idea, Community / Governance, Children, Families, Urban
Goal: The goal is to reduce the frequency of accidental falls from apartment buildings.