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, Children, Urban
The goal of this partnership is to provide a healthy breakfast to low-income students to help them perform better in school.
Filed under Effective Practice, Education / Literacy, Children
The goal of this program is to improve reading skills for beginner readers.
Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Air
EPA's partners have committed to reduce PFC emissions 10 percent below their 1995 baseline by 2010.
Filed under Effective Practice, Community / Crime & Crime Prevention
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
The goal of this program is to delay sexual activity among adolescents.
Filed under Effective Practice, Education / Student Performance K-12, Children, Teens
The goal of Project SOAR is to promote academic success among youth at Galveston Elementary School.
Filed under Effective Practice, Community / Transportation, Urban
The goal was to evaluate the regionwide impacts of turning off the ramp meters for a six-week period.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Adolescent Health, Teens, Men, Urban
The mission of the Rikers Health Advocacy Program is to provide an intensive AIDS education designed to reduce HIV risk behaviors for incarcerated adolescent male drug users.
Filed under Good Idea, Community / Community & Business Resources, Women, Men, Families, Rural
The goal of the renovation of the Rock Island Railroad Depot was to revitalize the city of Liberal, Kansas.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Immunizations & Infectious Diseases, Adults, Women, Men
The goal of the Safety Counts is to reduce behaviors which place drug users at a high risk of HIV infection.