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, Economy / Poverty, Families
The goal of this program is to provide affordable auto insurance to low-income drivers in California.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Diabetes
The goal of the DCCP is to improve diabetes care and education in Minnesota.
Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Energy & Sustainability
The overall purpose of the energy evaluation was to demonstrate how operational and process modifications could be made to lower the demand and energy costs for various facilities within STPUD. More specifically, the goal was to reduce electrical energy consumed at the plant and to reduce SPPC billings.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Health Care Access & Quality, Children
The Florida Healthy Kids Corporation arranges health care coverage for Florida's uninsured children. They develop and implement solutions, making quality a priority at every step in the process. They strive to instill a sense of security among the families of those they serve.
Intervention Mapping and the Development of a Peer Supported Diabetes Self-Management Program in Rural Alabama (Alabama)
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Diabetes, Teens, Older Adults, Racial/Ethnic Minorities, Rural
The intervention is a diabetes self-management program that utilizes peer advisers to reach patients who have poor health literacy, are physically isolated, and require assistance with managing their diabetes.
Filed under Good Idea, Community / Social Environment, Families
The program aims to provide information and resources to kinship caregivers (grandparents, relatives, foster parents, and others) in New York State.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Older Adults, Older Adults, Rural
The purpose of the ombudsmen is to recognize potential problems and represent elderly and institutionalized clients throughout the state.
Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Air, Children
The program aims to accomplish two things in Central California: (1) permanently change local policy with respect to existing operating procedures in school districts and schools to help reduce exposure of students, teachers, staff and nearly communities to outdoor environmental asthma triggers ;and (2) provide education on air quality and potential health effects from exposure to air pollutants.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Physical Activity, Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Pasos Adelante is a lifestyle intervention that aims to prevent and control chronic disease such as heart disease and diabetes in Mexican Americans by providing a supporting environment for improving nutrition and increasing walking activity in U.S.-Mexico border communities.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Immunizations & Infectious Diseases
The main objective of the Protocol is to provide a medicolegal framework for the protection of public health and safety in the face of emerging threats of infectious diseases and bioterrorism agents with due regard to a citizen's right to due process.