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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.
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Note: This practice has been Archived.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).

Note: This practice has been Archived.

Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Adolescent Health, Teens, Racial/Ethnic Minorities, Urban

Goal: The goal of YAPP was to increase awareness of risky sexual behaviors and to reduce the risk of HIV and STD infection associated with such behaviors.

Note: This practice has been Archived.

Filed under Good Idea, Education / Educational Attainment

Goal: The major focus of this program is on empowering classroom instructors with the knowledge, time, and compensation needed to design, implement, and evaluate 231 program activities. These activities are designed to increase and improve access for students and allow them to move through the program to reach their goals.

Note: This practice has been Archived.

Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Health Care Access & Quality, Rural

Goal: The goal of this program is to increase the availability of cancer trials and increase patient enrollment in cancer trials in an underserved rural community in Maryland.

Note: This practice has been Archived.

Filed under Good Idea, Health / Diabetes, Adults, Rural

Goal: The goal of Advancing Diabetes Self Management at the Department of Family and Community Health was to improve self management among people with type 2 diabetes.

Note: This practice has been Archived.

Filed under Effective Practice, Community / Public Safety, Adults

Goal: The goal of the Alcolock system is to reduce drunk driving.

Note: This practice has been Archived.

Filed under Good Idea, Health / Other Conditions, Older Adults

Goal: The goal of this course is to help participants with arthritis manage their pain so that they can exercise more, take less arthritis medication, and move with ease.

Note: This practice has been Archived.

Filed under Good Idea, Health / Heart Disease & Stroke, Adults

Goal: The goal of the Change of Heart behavioral intervention is to reduce risk factors for coronary heart disease.

Note: This practice has been Archived.

Filed under Good Idea, Health / Children's Health, Children

Goal: The goal of CINCH’s Asthma Workgroup is to improve pediatric asthma care among underserved youth.

Note: This practice has been Archived.

Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Toxins & Contaminants, Urban

Goal: The goals of the program include both ecological waste management and job creation.

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