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 / Immunizations & Infectious Diseases
The purpose of the exercise was to train health and emergency medical personnel in planning for and responding to large scale disease outbreaks. The most proven method to assure an effective response to a real event is to practice a well-coordinated multi-agency field exercise.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Immunizations & Infectious Diseases, Teens, Urban
The curricula aim to increase participants' knowledge about the risks of various behaviors and educate participants on how condoms and/or abstinence can effectively be used to lower those risks.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Adolescent Health, Teens, Women, Urban
The Behavioral Intervention Program seeks to increase condom use by females who are at high risk of pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, or reinfection.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Alternative Medicine, Urban
Being Alive is a nonprofit membership organization created and operated by and for people living with HIV/AIDS that aims to build a healthier and more powerful community of HIV-positive people.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Immunizations & Infectious Diseases
The goal of the program is to raise awareness of the most effective Lyme disease prevention practices, to educate the community about the early signs and symptoms of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases, and to promote timely diagnosis and treatment.
The BLAST program has raised awareness of the most effective Lyme disease prevention practices through various outlets and has been recommended by the CDC.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Immunizations & Infectious Diseases, Adults
Building Bridges has the overall mission of providing education, training, services, advocacy, and promoting the rights and dignity of individuals infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.
Building Bridges provides free HIV testing, prevention case management, individual and group counseling, and referrals for additional needed services.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Children's Health, Children
The primary goal of Shots for Tots is to increase public awareness and provide reliable opportunities to immunize 0-2 year olds.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Children's Health, Teens, Adults
The goal of this project is to achieve high rates of identification of new HIV infection and to decrease the spread of HIV among youth in metropolitan DC, which is severely affected by the epidemic.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Immunizations & Infectious Diseases, Teens, Adults, Urban
The goal of the program is to reduce the spread of STDs/STIs in high risk populations under 25 years old by decreasing the length of time from diagnosis to treatment.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Immunizations & Infectious Diseases
The goal of HealthSentry is to meet the challenge of linking public health organizations to reliable clinical data without burdensome manual data collection and reporting.more timely and accurate reporting.