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, Health / Alcohol & Drug Use, Teens
The goal of Project SUCCESS is to prevent and reduce substance abuse in high-risk middle-school and high-school aged adolescents.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Alcohol & Drug Use, Teens
The goal of Project SUCCESS is to prevent and reduce substance abuse in high-risk middle-school and high-school aged adolescents.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Cancer, Women, Racial/Ethnic Minorities
The goal of this program is to extend lifesaving prevention programs and screening services across a variety of cultures by giving communities the materials and plans to implement an effective intervention while allowing them to execute these plans in a manner and at a pace that resonates with their own culture and community.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Women's Health, Women, Racial/Ethnic Minorities
The goal of the Promoting Heart Health in Women Municipal Workers program is to improve women’s knowledge of and perceived susceptibility to heart disease.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Cancer, Adults, Rural
The goal of the PREP computerized reminder system is to increase colorectal cancer screening.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Cancer, Adults, Racial/Ethnic Minorities
The goal of this provider intervention is to increase provider recommendation and patient adherence to colorectal cancer screening in publicly-funded health centers.
Provider Intervention to Improve Colorectal Cancer Screening Rates Among African American Patients (Washington D.C.)
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Cancer, Adults, Racial/Ethnic Minorities
The goal of this intervention is to improve colorectal cancer screening rates for African Americans.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Cancer, Women, Racial/Ethnic Minorities
The goal of this program is to encourage low-income African American and Hispanic women to seek early breast and cervical cancer screening.
Filed under Effective Practice, Education / Student Performance K-12, Teens
The Reconnecting Youth program has three main goals: 1) increase school performance; 2) decrease drug involvement; and 3) decrease suicide-risk behaviors.
Significant increases in positive connections with teachers, friends, and family members; significant improvements in GPA; lasting reductions in hard drug use; decreases in anger-control problems; reductions in depression and hopelessness; and increases in enhancing personal control were observed.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Older Adults, Older Adults
Remembering When was developed to prevent deaths and injuries from fires and falls among older adults.