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 / Employment
The goal of this program is to improve retention of hospital employees to address critical shortages in health care staffing.
Filed under Good Idea, Education / Childcare & Early Childhood Education, Children, Families
ECEAP is a community-based, family-focused, comprehensive, pre-kindergarten program designed to help children and their families who are in poverty. The program focuses on helping three- and four-year-olds prepare for and succeed in school while helping their parents progress toward self-sufficiency.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Children's Health, Teens, Adults, Families
The goal of FACE-ACP is to give adolescents and adults living with a serious medical condition a voice by facilitating conversations between patients and their caregivers so they can achieve their goals and match medical treatment to their goals.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Respiratory Diseases, Children, Racial/Ethnic Minorities
The goal of the National Capital Asthma Coalition is to form partnerships between organizations to improving the care and outcomes for children and adults with asthma.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Children's Health, Children, Families, Urban
The program aims to provide ongoing comprehensive care coordination to children with medically complex and chronic conditions within Children's National health care system.
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 Effective Practice, Community / Social Environment, Children, Families, Racial/Ethnic Minorities
The goals of this program are to improve parenting skills and children’s behaviors and decrease conduct disorders; to improve children’s social competencies; and to improve family attachment, harmony, communication, and organization.
Filed under Effective Practice, Economy / Housing & Homes, Urban
PHG works to eliminate homelessness and stabilize homeless and very low-income people in housing by preserving, developing and operating safe, decent, affordable housing, and by providing opportunities for homeless and very low-income people to improve their lives.
Filed under Effective Practice, Economy / Employment
The goal of this program is to help move people from public assistance to employment.
Filed under Good Idea, Economy / Government Assistance
The goal of this program is to help individuals move toward self-sufficiency.