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, Community / Crime & Crime Prevention, Urban
The goal of Peacekeepers is to prevent violence among youth in the Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco.
Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Toxins & Contaminants, Urban
The goal of the Coalition was to encourage the EPA to add dioxins as reportable chemicals unter the Toxics Release Inventory
Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Air
EPA's partners have committed to reduce PFC emissions 10 percent below their 1995 baseline by 2010.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Children's Health, Children, Rural
The goal of this program is to improve immunization rates in Madera County.
Filed under Good Idea, Education / Student Performance K-12, Teens
To reduce truancy in high school.
Filed under Effective Practice, Community / Crime & Crime Prevention
The goal of this program is to encourage police officers to reside in low-income neighborhoods in order to reduce criminal activity.
Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Air, Urban
The 2001 action plan, which is more aggressive than the Kyoto Protocol, calls for a 10 percent reduction below 1990 carbon dioxide emissions by 2010.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Family Planning, Teens, Urban
The goal of this program is to delay sexual activity among adolescents.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Maternal, Fetal & Infant Health, Women
The primary objective of Pregnancy Partners is to increase first trimester prenatal care among low-income pregnant women.
Pregnancy Partners provides women with the assistance needed to overcome barriers to prenatal care, including referrals for need-based assistance.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Maternal, Fetal & Infant Health, Women
The goal of this program is to improve the individual oral hygiene practices of the prenatal women in order to reduce the number of low birth weight, pre-term infants born to this population.