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, Economy / Poverty
Goal: To increase the amount of fresh produce and nutritious foods that are distributed to local food banks across the United States through the Feeding America network.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Alcohol & Drug Use, Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Goal: To create successful smoke-free strategies that are rooted in cultural tradition.
Impact: By recognizing the cultural traditions of sacred tobacco use, an inter-tribal coalition was successful in implementing culturally appropriate tobacco protections for tribal members.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Cancer, Women, Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Goal: The goal of this program is to encourage screening and early detection of cancer among American Indian women.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Prevention & Safety, Teens
Goal: To prevent death and injury from car crashes among teens by reducing driving speed and driver distractions.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Health Care Access & Quality, Adults
Goal: The goal of the Neighborhood Health Clinic is to provide medical care to low-income, uninsured, working adults.
Filed under Effective Practice, Economy / Economic Climate, Urban
Goal: The goal of this program is to promote investments in underserved urban neighborhoods.
Filed under Effective Practice, Community / Transportation, Urban
Goal: The goal of the Neighborhood Traffic Management Program (NTMP) is to increase safe traffic practices in Sacramento's neighborhoods by reducing the impacts from speeding vehicles and careless drivers on residential streets.
Filed under Effective Practice, Education / Student Performance K-12, Teens, Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Goal: NFTE's mission is to motivate young people from low-income communities to stay in school, learn about entrepreneurship, and plan for successful futures.
Filed under Effective Practice, Community / Social Environment, Children, Teens, Adults, Women, Men, Families
Goal: A 10-session group program, with two individual sessions, for divorced mothers and their children to promote resilience in children after parental divorce.
Impact: At the fifteen-year followup, NBP reduced the incidence of internalizing disorders for females and males and substance-related disorders and substance use for males.
Filed under Effective Practice, Economy / Employment, Adults
Goal: New Hope provided full-time workers with several benefits: an earnings supplement to raise their income above poverty, low-cost health insurance, and subsidized child care. For those unable to find full-time work, the program offered help in finding a job and referral to a wage-paying community service job when necessary.