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, Environmental Health / Toxins & Contaminants, Children, Adults, Families
Goal: The goal of the Healthy Places Coalition is to advance public health involvement in land-use and transportation planning in order to ensure that all neighborhoods in California promote the opportunity to live a healthy life.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Health Care Access & Quality, Urban
Goal: The goal of Healthy San Francisco is to make health care services accessible to San Francisco's uninsured population.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Physical Activity, Children, Teens, Adults, Women, Older Adults, Families
Goal: The overarching goal of the Healthy Silicon Valley collaborative is to increase nutrition and physical activity opportunities by positively changing the built environment.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Prevention & Safety, Adults
Goal: To make businesses healthier, happier and more productive through company-sponsored health and wellness programs.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Heart Disease & Stroke, Adults
Goal: The goal of Heartbeat Wales was to reduce behavioral risks for cardiovascular disease.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Children's Health, Children
Goal: The goal of HeartPower! is to increase knowledge of the heart and heart disease risk factors.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Heart Disease & Stroke, Adults
Goal: The goal of the Hearts for Life program is to increase knowledge of cardiovascular risk factors and encourage healthy cardiovascular behaviors.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Maternal, Fetal & Infant Health, Children, Rural
Goal: The goal of Heaven's Loft is to encourage low-income expectant mothers to receive prenatal care, well-baby care, immunizations, health screenings, and educational classes on childbirth, breastfeeding, and infant/child care and parenting.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Diabetes, Adults, Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Goal: The goal of Project HEED is to lessen the incidence of diabetes in ethnic minority communities through peer-led educational interventions focusing on weight loss.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Children's Health, Children, Families
Goal: The program’s goal is to identify children at risk for developmental or behavioral problems and to connect them to existing community resources.