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.
CDC COMMUNITY GUIDE: Increasing Tobacco Use Cessation: Mass Media Campaigns When Combined with Other Interventions (USA)
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Alcohol & Drug Use, Teens, Adults
Impact: The Task Force did not have enough evidence to determine whether the intervention is or is not effective. This does not mean that the intervention does not work, but rather that additional research is needed to determine whether or not the intervention is effective.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Immunizations & Infectious Diseases, Families, Urban
Goal: To provide low-cost immunization for hepatitis A and B, screening for hepatitis B, and to increase community awareness about hepatitis B.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Effective Practice, Economy / Investment & Personal Finance, Women, Urban
Goal: The goal of Women's Initiative is to help low-income women start their own businesses.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Physical Activity, Children, Teens, Urban
Goal: The goal of the Class of 1989 Study was to reduce risk factors for physical inactivity and promote long-term healthy behavior outcomes among children.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Alcohol & Drug Use, Urban
Goal: The program was designed to direct-mail a free, six-week course of nicotine treatment to eligible callers, thereby increasing access and reducing cost to people who wanted to stop smoking and improve their health.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Children's Health, Children
Goal: The main objective of Growing Healthy is to give students the tools to resist the social pressures to smoke, use alcohol or other drugs, and engage in other risky behavior.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Diabetes, Older Adults, Urban
Goal: The goal of the Healthy Changes program is to increase the ability of program participants to improve their self-care on a day-to-day basis, including diet and physical activity aspects of their diabetes control regime.
Preventing Recurring Homelessness Among Mentally Ill Men Using a Critical Time Intervention (CTI) (New York City, NY)
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Economy / Housing & Homes, Adults, Men, Racial/Ethnic Minorities, Urban
Goal: The goal of this Critical Time Intervention (CTI) is to prevent recurring homelessness in the mentally ill.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Alcohol & Drug Use, Children, Teens, Rural
Goal: The goal of this program is to prevent young athletes from using spit tobacco.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Maternal, Fetal & Infant Health, Teens, Women
Goal: The goal of the program was to reduce Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and encourage zero alcohol use by pregnant women through educational and social marketing techniques for select target groups.
Impact: The NineZero program increased knowledge regarding FAS, and also showed that an approach with more emphasis on health education principles that have been shown to be effective in changing other substance use behaviors would have a more successful effect on attitudes, beliefs, and intentions.