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.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Alcohol & Drug Use, Teens, Families
Goal: This program is designed to improve parent-child communication skills as a way of improving and maintaining healthy decision-making.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Family Planning, Teens, Women
Goal: The SiHLE intervention aims to reduce sexual risk behaviors among sexually experienced African American adolescents.
Note: This practice has been Archived.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Note: This practice has been Archived.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, Education / School Environment, Teens
Goal: The goals of this program are to decrease student anonymity, to increase student accountability, and to enhance students' abilities to learn school rules and exceptions.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Community / Governance, Teens
Goal: The aim of the program is to persuade merchants to obey the law by refusing to sell tobacco to minors.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Cancer, Children, Families
Goal: To encourage and increase safe sun behaviors in children and adults by limiting their exposure to ultraviolet rays through the use of sunscreen and hat wear.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Education / Student Performance K-12, Children, Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Goal: Teach Baltimore sought to prevent summer learning loss and promote academic achievement among early elementary school students.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Health Care Access & Quality, Children
Goal: The goal of the TEDAS program is to reduce the number of pediatric asthma-related emergency room visits.
The CrossPoints Project: Using Virtual Reality to Teach Pedestrian Safety to Children (Ontario, Canada)
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Community / Public Safety, Children
Goal: The goal of the CrossPoints Project is to use a Virtual Reality software program to teach pedestrian safety to children.
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.