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 Communities Putting Prevention to Work: Increase Access to Cessation Services (Santa Clara County, CA)
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Alcohol & Drug Use, Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Goal: The goal is to increase cessation within communities with the highest tobacco use rates through culturally appropriate services provided through community-based organization partners.
Impact: The intervention has resulted in a 39% quit success rate.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Physical Activity
Goal: To enable consumers to make healthier choices when ordering food at chain restaurants.
Filed under Effective Practice, Community / Public Safety, Urban
Goal: The goal of this strategy is to improve the effectiveness of policing in Chicago.
Filed under Effective Practice, Community / Public Safety, Children
Goal: The goal of this program is to increase booster seat use among children aged 4 to 8 years.
Filed under Effective Practice, Education / Childcare & Early Childhood Education, Children
Goal: The goal of this program is to improve school performance through reciprocal peer tutoring.
Filed under Good Idea, Environmental Health / Air
Goal: The goal of Clear the Air Utah is to improve the air quality in Utah.
Filed under Effective Practice, Education / Student Performance K-12
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Cancer, Families
Goal: The goal of this program is to increase cancer screening among individuals with first-degree relatives who have had colorectal cancer.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Physical Activity, Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Goal: The goal of this program is to increase participants' physical activity.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Oral Health, Families
Goal: The goal of this program is to improve the health of all its community members, while providing the same quality of service paid for by privately insured patients.