Skip to main content

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.

Submit a Promising Practice

Search Filters Clear all
(2405 results)

Ranking
Featured
Primary Target Audience
Topics and Subtopics
Geographic Type

Filed under Good Idea, Health / Health Care Access & Quality

Goal: Project Access Durham County seeks to provide comprehensive healthcare to low-income, uninsured individuals residing in the county for at least six months.

Filed under Effective Practice, Community / Crime & Crime Prevention, Children, Teens, Urban

Goal: The goal of this program is to help divert youths in early stages of delinquency from committing future crimes.

Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Heart Disease & Stroke, Adults, Women, Men, Racial/Ethnic Minorities, Urban

Goal: The objective of Project HEART (Health Education Awareness Research Team) was to promote behavior changes to decrease cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in a high-risk Hispanic border population.

Filed under Effective Practice, Education / Student Performance K-12, Children, Teens

Goal: The goal of Project SOAR is to promote academic success among youth at Galveston Elementary School.

Filed under Good Idea, Environmental Health / Toxins & Contaminants

Goal: The goal of Project SWAT is to reduce the population of mosquitoes potentially carrying West Nile Virus by applying larvicide to common breeding habitats.

Filed under Good Idea, Community / Crime & Crime Prevention, Children, Adults, Urban

Goal: The goal of Project Ujima is to stop the cycle of violent crimes by reducing the number of repeat victims of violence.

Filed under Effective Practice, Community / Transportation, Urban

Goal: The goal was to evaluate the regionwide impacts of turning off the ramp meters for a six-week period.

Filed under Good Idea, Health / Heart Disease & Stroke, Racial/Ethnic Minorities

Goal: The goal of this program is to improve cardiovascular health among residents of the Atlanta Empowerment Zone (AEZ).

Filed under Effective Practice, Education / Literacy, Children

Goal: The mission of the R.E.A.D. program is to improve children's literacy skills through the use of literacy mentors.

Filed under Effective Practice, Education / Literacy, Children, Urban

Goal: Reading Partners mission is to help children become lifelong readers by empowering communities to provide individualized instruction with measurable results.