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

Goal: The goal of this program is to divert young first-time offenders from court into a restorative justice process in which the offender and victim negotiate a satisfactory solution.

Filed under Effective Practice, Economy / Investment & Personal Finance, Families

Goal: The goal of this program was to demonstrate the effectiveness of individual development accounts.

Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Diabetes, Adults

Goal: To provide the tools to prevent or delay adult type 2 diabetes.

Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Children's Health

Goal: The goal of the IAQ TfS program is to provide schools with easy ways to improve air quality in classrooms.

Filed under Good Idea, Health / Children's Health, Children, Families

Goal: Effective asthma control can improve quality of life, reduce medical costs, and reduce the number of asthma-related emergency department visits, hospitalizations, school and work days missed, days of restricted activity, and deaths each year.

Filed under Good Idea, Health / Cancer, Women

Goal: The goal of the Inside Knowledge campaign is to increase knowledge and awareness about the signs and symptoms of the five major gynecologic cancers.

Filed under Effective Practice, Economy / Government Assistance, Children, Families

Goal: The goals of this program are to support healthy child development, to provide economic assistance and social services to families, and to protect abused and neglected children.

Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Energy & Sustainability

Goal: Interface's sustainability goals involve reducing their greenhouse gas emissions, reducing non-renewable energy use, and increasing renewable energy use in their production process.

Filed under Good Idea, Health / Diabetes, Teens, Older Adults, Racial/Ethnic Minorities, Rural

Goal: The intervention is a diabetes self-management program that utilizes peer advisers to reach patients who have poor health literacy, are physically isolated, and require assistance with managing their diabetes.

Filed under Effective Practice, Community / Transportation

Goal: The main objectives of the Repeat Intoxicated Driver project are to decrease the incidence of individuals operating while intoxicated (OWI).