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.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Physical Activity, Adults, Women, Rural
The goal of Strong Women – Healthy Hearts is to decrease cardiovascular disease among middle-aged women through behavioral changes in diet and physical activity.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Physical Activity, Older Adults
The goal of Strong-For-Life home-based exercise program is to promote activity and reduce disability among older adults.
Home-based resistance exercise programs designed for older persons with disabilities hold promise as an effective public health strategy.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Wellness & Lifestyle, Children, Teens, Adults, Families, Racial/Ethnic Minorities, Urban
The goal of Sunday Streets is to provide safe, fun outdoor spaces in different neighborhoods across the city that encourage physical activity.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Older Adults, Older Adults
The goal of the program is to provide seniors a form of movement that will enhance their confidence and balance in daily activities.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Family Planning, Teens
The goal of this program is to reduce the repeat birth rate for teen women in Collier County and to encourage positive choices for teen mothers to ensure a brighter future for them and their children.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Adolescent Health, Teens, Urban
The goal of the Teen Health Project is to provide adolescents with the skills necessary to prevent HIV risk behaviors.
The Teen Health Project shows that community-level interventions that include skills training and engage adolescents in neighborhood-based HIV prevention activities can produce and maintain reductions in sexual risk behavior, including delaying sexual debut and increasing condom use.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health, Teens, Urban
To enable teens from disadvantaged circumstances to develop healthy behaviors, life skills, and a sense of purpose in order to prevent problem behaviors.
develop life and leadership skills, and achieve educational
success.
Filed under Good Idea, Community / Crime & Crime Prevention, Children, Teens, Urban
Program goals include educating and training young people from some of the most life-threatening neighborhoods of Oakland to enable them to participate in making their lives, their neighborhoods, and their communities safer and healthier, and educating policy makers, community members, and the media on the impact of violence on youth and violence prevention strategies.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Cancer, Racial/Ethnic Minorities, Urban
The goal of this telephone outreach program was to increase colorectal cancer screening in a predominantly lower- to moderate-income African American population.
Filed under Good Idea, Community / Transportation
The goal of this project is to make the streets more pedestrian friendly and supportive of active living.