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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 Good Idea, Health / Physical Activity, Children, Families, Racial/Ethnic Minorities, Urban

Goal: To promote physical activity and healthy eating in resource-poor neighborhoods.

Filed under Effective Practice, Education / School Environment, Children

Goal: The mission of Playworks is to improve the health and well-being of children by increasing opportunities for physical activity and safe, meaningful play.

Filed under Effective Practice, Community / Crime & Crime Prevention

Goal: The goal of this program is to encourage police officers to reside in low-income neighborhoods in order to reduce criminal activity.

Filed under Good Idea, Community / Civic Engagement, Adults, Urban

Goal: The mission of the Portland Fruit Tree Project is to increase equitable access to healthy food and strengthen communities by empowering neighbors to share in the harvest and care of city-grown food resources.

Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Immunizations & Infectious Diseases, Adults

Goal: To eliminate or reduce sex risk behaviors and eliminate or reduce illicit drug use among HIV-positive clinic patients.

Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Family Planning, Teens, Urban

Goal: The goal of this program is to delay sexual activity among adolescents.

Filed under Good Idea, Health / Maternal, Fetal & Infant Health, Women

Goal: The goal of this program is to improve the individual oral hygiene practices of the prenatal women in order to reduce the number of low birth weight, pre-term infants born to this population.

Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Maternal, Fetal & Infant Health, Women, Urban

Goal: The overall goal of the Prenatal Plus Program, combined with the Partners for a Healthy Baby curriculum, is to improve birth outcomes, decrease rates of child abuse and neglect, and strengthen families.

Impact: Reduced low birth weight rate through risk reduction during pregnancy.

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

Goal: The goal of this program is to reduce short- and long-term antisocial behavior.

Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Mental Health & Mental Disorders, Children

Goal: The goal of this program is to prevent and control depression among children.