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 Good Idea, Health / Oral Health, Children, Families
The Smile Programs... the mobile dentists mission is to bring state-of-the-art, dental care to those students in need in the most comfortable and effective way possible.
Smile Programs provides mobile dental care to children in schools in over a dozen states.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Oral Health, Children
The goal of Smiles for a Lifetime is to make pediatric dental care accessible for all children.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Children's Health, Children
The goal of this program is to prevent children's exposure to secondhand smoke.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Physical Activity, Urban
The program aims to increase the consumption of local, healthy fruits and vegetables in SNAP participants.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Health Care Access & Quality
This study sought to examine whether Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participation and benefit levels are associated with reduced subsequent hospital and emergency department utilization in low-income older adults
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Mental Health & Mental Disorders, Teens, Urban
1) Increase capacity of adults to respond to behavioral health issues of adolescents
2) Increase the mental health literacy of youth-interacting adults
3) Link adolescents with behavioral health issues to mental, emotional, and behavioral health assistance and services
4) Increase the number of collaborative partnerships with youth- serving community agencies/programs
5) Conduct outreach and engagement strategies with adolescents and their families/caregivers to increase awareness of and promote positive behavioral health
Collaboration and partnerships can help drive awareness of mental health issues and training adolescents in Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) can help spread awareness of mental health resources and referrals to professionals.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Children's Health, Children, Teens, Families
The objective of the Special Edition Sickle Cell Newscast is to increase the public's awareness of Sickle Cell Disease and to train lifelong advocates for SCD among the teen population.
Filed under Good Idea, Education / Childcare & Early Childhood Education, Children, Families
The project's goal is to identify children with disabilities and other special needs at an early age and provide those identified with the appropriate support so they can be successful when entering kindergarten.
St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center Community-Building/Vocational Services Initiative (Syracuse, NY)
Filed under Good Idea, Community / Social Environment, Adults, Urban
The goal of St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center's Community-Building/Vocational Services Initiative is to revitalize the neighborhood by increasing community development and job placement.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Adolescent Health, Teens, Urban
To create and evaluate new ways to prevent teen dating violence and abuse.