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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, Education / Childcare & Early Childhood Education, Children

Goal: The goal of this program is to improve school performance through reciprocal peer tutoring.

Filed under Good Idea, Environmental Health / Air

Goal: The goal of Clear the Air Utah is to improve the air quality in Utah.

Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Cancer, Families

Goal: The goal of this program is to increase cancer screening among individuals with first-degree relatives who have had colorectal cancer.

Filed under Good Idea, Health / Physical Activity, Racial/Ethnic Minorities

Goal: The goal of this program is to increase participants' physical activity.

Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Cancer, Racial/Ethnic Minorities, Urban

Goal: The goal of this project was to promote colorectal cancer screening among Chinese Americans.

Filed under Good Idea, Health / Oral Health, Families

Goal: The goal of this program is to improve the health of all its community members, while providing the same quality of service paid for by privately insured patients.

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

Goal: The goal of this program is to reduce gang violence.

Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Alcohol & Drug Use, Teens

Goal: The goal of this program is to prevent further criminal behavior among first-time juvenile misdemeanor drug offenders.

Filed under Good Idea, Health / Diabetes, Rural

Goal: Please define your project/intervention goals:

The goals of this project are:
-to promote individual control of diabetes.
-to help patients become partners with their healthcare providers in the care of their disease.
-to help diabetes patients realize that small continous changes do make big differences.