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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, Economy, Adults, Urban

Goal: The program’s main focus was on moving welfare recipients quickly into the workforce.

Impact: There was a sizable increase in employment rates and job earnings, reduction in welfare dependency, and savings to the government.

Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Air, Urban

Goal: The 2001 action plan, which is more aggressive than the Kyoto Protocol, calls for a 10 percent reduction below 1990 carbon dioxide emissions by 2010.

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.

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

Goal: The goal of exercise programs for pregnant women is to improve health and prevent gestational hypertension.

Impact: Exercise programs reduce the development of high blood pressure in pregnancy.

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

Goal: The primary objective of Pregnancy Partners is to increase first trimester prenatal care among low-income pregnant women.

Impact: Pregnancy Partners provides women with the assistance needed to overcome barriers to prenatal care, including referrals for need-based assistance.

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 / Older Adults, Older Adults

Goal: PACE provides comprehensive medical and social services to certain frail, elderly people (participants) still living in the community. Most of the participants who are in PACE are dually eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid.

Impact: Key research findings demonstrate PACE effectiveness in delivering gold-standard care for older adults and its approach can be a model for others looking to improve the health care system.

Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Diabetes, Adults, Families, Racial/Ethnic Minorities, Urban

Goal: The goal of the Project DIRECT was to reduce the burden of diabetes and its impact on the African-American community through partnerships with the community in Raleigh, NC.

Filed under Good Idea, Economy / Employment, Children, Teens, Adults, Families, Urban

Goal: PPL works with low-income individuals and families to achieve greater self-sufficiency through housing, employment training, support services, and education.

Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Wellness & Lifestyle, Women, Racial/Ethnic Minorities, Urban

Goal: The goal of Project Joy is to improve cardiovascular lifestyle risk factors among African American women.