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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 central goal of CDP is to help schools become "caring communities of learners" by offering an environment of caring, supportive, and collaborative relationships to build students' sense of community in school and to promote school bonding.

Filed under Good Idea, Health / Children's Health, Children, Teens, Families, Urban

Goal: The goal is to increase awareness in faith-based communities regarding preventative care for children and services available at Children's National Medical Center for patients and families.

Impact: The Parish Nursing Program will train eight nurses to become Faith Community Nurses in Summer 2013.

Filed under Good Idea, Health / Health Care Access & Quality, Older Adults

Goal: A key goal of this program is to help clients continue to reside at home, despite serious chronic conditions.

Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Heart Disease & Stroke, Adults, Older Adults

Goal: The goal of the CDSMP is to improve personal management of chronic disease.

Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Toxins & Contaminants

Goal: The goal of this program is to protect and improve coastal water quality.

Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Air

Goal: The goal of Climate Leaders is to aid companies in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Health Care Access & Quality, Adults, Women, Racial/Ethnic Minorities

Goal: The goal of Cultivando la Salud is to increase breast and cervical cancer screening among low-income Hispanic women.

Filed under Effective Practice, Community / Transportation, Children, Teens, Adults, Urban

Goal: The goal of Cycles of Change is to enable community members to use bicycles as a primary form of transportation through bicycle education and distribution programs.

Filed under Good Idea, Environmental Health / Built Environment, Children, Teens

Goal: The goal of the D.C. Schoolyard Greening program is to increase and improve schoolyard green spaces in order to promote ecological literacy and environmental stewardship among students, teachers, parents and the community.

Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Immunizations & Infectious Diseases, Rural

Goal: The goal of the interventions is to reduce the number of blacklegged ticks to ultimately reduce the incidence of Lyme disease.

Impact: The four-poster device was effective in decreasing erythema migrans (EM) rash incidence in an endemic area. The deer hunt did not have a significant effect on the incidence of EM rash, although the incidence did decrease.

Coastal Georgia Indicators Coalition