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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Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Good Idea, Community / Social Environment, Families
Goal: The goal of this program is to change the child protection field by demonstrating a new approach to safeguarding children and supporting families. Based on the premise that many people, agencies, and organizations in a community can contribute to children's safety, the initiative addresses child abuse and neglect by raising neighborhood awareness of child safety issues, empowering neighborhood residents to become more involved with families at risk of abusing or neglecting their children, strengthening locally based organizations and helping them form networks concerned with child safety, and fostering policy, practice, and organizational changes within public sector child protective services agencies. This approach is known as community child protection.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Adolescent Health, Teens, Urban
Goal: To increase condom use among sexually active high school students.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Good Idea, Community / Civic Engagement, Teens
Goal: The goal is to encourage middle and high school students to increase their civic involvement.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Effective Practice, Education / Educational Attainment
Goal: The goal of this program was to teach staff the skills necessary to encourage an optimum learning environment for disabled students.
Discovering Previously Unidentified Foodborne Illness Risks through Discussion (Olmstead County, MN)
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Food Safety
Goal: The goal of this program was to promote the active management of food borne illness risk factors by food service operators. Its objectives were to: shift the food safety program's focus from counting violations to evaluating food safety risks and systems, use an assessment process based on discussion of foodborne illness risks with the manger/operator, and develop the ability to track assessment results toward the Healthy People 2010 goals.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Good Idea, Economy / Investment & Personal Finance
Goal: The goal of this program is to help homeowners avoid lending practices that strip away their home's equity.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Good Idea, Education / Childcare & Early Childhood Education, Children, Older Adults
Goal: The goal of the project was to find a way for elementary school children to learn about the environment and participate in community service.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Effective Practice, Education / Student Performance K-12, Children, Urban
Goal: By providing programs for students and adults in the areas of literacy, the visual and performing arts, and service learning, NSCC's goals include improving students' performance in school and encouraging parents to become more involved.
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Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Toxins & Contaminants, Urban
Goal: The goal of the project was to encourage chemical manufacturers to change to environmentally friendly products and production methods.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Effective Practice, Education / Student Performance K-12, Children, Teens
Goal: The goal of this initiative is to promote the development of young people through after-school programs.