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 Effective Practice, Community / Crime & Crime Prevention, Children, Urban
BUILD's mission is to engage at-risk youth in the schools and on the streets, so they can realize their educational and career potential and contribute to the stability, safely and well being of your communities.
Filed under Effective Practice, Community / Social Environment, Children, Rural
The goal of this program was to develop and implement an intervention in the child care setting to reduce children's television viewing.
Filed under Good Idea, Art & Recreation, Children, Racial/Ethnic Minorities
The goal of the paper is to introduce effective practices for building a summer learning program that reaches the neediest kids, gets kids learning, and keeps going strong.
Filed under Effective Practice, Community / Social Environment, Children, Teens
The goal of this program is to reduce bullying in schools.
Filed under Effective Practice, Economy / Economic Climate
The goal of this program is to create a strategy for a sustainable Burlington.
Filed under Good Idea, Economy / Employment, Teens
The goal of the California Green Corps is to place 1,000 at-risk young adults between the ages of 16 and 24 into "green" jobs in order to stimulate the economy and provide opportunities for disadvantaged youth while improving and protecting the environment.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Children's Health, Children, Families
California Healthy Start's mission is to provide comprehensive services that support the wide variety of needs of children and further student learning.
Filed under Effective Practice, Economy / Economic Climate
The purpose of California Main Street is to educate and provide assistance to California communities about how they can revitalize their downtowns or core commercial districts using the self-help Main Street Four-Point Approach. Through this education on how traditional downtowns and neighborhood commercial districts can become and remain vital economic, social, and cultural centers, the community's development leads to livable and sustainable practices that ultimately improve its quality of life.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Mental Health & Mental Disorders, Children, Teens, Families, Rural
Camp Erin's goal is to help children through the grieving process by offering grief education and emotional support in a weekend-long camp.
Filed under Effective Practice, Economy / Housing & Homes, Urban
The mission of this project is to improve the safety and living conditions for residents of Boyle Heights and to empower those residents to make positive changes in their communitites and their lives.