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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 Good Idea, Health / Mental Health & Mental Disorders

Goal: The goal of this program is to provide a resource and referral service that could meet the needs of lower-income employees who might not be well served under a typical employee assistance program.

Filed under Good Idea, Health / Older Adults, Older Adults

Goal: The goal of the center is to help members achieve total health, fitness, and wellness.

Filed under Good Idea, Community / Transportation

Goal: The goal of this project is to make the streets more pedestrian friendly and supportive of active living.

Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Air

Goal: C2P2 aims for the following goals:
-Increase the use of coal fly ash in concrete by 43 percent, from 14 million metric tons per year in 2001 to 20 million metric tons by 2010.
-Reduce greenhouse gas emissions from concrete production by approximately 6 million metric tons by 2010.

Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Physical Activity, Older Adults

Goal: The goal of this program is to encourage weight bearing exercise among seniors and individuals at risk of or suffering with osteoporosis.

Filed under Good Idea, Health / Physical Activity, Teens, Women, Urban

Goal: The program offers an integrated food experience to students and expectant mothers attending an alternative high school.

Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Weather & Climate, Children

Goal: The goal of this program is to promote sun-safe behavior in children.

Filed under Good Idea, Health / Children's Health, Children

Goal: The goal of The Eyes Have It is to provide free vision screening, examinations and free or discounted eyeglasses to children in Baton Rouge and New Orleans schools.

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

Goal: The mission of The Fortune Society is to support successful reentry form prison and promote alternatives to incarceration, thus strengthening the fabric of our communities.

Filed under Good Idea, Environmental Health / Built Environment

Goal: The goal of the Green Map System is to cultivate citizen participation and community sustainability in hundreds of places around the world.