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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, Economy / Employment, Teens, Adults, Urban

Goal: HIRED's mission is to provide personalized and innovative work solutions.

Filed under Effective Practice, Community / Transportation, Families

Goal: The goal of this program is to assist low-income households in obtaining a personal vehicle.

Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Physical Activity

Goal: The goal of the Market Bucks program is to encourage shopping at farmers' markets and healthier eating.

Impact: Market Bucks have successfully increased the amount of EBT purchases made at farmers markets and increased fruit and vegetable consumption among participants.

Filed under Good Idea, Health / Health Care Access & Quality, Children, Teens, Adults, Older Adults, Families, Urban

Goal: The mission of the Neighborhood Involvement Program is to provide cost-effective and professional services to underserved populations.

Filed under Good Idea, Health / Health Care Access & Quality, Families, Racial/Ethnic Minorities

Goal: 2004 goals of the New Families Center include screening 1,600 children for eligibility in health coverage programs, enrolling 700 children in health care coverage programs, immunizing over 1,300 children; and serving 900 families in need of health care navigation services to help address individual barriers to getting health care.

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

Goal: The goals of the program are to carry out a comprehensive strategy to apprehend and prosecute offenders who carry firearms, to put others on notice that offenders face certain and serious punishment for carrying illegal firearms, and to prevent youths from following the same criminal path.

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, Community / Transportation, Urban

Goal: The goal was to evaluate the regionwide impacts of turning off the ramp meters for a six-week period.

Filed under Good Idea, Economy / Employment, Adults, Urban

Goal: To empower people to achieve greater personal, social and economic success.

Filed under Good Idea, Health / Prevention & Safety, Children, Teens, Adults, Older Adults, Urban

Goal: The goal of the Backyard Initiative is to improve health and health care.

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