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 Good Idea, Health / Children's Health, Children, Families, Urban
To strengthen families of young children and the systems of care that surround them so that all children will be successful early learners and have the opportunity to thrive, regardless of their cultural, socioeconomic, physical, psychological, emotional health, or environmental challenges.
Filed under Good Idea, Community / Social Environment, Families
Training for Adoption Competency (TAC) is a post-Master’s curriculum designed by C.A.S.E. with the assistance of a National Advisory Board of adoption experts. Through classroom and remote instruction as well as clinical case consultation, TAC students master 12 domains that are critical to adoption-competent mental health services.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Alcohol & Drug Use, Adults
The goal of TIPS is to train alcohol providers to recognize and prevent over consumption of alcohol.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Mental Health & Mental Disorders, Children, Teens
The goals of the center are to alleviate serious symptoms and promote healthy coping responses in traumatized children and their families.
Filed under Effective Practice, Community / Public Safety, Children, Urban
The goal of the TARGET program is to reduce gang crime by selectively incarcerating the most violent and repeat (recidivist) gang offenders (based on their criminal records).
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Older Adults, Older Adults
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- to encourage the use of these best practices by all direct care nurses
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Diabetes, Adults, Urban
The program's goal is to provide screening, education, and support services for patients at high risk for the development of type 2 diabetes and for those already diagnosed with the disease.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Health Care Access & Quality
The goal of this program is to provide eyeglasses to people in developing countries and to involve students in improving conditions in developing countries.
Filed under Effective Practice, Economy / Housing & Homes, Urban
- To reduce street homelessness and the shelter population by two-thirds in five years.
- To eliminate chronic, or long-term, homelessness on City streets and shelters in five years.
The plan's objectives include initiatives to better serve individuals and families who are at-risk of homelessness or who become homeless, as well as ensure that the City and its citizens are maximizing public resources. The plan has nine points - encompassing 60 initiatives - that seek to:
- Overcome street homelessness
- Prevent homelessness
- Coordinate discharge planning
- Coordinate city services and benefits
- Minimize disruption to homeless families and children
- Minimize duration of homelessness
- Shift resources into preferred solutions
- Provide resources for vulnerable populations to access and afford housing
- Measure progress, evaluate success, and invest in continuous quality improvement.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Health Care Access & Quality, Children, Teens, Adults, Women, Men, Older Adults, Families, Racial/Ethnic Minorities, Rural
Kansas, provides donated medications free of charge to eligible clinics in Kansas.
Over $20 million worth of prescription medications have been donated to low-income and uninsured Kansans.