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 / Mental Health & Mental Disorders, Children, Teens, Urban
The overriding treatment goal of Kartini Clinic is to secure lasting remission of eating disorder symptoms, allowing patients and their families to return to their own communities. Using a holistic approach, embracing medical as well as psychological and social interventions, patients are treated with the belief that parents do not cause eating disorders and children do not choose to have them.
Since 1998, Kartini Clinic has treated more than 2,000 patients and their families for a range of eating disorders.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Health Care Access & Quality, Teens, Adults, Racial/Ethnic Minorities, Urban
The goal of Keep It Up is to provide health screening and preventative care to Black men to promote HIV prevention and other health problems.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Children's Health, Children, Families
The goal of Kids Get Care was to ensure that children, regardless of insurance status, received integrated preventive physical, oral, and developmental health services.
Filed under Good Idea, Community / Social Environment, Children, Teens, Urban
The goal of Kids' Place is to provide a safe after-school learning enironmental for chidren that is available and affordable to local families.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Health Care Access & Quality, Children
The goal of the King County Asthma Forum is to improve asthma outcomes among low-income children.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Other Conditions
The goals of the KIP Program are to instill in the inmate community the knowledge and power to make healthy decisions and try to incorporate risk and harm reduction ideas into inmate lifestyles.
Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Energy & Sustainability
The goal of Labs21 is to create environmental showcase laboratories that take a "whole-building" approach to laboratory design.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Cancer, Women
The goal of this program is to make cancer screening more accessible for women with special needs.
Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Air
The goal of the Landfill Methane Outreach Program is to promote the use of landfill gas as an energy source.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Diabetes, Adults, Racial/Ethnic Minorities, Urban
The goal of the Lawndale Health Promotion Project was to eliminate health disparities in type 2 diabetes and heart disease among Hispanics and African Americans.