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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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Note: This practice has been Archived.

Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Community / Domestic Violence & Abuse, Women

Goal: The goal of this clinic-based and counseling intervention is to reduce Intimate Partner Violence by encouraging behaviors that promote safety for women.

Note: This practice has been Archived.

Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Children's Health, Children, Teens

Goal: The goal of KYB is to teach students the necessary knowledge, attitudes, skills, and experience to practice positive health behaviors and reduce their risk of future illness.

Impact: Studies suggest that the program had a favorable impact on many risk factors, such as systolic and diastolic pressures, HDL cholesterol, ratio of total to HDL cholesterol, fitness (postexercise pulse recovery rate), and smoking.

Note: This practice has been Archived.

Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Economy / Housing & Homes, Children, Teens, Adults, Rural

Goal: The goal of MTO was to impact behavior and lifestyle choices by changing neighborhood environments.

Note: This practice has been Archived.

Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Oral Health, Children

Goal: The goal of My Mouth Matters was to raise dental health awareness, improve knowledge, and reduce plaque.

Note: This practice has been Archived.

Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Respiratory Diseases, Adults

Goal: The goal of the Nurse-Directed Inpatient Asthma Intervention is to improve health quality and reduce hospitalization readmissions due to asthma.

Note: This practice has been Archived.

Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Oral Health, Older Adults

Goal: The goal of this educational program was to improve the quality of oral health care nursing home residents received from their caregivers.

Impact: This study shows that oral health care education can improve caregivers' knowledge, attitudes and oral health care delivery for elderly clients.

Note: This practice has been Archived.

Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Physical Activity, Teens

Goal: To facilitate behavior change among adolescents such that the adoption of healthy lifestyle behaviors yields weight loss and sustained weight control.

Note: This practice has been Archived.

Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Education / Childcare & Early Childhood Education, Families

Goal: The mission of this program is to provide the information, support and encouragement parents need to help their children develop optimally during the crucial early years of life.

Impact: The Parents as Teachers (PAT) program had no effect on improving child or parent outcomes.

Note: This practice has been Archived.

Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Education / Childcare & Early Childhood Education, Children, Rural

Goal: The goal of the PAVEd for Success program is to improve the literacy outcomes of children.

Note: This practice has been Archived.

Filed under Good Idea, Health / Adolescent Health, Teens

Goal: Project A.S.K. seeks to raise youth self-efficacy, improve knowledge of health issues, highlight math and science concepts tested in school, build leadership qualities, and improve the sense of community.

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