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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 Effective Practice, Health / Children's Health, Children

Goal: The goal of this program is to improve the safety of child care centers in Idaho by making sure that recalled products are removed.

Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Diabetes, Adults, Families, Urban

Goal: The goal of the Healthy Diabetes Plate was to increase understandability and accessibility of diabetes nutrition education for people living with diabetes.

Impact: The Healthy Diabetes Plate curriculum solves two problems encountered in diabetes education — understandability and accessibility. Participants were able to correctly plan breakfast, lunch, and dinner meals and improved their intake of fruit and vegetables.

Filed under Good Idea, Health / Cancer, Women

Goal: The goal or this program is to improve early detection of breast cancer through health education using a visual tool.

Filed under Good Idea, Health / Adolescent Health, Teens, Urban

Goal: To create and evaluate new ways to prevent teen dating violence and abuse.

Note: This practice has been Archived.

Filed under Effective Practice, Education / Student Performance K-12, Children, Racial/Ethnic Minorities, Rural

Goal: CYFAR New Communities Project's goal is to bridge the digital divide and offer under served youth in low-income communities experiential learning activities that develop workforce preparation skills.