Best Practice and Evidence-Base Resources 

Other Public Health Organizations with Best Practice Databases or Programs

• CityMatCH: Toolkit for Best Practices related to policy development: http://www.citymatch.org/toolkit_more.php
• The National Association of County and City Health Official's (NACCHO) Model Practice Database is an online, searchable collection of practices across public health areas. http://www.naccho.org/topics/modelpractices/database/index.cfm
• The Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors (ASTDD) Best Practices Project promotes best practices for state, territorial and community oral health programs. http://www.astdd.org/best-practices/
• The Promising Practices Network (PPN) site features summaries of programs and practices that are proven to improve outcomes for children. All programs have been screened for quality and to ensure that they have evidence of positive effects. http://www.promisingpractices.net/search.asp#searchprograms
• SAMHSA's National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP) is a searchable online registry of more than 250 interventions supporting mental health promotion, substance abuse prevention, and mental health and substance abuse treatment: http://www.nrepp.samhsa.gov
• The Safe States Alliance Innovative Initiatives Program & Annual Award is a project designed to provide members of the Safe States Alliance with opportunities to celebrate and showcase the successes of their injury and violence prevention programs. http://www.safestates.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=228
• National Governor's Association (NGA) Center for Best Practices: http://www.nga.org/cms/center
• NIHCM Foundation's Promising Practices in Maternal & Child Health database is a searchable collection of emerging and promising health plan programs and collaborations: http://nihcm.org/maternal-child-and-adolescent-health/promising-practices
• Colorado Best Practices: Department of Public Health and Environment for the State of Colorado
• Iowa Substance Abuse Information Center - Best Practices: http://www.drugfreeinfo.org/pbest.html

Learn More About Best Practices Around the World!

• Canada: http://www.idmbestpractices.ca/idm.php?content=resources-world
• USAID: http://www.aidstar-one.com/promising_practices_database/about_promising_pract

Evidence-Based Public Health Resources

• The Guide to Community Preventive Services is a free resource that uses systematic reviews to help you choose programs and policies to improve health and prevent disease in your community: http://www.thecommunityguide.org
• National Guideline Clearinghouse is a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. The site also provides comparative analyses of guidelines on similar topics: http://www.guideline.gov
• Health-evidence.ca provides a searchable registry of current review-level research evidence on health topics: http://health-evidence.ca
• Healthy People 2020 Structured Evidence Queries: http://phpartners.org/hp2020/index.html
• PubMed/MEDLINE database: http://pubmed.gov
• Evidence-based Practice for Public Health website, includes a pathway to evidence-based resources: http://library.umassmed.edu/ebpph
• ASTHO's Evidence-Based Public Health Resource page is a resource to provide updated tools and materials about evidence-based public health to state and territorial health officials: http://www.astho.org/Programs/Evidence-Based-Public-Health/
• UNAIDS: Joint United Nations Programs on HIV/AIDS. Best Practice: identifying what works: http://data.unaids.org/Publications/IRC-pub02/jc-summbookl-1_en.pdf

Links to MCH Information and Data

• The MCH Library provides accurate, timely information including the weekly newsletter MCH Alert, resource guides, full text publications, databases, and links to essential MCH resources. For more information, visit: MCH Library: http://www.mchlibrary.info/
• The Data Resource Center website allows you to view state specific performance measure data relating to child and adolescent health and children with special health care needs to create data tables, trend graphs etc. This site also has useful tools to help states use data to tell stories. To find out more about this great resource, visit the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI): http://www.childhealthdata.org/content/Default.aspx

Evaluation Resources

• The Alaska Health Education Library Project has created tools and guidelines for evaluating public health programs which may be useful to your state. To find out more, visit: http://www.ahelp.org/Evaluation/Other.aspx

Questions?

For more information about programs included in AMCHP’s Innovation Station database, contact Kate Howe. Please be sure to include the title of the program in the subject heading of your e-mail.