Other Resources

Here is a list of health promotion resources and databases:

• Guide to Community Preventive Services(link is external and opens in a new window): Federally sponsored website that provides guidance on selecting community-based programs and policies to improve health and prevent disease that are based on systematic reviews of the evidence

• Cancer Control PLANET(link is external and opens in a new window) (Plan, Link, Act, Network with Evidence-based Tools): Web portal designed to provide cancer control practitioners with stepwise access to data and evidence-based resources to assist in planning and implementing evidence-based plans and programs

• Diffusion of Effective Behavioral Interventions(link is external and opens in a new window): Website designed to bring science-based, community-group, and individual-level HIV prevention interventions to community-based service providers and state and local health departments

• Canadian Best Practice Portal(link is external and opens in a new window): A virtual front door to community and population health interventions related to chronic disease prevention and health promotion

• Blueprints for Violence Prevention(link is external and opens in a new window): Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development provides a registry of evidence-based positive youth development programs designed to promote the health and well-being of children and teens. Blueprints programs are family, school, and community-based and target all levels of need

• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Association (SAMSA) - National registry of evidence based programs and practices(link is external and opens in a new window): Online registry of tested interventions that support mental health promotion, substance abuse prevention, and mental health and substance abuse treatment

• Research-Tested Interventions Programs (RTIPS)(link is external and opens in a new window): Searchable database of cancer control interventions and program materials, designed to provide program planners and public health practitioners easy access to research-tested materials