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Wisconsin Promising Practices Program

The Wisconsin Promising Practices (WPP) Program (PDF, 93 KB) is one component of the What Works: Reducing Health Disparities in Wisconsin Communities project.

The overall goal of the What Works project is to identify and disseminate public health interventions that will help reduce racial and ethnic health disparities in Wisconsin. The WPP program aims to:

  • Develop a model for identifying local programs that show promise in improving health in racial and ethnic minority communities.

  • Recognize and support these programs by providing technical assistance for program planning and evaluation.

  • Assist these programs to document their efforts and outcomes so that others can learn from their examples.

A promising practice is defined as a practice or program which:

  1. Focuses on improving health in a racial or ethnic minority population,
  2. Produces at least one positive outcome that can be demonstrated with systematically collected quantitative and/or qualitative data,
  3. Is based to some degree on proven practices from the research literature and/or the experience of community practitioners and leaders,
  4. Is well suited to its context in terms of language, belief systems and other cultural factors.

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Last Revised: September 04, 2009