BEST PRACTICES, 01/21/02 On a grand scale, UNESCO's Management of Social Transformations Programme, (MOST) at http://www.unesco.org/most/bpsites.htm describes Best Practices as examples of outstanding contributions to improving the living environment. They are defined by the United Nations and the international community at large as successful initiatives which: Have a demonstrable and tangible impact on improving people's quality of life; Are the result of effective partnerships between the public, private and civic sectors of society; Are socially, culturally, economically and environmentally sustainable. Best Practices are promoted and used as a means of: Improving public policy based on what works; Raising awareness of decision-makers at all levels and of the public of potential solutions to common social, economic and environmental problems; Sharing and transferring knowledge, expertise and experience through networking and learning. For the purposes of this Best Practices site, much of that definition pertains. Examples, however, have been drawn from life, from interpersonal experiences common to families in the United States as they seek to improve themselves, theirs and their children's education, their workplaces, neighborhoods, institutions, communications, relationships and health. Auerbach Best Practices Series Project management / editor, Paul C. Tinnirello Boca Raton, FL: Auerbach, c2000. New directions in Internet management / editor, Sanjiv Purba. 2nd ed. Boca Raton, FL: Auerbach, c2002 Enterprise systems integration / editor, Judith M. Myerson. 2nd ed. Boca Raton, FL: Auerbach, c2002. BENCHMARKING American Productivity and Quality Center: Bringing the Best to the World The center is devoted to improving organizational effectiveness and benchmarking and best practices play a key role in that work. http://www.apqc.org/best/ Benchmarking Basics for Librarians Presentation from the Special Library Association meeting in Dayton, OH, by Annette Gohlke http://www.sla.org/division/dmil/mlw97/gohlke Overview: http://www.sla.org/division/dmil/mlw97/gohlke/sld001.htm Benchmarking for Best Practices: Winning through Innovative Adaptation. Christopher Bogan with Michael J. English McGraw-Hill. 1994. Best Practices, LLC Online Brochure http://www.best-in-class.com/about/brochure/brochure_2.htm Best Practices, LLC Offers experience in the application of continuous-improvement and best-practice benchmarking strategies. Best Practices' expertise in the best practice benchmarking(r) field is enhanced by ongoing research, best management practices databases and active work and affiliations with subject-area experts in industry and academia. Best Practices, LLC Library of Congress Online Catalog http://www.loc.gov Name Browse= Best Practices, LLC (following list is selected from 46 documents) Best practices in career path definition & succession planning. Chapel Hill, NC : Best Practices, c2001. Best Practices in customer and employee satisfaction management. Chapel Hill, NC : Best Practices, c2001. Best practices in employee performance management & development. Chapel Hill, NC : Best Practices, c2001. Best practices in resource allocation. Chapel Hill, NC : Best Practices, c2001. Developing human resources performance measures. Chapel Hill, NC : Best Practices, c2001. Knowledge management of internal best practices. Chapel Hill, NC : Best Practices, c2001. Thought leader relationships: building the business. Chapel Hill, NC : Best Practices, c2001. Benchmarking in Health Care: finding and implementing Best Practices. Oakbrook Terrace, IL: JCAHO, 1999 ISBN 0866885544 Benchmarking, Productivity and Quality Drawn from the University of Alberta Libraries, Knowledge Management, Benchmarking and Best Practices. Bibliography and links. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/subject/knowledgemanagement/index.cfm Benchmarking Resource Guide, by industry and process. http://benchmarkingnetwork.com/ Benchmarking State Standards and Assessments Pilot Program Lauren Resnick, resnick@pitt.edu This project with the Council for Basic Education is working with ACHIEVE to develop a sophisticated, reliable process for benchmarking state standards and assessments so that interested states can understand how their academic expectations compare with the expectations in other states and countries. This involves analyzing the quality, rigor, and alignment of state standards and assessments in the core subject areas. (funded by Council for Basic Education) Best Practices and Benchmarking in Healthcare. St Louis: Mosby, 1996- ISSN 1085-0635 Consortium for Higher Education Benchmarking Analysis (CHEBA) Provides a forum for the exchange of performance measurements and benchmarking data. http://www.cheba.com/ Environmental Health and Safety Benchmarking Association (EHSBA) Works with performance data, process data and provides a free newsletter. http://www.ehsbenchmarking.org/ International Institute for Internet Industry Benchmarking Establishes methods of measuring and the measurement identifies best practices that can be replicated. http://www.iiib.org Library Benchmarking International Providing the tools to meet goals and the metric for measuring success. http://www.librarybenchmarking.com/main.htm Medical Library Association, Hospital Libraries Section Hospital Libraries Section: Benchmarking http://www.hls.mlanet.org/Management/benchmarking.html (old) MLA Benchmaring Network http://www.mlanet.org/members/benchmark/index.html (current) Benchmarking Chapter Educator Resources http://www.mlanet.org/members/benchmark/bce_help.html Beta Results Test Site http://www.mlanet.org/members/benchmark/nb_beta/index.html Benchmarking Data Worksheets http://www.mlanet.org/members/benchmark/worksheet.html Data Definitions http://www.mlanet.org/members/benchmark/definitions.html Benchmark FAQ, Part 1 http://www.mlanet.org/members/benchmark/faq.html Benchmarking Database Rollout Plan http://www.mlanet.org/members/benchmark/plan.html TEOMA Technologies search engine. Search =best practices health education See both web pages retrieved and the 10 Expert Links http://s.teoma.com/e?t=best+practices+health+education CAREERS Best practices in career path definition & succession planning. Chapel Hill, NC: Best Practices, c2001. ISBN 158679034 CENTERS/Foundations/COUNCILS/Academies Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy http://www.ahsrhp.org/programs.htm Center for Best Practices in Early Childhood Education http://www.wiu.edu/users/mimacp/wiu/ Center for Distance and mediated Learning, George Washington University CDML Best Practices All Fields. http://www.gwu.edu/~cdml/bestpractices.cfm?B_ID=9 Cancer Research foundation of America: National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month Colorectal cancer advocacy best practices: Minnesota Colorectal Cancer Consortium http://www.preventcancer.org/colorectal/bp/mccc.cfm Center for Health and Health Care in Schools Improving Academic Performance by Meeting Student Health Needs http://www.healthinschools.org/education.asp Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic research http://dcc2.bu.edu/chqoer/index.htm Center for Healthcare Improvement, a partnership of the Medical College of Georgia and BCBS of Georgia, studies best health care practices. http://www.mcg.edu/news/98newsrel/bestprac.htm Center for Leadership and Change Management, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania http://leadership.wharton.upenn.edu/welcome/index.shtml Center for School Mental Health Assistance of the University of Maryland School of Medicine: advancing effective school-based mental health programs http://csmha.umaryland.edu/csmha2001/links-iv.php3 Center for the Prevention of School Violence http://ncsu.edu/cpsv/ Education Development Center: Building Bridges between Research and Practice Nonprofit education and health organization. http://www.edc.org Hamilton Fish Institute, a consortium of seven universities with staff excellence in adolescent violence, substance abuse, juvenile justice and behavior disorders. http://www.hamfish.org/about/ Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disabilities Best Practices Newsletter http://www.icdl.com National Center for Infants, Toddlers & Families Zero to Three Young Explorers http://www.zerotothree.org Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; National Technical Assistance Office (NATO) With the American Association of Health Plans Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care Programs' http://www.aahp.org/atmc/ntaosum.htm W. K. Kellogg Foundation How do foundations disseminate evaluation findings and results? http://www.wkkf.org/documents/wkkf/evalpotential/evalpoten4.asp William T. Grant Foundation Featured Grantee: After-School Corporation. Building upon the current 5-year evaluation of the After-School Corporation's program http://www.wtgrantfoundation.org COMMUNICATION SKILLS Objective Structured Video Exam for Assessment of Communication Skills Med Educ 2000 Nov;34(11)939-45. PMID 11107020 SEGUQ Framework for Teaching and Assessing Communication Skills Patient Education and Counseling. 2001 Oct;45(1):23-34. PKID 11602365 Strategy to Improve Communication between Health Care Professionals and People Living with Cancer I and II J Cancer Educ.1993 Summer;8(2):109- PMID 8363936 J Cancer Educ.1997 Fall;12(3):161-5 PMID 0376254 COMMUNITY INFORMATION Best Practices: How Libraries Help. Delivery of community information. http://www.si.umich.edu/libhelp/best.htm Community Learning Centers: Best Practices and Innovations, Diseimination and Grant Training 2001 Designs for Learning. http://flconline.org/clctraining/ COMPLEMENTARY and ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE Best Practices in complementary and alternative medicine: an evidence-based approach with CEU/CME/ Linda W. Freeman, ed. ISBN 0834218429 CULTURAL COMPETENCE Cultural Competence: a journey http://bphc.hrsa.gov/culturalcompetence eHandbook Best Practices-Learning Linkages for Youth Forming Learning Linkages for Youth so American youth can get improved high schools http://www.workforce21.org/best_practices/learning_link.htm GENDER BEST PRACTICES The Cisco Learning Institute and its partners select gender best-practice sites each year to showcase. The Cisco Learning Institute and the Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science (IWITTS) have selected five, gender best-practice Cisco Networking Academy Program sites to serve as a model for how to successfully recruit and retain female students in IT. http://www.gender.ciscolearning.org/bestpractices/ CUSTOMER RELATIONS Best Practices in customer and employee satisfaction management. Chapel Hill, NC : Best Practices, c2001 CRM Demystified: Customer Relationship Management Isn't Magic by Paula Gamonal http://www.ravenwerks.com/practices/crm.htm Customer Care: How to Create an Effective Customer Focus. Sarah Cook. Kogan Page, Limited. 2001 DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES Developmental Disabilities: a Handbook for Best Practices. PJ McLaughlin, P Wehman, eds. Boston: Andover Med Pubs, 1992 ISBN 156372023X Project ACCESS - Best Practices - Learning Disabilities addresses many distinct and unique learning disabilities including dyslexia, hyperlexia, language based learning disabilities, auditory processing, spatial relations and several others http://depts.stcc.mass.edu/projectaccess/bplearning.htm DISTANCE LEARNING Distance Learning Guidelines and Best Practices Showcases developing guidelines or "best practices" that can be used by institutions and individuals to develop and to evaluate distance learning courses and programs. http://distancelearn.about.com/library/weekly/aa100900a.htm Florida Distance Learning Association: Current Best Practices SIG Focus on what is a best practice can change as time moves ... in the delivery and facilitation of learning at a distance. ... www.fdla.com/bestpractices.htm The site's webliography: WWW Tools for Instructors at http://edutools.cityu.edu.hk/wwwtools/newslett.htm Asynchronous Learning Network Journal and Magazine at http://www.aln.org The Distance Ed Clearinghouse at the U of Wisconsin at http://www.uwex.edu/disted/home.html Critical review of the state-of-the-art in over 100 network delivered courses http://jrbnt.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/alnpaper World Lecture Hall for finding online courses on subjects organized A-Z. http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/index.html Directory site about higher education; useful educational resources at http://128.250.89.9/Highered.html World Wide Web as a Teaching Tool at http://www.wayne.edu/wtt/wtt.html Online Teaching and Learning Links of the Centre of Curriculum, Transfer and Technology Assessment and Best Practices in Online Teaching and Learning. http://search.c2t2.ca/results.asp?ct=c2t2&q1=best+practices EDUCATION EnergyNet's Best Practices: Cross-Curricular Learning Students can apply the problem-based learning/telecommunications model to anatomy, physics and chemistry... www.energynet.net/best_practices/ccl.html Knowledge Loom A database of best practice resources. Search the collection, or read what's new: Adolescent Literacy in the Content Areas, Cultural Relevance in Teaching, Early Literacy, a National Perspective, Early Literacy in the Northeast, Good Models of Teaching with Technology, Middle School Math, Professional Development, School, Family & Community Partnerships, Technology Leadership. http://knowledgeloom.org/index.shtml Learning on Demand Spotlights Best Practices for Education Research http://www.npaci.edu/envision/v14.4/eot_learning.html Mental Health Dissemination Network of Arizona-Arizona Connection (MHDNA) http://www.asmentalhealth.org/azconn.html Miami-Dade County Public Schools Best Practices resources http://www.dade.k12.fl.us/inst/campus/best.htm Teaching and Learning Consortium Initiatives at Penn StateDepartment of TheatreBest Practices http://www.psu.edu/dept/tlc/tlinitiative/3/up/arts/theatre.html University of Maryland at College Park The African-American Leadership Program. James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership Focused on the production and dissemination of high quality information and its use in the process of enhancing quality of life for low-income citizens. Web site www.academy.umd.edu/scholarship/aali E-Mail aalp@academy.umd.edu ELECTRONIC LEARNING Best Practices in Electronic Learning The Louisiana State Board of Regents and Louisiana Public Broadcasting present Best Practices in Electronic Learning http://www.lpb.org/streamedia/regents.html EVALUATION CONQUEST 2.0 Summary: Software Download Computerized Needs-Oriented Quality Measurement Evaluation SysTem http://www.ahcpr.gov/qual/conquest.htm Evaluating the Effectiveness of Maryland's Best Management Practices for Forest Harvest Operations http://www.dnr.state.md.us/forests/mbmp Measure Evaluation: monitoring and evaluation to assess and use results; from the Carolina Population Center at UNC at Chapel Hill http://www.cpc.unc.edu/measure School Evaluation Rubric (SER) Determine school discipline needs, focused within each school organizational system: leadership, school-wide, non-classroom, classroom and individual. http://abi.ed.asu.edu/resources/sser.html W. K. Kellogg Foundation Evaluation Handbook (116p) http://www.wkkf.org/pubs/Pub770.pdf FAMILIES Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice, information for dealing with families, mental health, juvenile justice, child welfare, etc. http://cecp.air/org Education Development Center: Building Bridges between Research and Practice Guidelines for family support practice. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL : Family Support America, 2001. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997. ISBN0787-91079-1. Sustainable USA: Best Practices Workshops and Web Guidance on Food Buying and Preparation fro Eating Healthy at Low Cost http://www.sustainableusa.org/bestpractices/best_detail.cfm?BestID=37 HEALTH Behavioral Health System, City of Philadelphia, PA Education & Health Care http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/innovations/winners/1999/99.htm Best Practices: a report of the review of health authorities http://www.health.gov.ab.ca/public/document/bestpra.htm Collaborating to Improve Community Health: workbook and guide to best practices in creating healthier communities and populations. K Johnson, W Grossman, A Cassidy, eds. Community Health Assessment Process, Community Health Assessment Model for CHTis http://www.cclhe.org/best/health_assess2/index.htm Community Health Care Systems: a report on what works: best practices, best approached, best strategies, best techniques, a report by the Pacific American Foundation. DC: The Foundation 1997. Creating a Circle of Care: Comprehensive Service Delivery to HIV-positive Pregnant Women and Their Newborns: a manual on best practices. Lake Ridge, VA: Edge City Innovations. 1998. Crossing the Quality Chasm: a New Health System for the 21st Century. IOM report Nat'l Academy of Science. http://www4nas.edu/onpi/webextra.nsf/chasm?OpenDocument Federal Office of Rural Health Policy http://www.ruralhealth.hrsa.gov Health Manager's Toolkit, management tools designed to help managers of health and family planning programs a product of the Management Leadership Program of Management Sciences for Health. http://erc/msh.org/search/searchresult2.cfm http://erc.msh.org/mainpage.cfm?file-1.0.htm&module=toolkit&language=english Healthier Communities: a Compendium of Best Practices by Joe Flower http://www.well.com/user/bbear/hc_compendium.html Medical Outcomes Trust BASIS - list of all instruments what are approved Including genetic instruments and condition-specific instruments http://www.outcomes-trust.org/instruments.htm Models that Work Campaign: multiplying community solutions, overcoming barriers and scoring economic dividends - innovative community-based models for the delivery of primary health care. http://www.bphc.hrsa.gov/mtw/def.htm Models That Work Online Database http://www.bphc.hrsa.gov/databases/mtw/search.cfm Growing into Life Task Force, reducing infant mortality; a project of the March of Dimes of SC. Coordinator Karen Papouchado (803) 648-8250 http://www.bphc.hrsa.gov/database Narcotic Treatment Programs: Best Practice Guideline http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/pubs/manuals/narcotic/index.html National Governors' Association, Center for Best Practices http://www.nga.org/center/1%2c1188%2c%2c00.html Coordinated School Health http://www.nga.org/center/topics/1,1188,C_Center_Issue^D_356,00.html Governors' Health Initiative Successes in 2001 State Legislatures http://www.nga.org/cda/files/090101HEALTHSTATELINE.pdf New Health Care Access Web Site Launched at the WK Kellogg's Community Voices Initiative. http://www.communityvoices.org Quality of Care ~ National Projects: Compendium of Diabetes Best Practices Section 3: Worksite and Community Based Diabetes Quality Improvement Projects http://www.hcfa.gov/quality/3r.htm for National Projects http://www.hcfa.gov/quality/download/3r4.rtf Raising standards in American Health Care: best people, best practices, best results. VC Sherman. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass 1999. SBC Pacific Bell Blue Web'n search results for lessons with health premise http://www.kn.pacbell.com/cgi-bin/listApps.pl?Health&Project http://www.kn.pacbell.com/cgi-bin/listApps.pl?Health&Activity Pacific Bell's Library of Blue Ribbon Learning Sites on the Web http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wider/bluewebn/ Sisters Together: Move More, Eat Better program guide. Help your community take steps toward better health. DHHS, PHS, NIH , a program of the Weight-control Information Network (WIN) http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health/nutrit/sisters/sisters.htm Working for a Healthy California Protecting and improving the health of California's diverse communities. http://www.cclhe.org Best Practices http://www.cclhe.org/best/index.html INFORMATION LITERACY ACRL Best Practices Initiative: Characteristics of Programs of Information Literacy that Illustrate Best Practices http://www.ala.org/acrl/nili/criteria.html December 1, 2001: Characteristics of Best Practice Invitational Conference http://www.ala.org/acrl/nili/bestprac.html Information Literacy, in Maryland The Project Better Series, developed by MSDE, summarizes current research on effective instruction, in order to assist teachers in expanding and refining their repertoire of teaching strategies and to guide in instructional planning and decision making. http://www.mdk12.org/practices/good_instruction/projectbetter/information_literacy/index.html Latest edition of Characteristics of Best Practice Programming http://www.earlham.edu/discus/messages/51/159.html?WednesdayMay920010101pm Mary Ann's Best Practices: student electronic portfolios http://www.teachers-connect.net/treasures/mhardebp.htm INFORMATION PRIVACY/SECURITY/ARCHIVING Best Practices in Digital Archiving: an information life cycle approach. GM Hodge, Information International Associates, Inc. D-Lib Magazine, January 2000. Vol 6 #1. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january 00/01hodge.html Joint Healthcare Information Technology Alliance (JHITA) HIPAA Real World Strategies http://www.jhita.org Information Literacy Project Stage I - Gap Analysis http://www.statelib.wa.gov/libraries/information_lit/gap_analysis.htm Information privacy : industry best practices and technological solutions : hearing before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, first session, June 21, 2001. Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., [Congressional Sales Office], 2001. PC Partners Community Service Program , Helping Parents Survive in Today's Digital World. http://www.education/pcparents/com Cybersafety Activity Book http://www.intel.com/education/pcparents/docs/colorbook.pdf Project management : best practices for IT professionals / Richard Murch Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall PTR, c2001 University of Wisconsin, Madison E-Mail Policy and Best Practices ARMS Bulletin #4 http://www.library.wasi.edu/libraries/Archives/rm/arms/arms4.html INTERNET America Library Association/Libraries and the Internet Toolkit Best Practices: How Librarians Are Managing the Internet http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/bestpractices.html Best Practices 2001: Innovative Internet Use in Canadian Public Libraries http://www.schoolnet.ca/ln-rb/e/about/bestprac01.html Bibliography on Evaluating Internet Resources University Libraries, Vermont http://www.lib.vt.edu/research/libinst/evalbiblio.html Evaluating Internet Information http://www.lib.vt.edu/research/libinst/idle/evaluating.html Evaluating Web Resources by Jan Alexander and Marsha Ann Tate http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/webeval.htm ICYouSee: T is for Thinking: guide to critical thinking about what you see on the web http://www.ithaca.edu/library/Training/hott.html Public Library and Best Practices: Public Service http://www.mun.ca/library/media/bestprac.html Short Course: Searching the Web with Altavista by Denny Curtin http://www.field-guides.com/guides/search/index.htm Web-based Training: creating e-learning experiences. 2nd ed. W. Driscoll San Francisco: Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer, 2002. Web Wisdom: How to Evaluate and Create Information Quality on the Web How to do research on the Web, how to evaluate information quality on the web. JE Alexander, MA Tate. Lawrence Ealbaum Inc, 1999. ISBN0805831231 JOURNALS Building a better tomorrow : HUD's best practices & technical assistance forum. HUD's best practices & technical assistance forum KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT Knowledge Management of Internal Best Practices. Chapel Hill, NC: Best Practices, 2001. ISBN 1586790250 LIBRARIES Applying research to Problem Solving in Library Practice http://mlanet.org/publications/bmla/doe_99.html#App Best Practices Discussions and Related Readings, OCLC Users' Council Meeting http://www.olcl.org/ocle/uc/may99/readings.htm Best Practices for Member Libraries at CRL http://www.uchicago.edu/info/bestpractice.htm Best Practices: Innovative Internet Applications in Libraries http://www.wiltonlibrary.org/innovate.html Best Practices: The Western Council of State Librarians http://www.apls.state.al.us/webpages/services/ndpwebpages/best_practices.htm Connecting Young Adults and Libraries: Best Practices http://www.connectingya.com/melsa/best.html Data Skills Online - an MCH Toolbox http://www.sph.unc.edu/toolboox/index.htm Do It Right! Best Practices for Serving Young Adults in School and Public Libraries http://www.neal-schuman.com/db/3/33.html Evaluating the Evidence: Creation of Gold Standard Practices for Searching and Filtering the Biomedical Literature http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/biolib/staff/filteringpres.html Governor's task Force on School Libraries: Trends, Best Practices, and Associations http://www2.lib.udel.edu/taskforce/trends.htm Library Service to Seniors, Saskatchewan Libraries http://www.lib.s.ca/bestpractices Public Libraries as Partners in Youth Development: Best Practices http://www.urbanlibraries.org/plpyd/bestpractice.html Pursue the Funding for Digital Projects http://digitalwa.statelib.wa.gov/newsite/funding/pursue.htm TEI Text Encoding in Libraries: Guidelines for Best Encoding Practices http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/tei/ Visual Materials: Metadata, Standards and Best Practices for Digital Libraries Howard Besser, UCLA Spring 2000, Information Studies 208 http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/~howard/Classes/208-s00/208.html LITERACY Best Practices in Literacy Instruction, LB Gambrell et aleds. NY: Guilford Press, 1999 ISBN 1572304421 Literacy Research and Best Practices North Central Regional Educational Laboratory http://goal.ncrel.org/litweb/web.asp MANAGING CHANGE Best Practices http://www.ravenwerks.com/practices/practices.htm Change Management Resource Library Best Practices Benchmarking study on Business Process Reengineering with the future role of IT in reengineering. http://www.change-management.org/ Implementing Organizational Interventions: steps, processes, and best practices JW Hedge, ED Pulakos, eds. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002. LONG-TERM CARE OBRA Best Practices Guidelines: Code of Federal Regulations, title 42, part 483; Conditions of participation and requirements for long-term care facilities. Indianapolis: Survey Management Services, 1996. MENTAL HEALTH AACAP Official Action: Summary lf the Practice Parameters for the Assessment and Treatment of Children and Adolescents with Schizophrenia. J Am Acac Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2000 Dec;39(12):1580-1582. PMID 11128338 Behaviors in dementia: best practices for successful management M Kaplan, SB Hoffman, eds. Baltimore: Health Professions Press, 1998. ISBN 1878812432 Best Practices in Psychological rehabilitation. R. Hughes, D. Weinstein, eds. Columbia, MD: International Association of Psychological Rehabilitation, 1999 ISBN0965584356 Crisis Response Resources http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/temphome.htm Gateway to a World of Resources for Enhancing Mental Health in Schools http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/gateway_sites.htm Links to other sites http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/links.htm HCFA Waiver review - Best Practices, Office of Mental Retardation (OMR) http://www.dpw.state.pa.us/omr/omrHcfaBstPra.asp Kids As Self Advocates: a grassroots network of youth with special needs http://www.fvkasa.org Resources: http://www.fvkasa.org/prevention.cfm Mental Health: the Neglected Epidemic. Convening and promoting a dialogue about consumers, providers and policymakers. N. Manhattan Community Voices Collaborative: Difficult to Cover Services Working Group http://www.communityvoices.org/Articles/Article.asp?ID=151 Outcomes for Children and Youth with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders and Their Families: programs and evaluation best practice. MH Epstein, K Kutash, A Duchnowski, eds. Austin: PRO-ED, 1998. ISBN 0890797501 Partners in Caregiving; The Dementia Services Program RWJF National Program Report http://www.rwjf.org/app/rw_grant_results_reports/rw_npr/partnerse.htm Practice Parameters for the Assessment and Treatment of Children and Adolescents with Suicidal Behavior. American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry J Am Acac Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2001 Jult;40(7Suppl):24S-51S. Review PMID 11434483 Taking the Bully by the Horns: giving educators, parents & kids the skills needed to deal with bullies, school violence and self-esteem http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/kthynoll/bully.htm?mtbarand=AOL_US Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program: an outreach program of the Light for Life Foundation International. http://wellowribbon.org MENTORING Best Practices in New Teacher Mentoring and Induction http://eee.teachmentors.com/GenrlConfr.html Best Practices in Organization Development and Change: culture, leadership, retention, performance, coaching: case studies, tools, models, research. L Carter, D Giber, M Goldsmith, eds. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2001 Enabling, empowering, inspiring: research and mentorship through the years http://mlanet.org/publications/bmla/doe_99.html Mentoring Leadership and Resource Network http://www.mentors.net/Library.html National Mentoring Partnership Elements of Effective Mentoring Practices; Promoting Responsible Mentoring Programs http://www.mentoring.org Research Outcomes and Strategies for Faculty Mentoring http://www.aamc.org/meetings/annual/2000/sponsor/wim.htm NURSING Culture & Nursing Care: a pocket guide. JG Lipson, SL Dibble, PA Minarik, eds. San Francisco: UCSF Nursing Press, 1996 Keys to Finding a Mentor: NursingNet online mentoring program http://www.nurseweek.com/features/97-11/mentor2.html Nursing Informatics: education for practice. B Carty, ed. NY: Springer, 2000. Nurse Mentoring Program of U. VA; ensures high quality patient care http://hsc.virginia.edu/newstips/Archives00/nurse_mentoring.html Service Learning: curricular applications in nursing. GP Poirrier. Boston: Jones & Bartlett, 2001 PARTNERSHIPS Best Practices: Public/Private Partnerships http://www.si.umich.edu/helpseek/BestPractices/Partnerships.html Reaching Out- New Approaches, Best Practices, and Partnerships at NARA (National Association of Government Archivist and Records Managers) http://www.nara.gov/nara/vision/NAGARA-f.html Wisconsin Historical Records and Advisory Board: Best Practices Project http://www.shsw.wisc.edu/archives/whrab/pbdesc.html PATIENT-PROVIDER Communication Consumers' Views of Quality in the Consultation and their Relevance to 'shred decision-making' approaches. A Edwards, G Elwyn, C Smith, S Williams, H Thornton. Health Expectations 4(3), 151-161 Teaching Physician-patient Communication Skills: the Bayer Institute Goes to Medical School. http://www.aamc.org/meetings/annual/2000/sponsor/bayer.htm PHARMACY Best Practices for Health-System Pharmacy, Positions and Practice Standards of ASHP 2001-2001 http://www.ashp.org/bestpractices PUBLIC HEALTH Community Care Network Lessons to Guide Health Leadership Agenda http://www.wkkf.org/Knowledgebase/Pubs/RenderRes.asp?ID=3364&CID=1 A new panel of health care and community leaders - was formed in 2001 to focus national attention on the plight of local health systems and to champion models of change. Insights of the Community Care Network (CCN) Demonstration Program, a collaborative effort of HRET, AHA, VHA Inc., and Catholic Health Association, Emerging Public Policy Issues and Best Practices. Rhonda M. Johnston, MPH, CFNP http://ruralhealth.hrsa.gov/domviol.htm Health and Retirement Study (HRS): a longitudinal study of aging and retirement sponsored by the National Institute on Aging http://www.umich.edu/~hrswww Healthy People 201 TOOLKIT: a field guide to health planning http://www.health.gov/healthypeople/state/toolkit/ Overview of the Community-Based Public Health Initiative http://www.wkkf.org/Programming/RenderRes.asp?ID=638&CID=1 For many years the W.K. Kellogg Foundation has believed that communities, academic health programs, and health practitioners should be working together to promote the health and well-being of all members of the community. The Community-Based Public Health (CBPH) Initiative's aim is to strengthen the practice and teaching of public health by creating partnerships with an informed and involved public. What do communities need to take action : a view from the trenches http://www.wkkf.org/Knowledgebase/Pubs/RenderRes.asp?ID=805&CID=162 Keynote Address by Nancy Amidei for the WK Kellogg Foundation Devolution Initiative Networking Meeting, Albany, NY, October 5, 1999. Go forward to explore how information is used in communities to connect people to issues and move them to act. PUBLIC POLICY UN-Habitat Best Practices Learning Centre Learning tools that are currently available include: Policy Tools & Guides, Case Books, Case Studies, Best Practice Briefs, Guide to Transferring Effective Practices, Training Materials http://www.sustainabledevelopment.org/blp/learning/ QUALITY IMPROVEMENT SPC Simplified: Practical Steps to Quality. RT Amsden, HE Butler, DM Amsden . Productivity Press Inc. 1998 If Only We Knew What We Know: The Transfer of Internal Knowledge and Best Practice. Carla O'Dell,C. Jackson Grayson . Simon & Schuster. 1998 Continuous Improvement Tools : A Practical Guide to Achieve Quality Results, Vol. 2 RY Chang, ME Niedzwiecki. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Inc.,1999 Quality Center of the Bureau of Primary Health Care: a continuous quality improvement initiative http://www.bphc.hrsa.gov/quality/aboutquality.htm Rediscovering Quality: What Healthcare Leaders and Managers Need to Know about the Total Quality Transformation. Barry S. Bader. Aspen Publishers, Inc. 2001 Work zone operations best practices guidebook [microform] / [prepared by] Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), United States Department of Transportation [in partnership with] American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) [Washington, D.C.?] : U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, [2000, i.e. 2001] A guide for best management practice (BMP) selection in urban developed areas / sponsored by Environmental and Water Resources Institute of ASCE ; produced by Urban Water Infrastructure Management Committee's Task Committee for Evaluating Best Management Practices. Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers, c2001. Urban runoff Management. Water quality management. Best management practices (Pollution prevention) Evaluation Environmental and Water Resources SCHOOL HEALTH ASCA public relations toolbox: a collection of best practices for school counselors. B Mueller-Ackerman. Chapin, SC: Youthlight, Inc., 2001 ISBN 1889636185 Center for Health and Health Care in Schools Improving Academic Performance by Meeting Student Health Needs http://www.healthinschools.org/education.asp Center for School Mental Health Assistance of the University of Maryland School of Medicine: advancing effective school-based mental health programs http://csmha.umaryland.edu/csmha2001/links-iv.php3 Center for the Prevention of School Violence http://ncsu.edu/cpsv/ Education Development Center: Building Bridges between Research and Practice Nonprofit education and health organization. http://www.edc.org Hamilton Fish Institute, a consortium of seven universities with staff excellence in adolescent violence, substance abuse, juvenile justice and behavior disorders. http://www.hamfish.org/about/ School-Based Health Centers into the 21st Century http://www.healthinschools.org/sbhc25th/top.htm SCHOOLS/TEACHING Adult Learning Theory Devoted to practical applications of adult learning theory. It's geared to, those who do staff training and those who do community legal education for clients. www.benchmarkinstitute.org/best_practices/best_practices_in_learning.htm Benchmarking State Standards and Assessments Pilot Program Lauren Resnick, email:resnick@pitt.edu This project with the Council for Basic Education is working with ACHIEVE to develop a sophisticated, reliable process for benchmarking state standards and assessments so that interested states can understand how their academic expectations compare with the expectations in other states and countries. This involves analyzing the quality, rigor, and alignment of state standards and assessments in the core subject areas. (funded by the Council for Basic Education) Best College Character Programs http://ww.collegevalues.org/bestprograms.cfm Best Practices Center The Teaching and Learning Clearinghouse is a collaboration of the Alabama Best Practices Center and the Alabama Teacher Quality Enhancement Project. www.bestpracticescenter.org/ Best practices for high school classrooms : what award-winning secondary teachers do / Randi Stone. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, c2002. BETTER: Building Effective Teaching Through Educational Research, in Maryland http://www.mdk12.org/practices/good_instruction/projectbetter/index.html Contextual Teaching and Learning, program profiles and analysis http://www.contextual.org/bestpractices.html Copernicus Education Gateway with Teachervision.com http://www.edgate.com/ed_index.html Do it right! : best practices for serving young adults in school and public libraries / Patrick Jones and Joel Shoemaker. NY: Neal-Schuman Publishers, c2001 Exemplary Planning; designing exemplary units http://www.intel.com/education/exemplary_planning/index.htm Improving Student Learning: Applying Deming's Quality Principles in Classrooms Lee Jenkins. ASQ Quality Press. 1998 Innovations in American Government: Education & Health Care Award Winners http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/innovations/humserv.htm Library in the Sky Pick of the Week http://www.nwrel.org/sky/piks.asp Minority students who are poorly prepared for school should be provide with high-quality instruction and social support in a general classroom before making a determination that special education is needed, says a new National Academies report. Since 1975, when Congress passed the "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act" requiring schools to serve disabled students, children in some racial and ethnic groups have been placed in special education programs in disproportionately large numbers. http://www.nationalacademies.org/topnews/#0116 National Science Teachers' Association (NSTA) http://www.nsta.org Pathways to Teaching Careers Program http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/innovations/winners/p2tga97.htm PBS Adult Learning Service, Teachers' Resources. Best Practices for distance degree programs http://www.pbs.org/als/gtd/spotlight/index.html Priorities of the survey report "Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium" is now available on the Web. Illustrated with images of extraordinary celestial phenomena, it describes for a broad audience the scientific opportunities and the initiatives required to realize them. http://www.nationalacademies.org/bpa/reports/aanm Rubrics to Assess Student Projects, Sehome High School, Bellingham, WA http://wwwshs1.bham.wednet.edu/CURRIC/rubricsources.htm Quality Products Rubric http://wwwshs1.bham.wednet.edu/curric/cool/qp.htm School Improvement in Maryland Looking for something specific? Search the School Improvement in Maryland website http://www.mdk12.org/search/query.idq?CiRestriction=what+have+we+learned+about+good+instruction&CiMaxRecordsPerPage=10&CiScope=%2F&TemplateName=query&CiSort=rank%5Bd%5D&HTMLQueryForm=%2Finteract%2Fsearch.html Teaching faculty how to use technology : best practices from leading institutions / RM Epper and AW Bate, eds. Westport, CT : Oryx Press, 2001. Ten best teaching practices : how brain research, learning styles, and standards define teaching competencies / Donna Walker Tileston. Thousand Oaks, Calif:: Corwin Press, c2000 Texas School Performance Review State of Texas Management & Governance http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/innovations/winners/1999/tsprtx99.htm U. S. State & Local Gateway: Education Best Practices http://www.ed.gov/inits/statelocal/sl-best.htm WebQuests-Allegany County, MD http://infusion.allconet.org/webquestallegany.htm What Have We Learned about Good Instruction? Bibliography http://www.mdk12.org/practices/good_instruction/projectbetter/information_literacy/biblio.htm SERVICE LEARNING Center for Service-Learning: Best Practices Best Practices. Academic Credit is for Learning, Not Service; Do Not Compromise Academic Rigor; Set Learning Goals for Students; Establish Criteria. http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~csl/best.htm One Reaching Out to Touch Many: Service Learning Conference http://www.salisbury.edu/community/servicelearning/TECSL.htm Washington County Public Schools Student Service Learning: Seven Essentials http://www.wcboe.k12.md.us/mainfold/curric/sslpage/ SOCIAL SERVICES ACT National Outcomes Network and Outcomes Toolkit. Planning, measuring and sharing community health and quality of life improvement projects. http://www.act-toolkit.com/ Attorney General's Family Violence Task Force; Law Enforcement response to Family Violence http://www.attorneygeneral.gov/family/practices.cfm Best Practices 2000 "Local" Winners, Pennsylvania State Office Transitional facility for the homeless http://www.hud.gov/bestpractices/2000/penn.html Best Practices for Parents Anonymous Group Facilitators. Claremone, CA: Parents Anonymous, 2001 Best Practices for Social Work with refugees and Immigrants. M. Potocky-Tripodi. NY: Columbia U Press, 2002. ISBN 0231115822 Best Practices of Youth Violence Prevention: a Sourcebook for Community Action http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/bestpractices.htm Documentation of Best Practices Addressing Homelessness. Best Practices Agencies. Ottwaw: Canada Mortgage and Housing. 1999 ISBN 0660178885 Families & Children Best Practices http://www.os.dhhs.gov/families/bestprac/htm Focus on Accountability: best practices for juvenile court and probation. M. Kurlychek, P. Torbert, M. Bozynski. DC: U.S. Department of Justice, 1999. Guidelines for family support practice, 2nd ed. Chicago: Family Support America, 2001. Helping Children with Aggression and Conduct Problems: best practices for intervention. ML Bloomquist, SV Schnell. NY: Guildford Press, 2002. National Alliance to End Homelessness: Best Practices and Profiles http://www.endhomelessness.org/best/ New Urbanism and traditional neighborhood development: comprehensive report & best practices guide. New Urban News, Ithaca: New Urban News, 2000. North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services; Division of Social Services, Best Practices http://www.dhhs.state.nc.us/dss/text/tx_cty_cnr/tx_best.htm Roundtables on best practices addressing homelessness: background reports and summaries. Ottawa, Canada: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp., 1999. STATISTICS DHHS, HRSA Community Health Status Indicators Project Community Health Status indicators Web site http://www.communityhealth.hrse.gov State Inpatient Databases (SID): powerful databases for analyzing hospital care http://www.ahrq.gov/data/hcup/hcupsid.htm TEACHING Success Link Examples of creativity and hard work that show all of us that today's classrooms are indeed very much "alive" and are places where students are actively learning and moving toward greater achievement and performance. http://www.successlink.org/best/ Middle Learning Years~Project Better~Best Practices Navigation. Mathematics. Social Studies. English Language Arts. Science. Information Literacy, Thinking and Learning. http://www.mdk12.org/practices/good_instruction/projectbetter/middlely/ TECHNOLOGY Developing the Information Infrastructure for Medicare Beneficiaries. Includes: best practices and models for an open-season enrolment process. http://books.nap.edu/books/0309063884/html/ ECU Handsprings to Learning Handsprings to Learning Best Practices is a brief summary of practices that ECU's students and faculty have determined need consideration for a handheld computer initiative Vendor Hardware Selection, acquisition of hardware, Essential Hardware, essential software www.ecu.edu/handheld/bestpractices.html High-level Best Practice in Software Configuration Management http://www.perforce.com/perforce/bestpractices.html National Academies report calls for a broad-based effort to increase technological literacy for all Americans (audio available, requires RealPlayer 8 Basic). http://www.nationalacademies.org/topnews/#0117 Patient Safety/Technology. Especially adoption of UPN bar codes. http://my.premierinc.com/all/advocacy Providing Valuable Resources for Your Future http://www.intel.com/education/grants/index.htm Best Practices in Technology Integration Best Practices in Technology Integration" is one in a series of courses that comprise the UW Certificate Programs in Teaching, Learning and Technology http://www.outreach.washington.edu/dl/courses/EDCI495TA/ University of Tennessee, College of Agriculture, BestPractices@UT2000 Showcase Recognizes excellence in using technology to support teaching and learning http://web/utk.edu/~casna/best_practices.html TOBACCO Best Practices for Reducing the Health Toll from tobacco in Wyoming http://wdhfs.state.wy.us/tobacco/bpsummary.htm Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation for Adults and Mature Adolescents; brief summary http:// www.ngc.gov/FRAMESETS/guideline_fs.asp?guideline=001475&sSearch_string=tobacco TRAUMA Eskind Biomedical Library of Vanderbilt University, Trauma Resources http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/biolib/services/trauma.html TUTORIALS NorthWest Regional Educational Laboratory, websites for tutorial materials http://www.nwrel.org/sky/mat.asp?ID=1&m=17 WORK SKILLS/Workforce American Public Transit Association Access to Jobs Task Force: 1999 Access-to-work best practices survey summary report, part 1 http://www.apta.com/govt/other/00wtwnet.htm Best Manufacturing Practices Center of Excellence. Identifies exemplary manufacturing practices and disseminates this information to U.S. manufacturers. http://www.glue.umd.edu/errc/FACTSHEETS/bmp.htm Best Manufacturing Practices: this program is an industry and government cooperative technology transfer effort. http://www.bmpcoe.org Best Practices in Flexible Workforce Management: employee retention; managing the part-time professional. Chapel Hill: Best Practices, LLC, 1999 Best Practices in Managed Care Sales Force training. Chapel Hill: Best Practice, LLC Creative employee orientation programs: best practices, creative ideas, and activities for energizing your orientation program. D. Sims, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2001 Fostering Work Skills Learning among Low-Paid Workers, Alan Lesgold http://www.lrdc.pitt.edu/research/pr99.htm, also http://alan.lrdc.pitt.edu/ Collaboration of researchers at a number of institutions who are working as a team to better understand the cognitive requirements of modern work and to identify plausible means whereby low-paid workers can receive the kinds of skill and knowledge upgrading that would improve their job prospects. Goals of the project are a book on this topic and a set of recommendations to the Foundation for future work they might fund. (funded by the Russell Sage Foundation) Human Resources Learning Center http://www.iplabs.com/hr/ Information on human resources benchmarking, best practices, new tools and technology, and HR reengineering. Manufacturing Handbook of Best Practices: an innovation, productivity, and quality focus, JB ReVelle, ed. Boca Raton: St. Lucie Press, 2001 Office of Workforce Policy and Planning, Public Health Program Office http://www.phppo.cdc.gov/owpp/default.asp TEOMA Technologies search engine Search: "best practices workforce" http://s.teoma.com/e?t=best+practices+workforce University of North Carolina: UNC Human Resources Best Practices http://www.northcarolina.edu/hr/bestpractices/bestpractices.cfm VICTORWeb, University System of Maryland Search = best practices