Hosted by: CORE Investments

Interpreter: Stella Lauerman

Bilingual meeting support: Gisella Carrasco

Language: English, with simultaneous Spanish interpretation

When individual practitioners, agencies, and systems decide to address community needs with a new program or initiative, we have many options for choosing one — sometimes, an overwhelming number of options. We can take a good idea and design a program from scratch because we understand the need so well. We can borrow or adapt elements from a program or initiative we’ve heard about, read about, or seen to be effective elsewhere, molding it into something that fits our situation. Or we can rely on various degrees of evidence and testing
about whether or not a program has worked under similar conditions.

A database that includes a range of options to meet programs’ needs, from good ideas to effective approaches and evidence-based practices, searchable by topic and key words, is just a few clicks away on DataShare Santa Cruz County. Called the Promising Practices database, it is a “living library” that also offers an exciting option to add local programs unique to our
community.

Attend this Coffee Chat where we’ll demonstrate how to search for programs and policies, review how the CORE Continuum of Results and Evidence aligns with the database, and share how you can be involved in making the database even more robust and relevant to Santa Cruz County. If you’d like some help adding your program to the Promising Practices database, we can offer some support in gathering the information needed to submit a request to add a program.

Missed the Event?

See the recap videos and materials in our resources!

The Promising Practices Database on DataShare →

Watch recordings of previous events on the CORE Resources page.