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Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Project from the Lamar Soutter Library at U Mass Medical School references dozens of evidence based resources in public health.

Designed to assist practitioners and communities in implementing evidence-based prevention and intervention programs that can make a difference in the lives of children and communities. The MPG database of evidence-based programs covers the entire continuum of youth services from prevention through sanctions to reentry. The MPG can be used to assist juvenile justice practitioners, administrators, and researchers to enhance accountability, ensure public safety, and reduce recidivism. The MPG is an easy-to-use tool that offers a database of scientifically-proven programs that address a range of issues, including substance abuse, mental health, and education programs.

Designed to assist practitioners and communities in implementing evidence-based prevention and intervention programs that can make a difference in the lives of children and communities. The MPG database of evidence-based programs covers the entire continuum of youth services from prevention through sanctions to reentry. The MPG can be used to assist juvenile justice practitioners, administrators, and researchers to enhance accountability, ensure public safety, and reduce recidivism. The MPG is an easy-to-use tool that offers a database of scientifically-proven programs that address a range of issues, including substance abuse, mental health, and education programs.

The Promising Practices Network (PPN) is dedicated to providing quality evidence-based information about what works to improve the lives of children, youth, and families. The PPN site features summaries of programs and practices that are proven to improve outcomes for children. All of the information on the site has been carefully screened for scientific rigor, relevance, and clarity. The information offered is organized around four major areas: Programs that Work, Research in Brief, Service Delivery, and Partner Pages.

This website offers Federally-developed interactive tools and other resources to help community organizations and partnerships in your efforts to support youth. Included are tools and resources to help you form effective partnerships, assess community assets, understand risk factors and protective factors, generate maps of local and Federal resources, and search for evidence-based youth programs.

Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE) unites medical, public health, scientific and environmental health advocates and scientists to review data on health and the environment. It contains reports and a database of evidence on health effects of toxins.

Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce from NLM hosts a tutorial on evidence based public health that links to dozens of resources.

NREPP is a searchable database of interventions for the prevention and treatment of mental and substance use disorders. SAMHSA has developed this resource to help people, agencies, and organizations implement and disseminate programs and practices in their communities. NREPP is one way that SAMHSA is working to improve access to information on tested interventions and thereby reduce the lag time between the creation of scientific knowledge and its practical application in the field.

Diffusion of Effective Behavioral Interventions

Resource page supporting academics who wish to engage in harm reduction, anti-racist, drug policy reform. Founded in January 2016, DPA's Department of Research and Academic Engagement (DRAE) works to bridge the divide between research and effective drug policies. Our drug policies are driven by ideology, politics, stigma, greed, and/or racism rather than the evidence about what works. We at DRAE believe that it is more important than ever to promote policies grounded in scholarship and that policymakers need tools to access and use research.