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What's New
The following are summaries of the new or modified information that has been placed on the "Building a Successful Prevention Program" web-site (beginning in August 1999):
Apr 14, 2005
- Added the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) in the "Rated Effective By" section for 24 best and promising practices using information from OJJDP's Model Program Guide at http://www.dsgonline.com/. These 24 practices were deemed either "Effective" or "Exemplary" by OJJDP.
- Changed the following practices from Promising to Best using the information from OJJDP's Model Program Guide: Bicultural Competence Skills Approach, Families in Action, I Can Problem Solve, and Native American Prevention Project Against AIDS and Substance Abuse.
- Removed from the database the programs/strategies Project STATUS and Norms for Behavior and Rule Setting in School due to their lack of replicability.
Apr 13, 2005
- Updated information on Parenting Skills Program, Project SUCCESS, Strengthening Families Program, ATLAS, and Early Risers.
Apr 11, 2005
- Updated information on Make Parenting a Pleasure and Families and Schools Together (FAST).
Apr 8, 2005
- Updated information on Peacebuilders, Staying Connected with Your Teen, and Guiding Good Choices.
Apr 7, 2005
- Updated information on Staying Connected with Your Teen (formerly Parents Who Care)
Apr 6, 2005
- Updated information on Helping the Noncompliant Child, Project ACHIEVE, Communities That Care, Healthy Families America, Peacebuilders, and Faith-Based Prevention Model.
Apr 5, 2005
- Updated information on PATHS and Guiding Good Choices.
Mar 31, 2005
- Updated information on Too Good for Drugs, I Can Problem Solve, Raising a Thinking Child, Peacemakers, Leadership and Resiliency, Project Alert, and Family Effectiveness Training.
Mar 23, 2005
- Updated information on Creating Lasting Connections and Brief Strategic Family Therapy.
Mar 22, 2005
- Updated information on Project Venture and Communities Mobilizing for Changes on Alcohol.
Mar 21, 2005
- Updated information on DARE to Be You.
Mar 20, 2005
- Updated information on Friendly PEERsuasion.
Mar 17, 2005
- Updated information on Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care Program and Preventive Alcohol Education program.
Feb 13, 2005
- Updated information on Parents Who Care. The new name of this program is Staying Connected with Your Teen.
Jan 05, 2005
- Updated information on Challenging College Alcohol Abuse.
Dec 13, 2004
- Updated contact information on Life Skills.
Nov 15, 2004
- Updated information on Birth to Three (now named Make Parenting a Pleasure) and Growing Healthy.
Nov 04, 2004
- Updated information on BASICS.
Nov 03, 2004
- Updated information on Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol, Teenage Health Teaching Modules, Communities That Care, Incredible Years, SOAR, PATHS, Guiding Good Choices, Birth to Three, All Stars, and Parents Who Care.
Oct 15, 2004
- Updated information on Project Toward No Drug Use, Project Toward No Tobacco Use, Second Step, Keepin' it REAL, and Multisystemic Therapy.
Oct 13, 2004
- Updated information on Strengthening Families: For Parents and Youth 10-14.
Oct 11, 2004
- Updated information on Project ACHIEVE and Too Good for Drugs.
Oct 8, 2004
- Updated information on NAPPASA and Dando Fuerza a La Familia.
Oct 7, 2004
- Updated information on Raising a Thinking Child.
Oct 6, 2004
- Updated information on Functional Family Therapy and Syracuse Family Development Program.
- Updated information on Healthy Families America.
Oct 5, 2004
- Updated information on Border Binge Drinking Reduction Program, Coping Power, Leadership and Resiliency, and Social Competence Promotion Program.
Oct 1, 2004
- Updated information on Brief Strategic Family Therapy.
Sep 30, 2004
- Updated information on Home-Based Behavioral Systems Family Therapy, Brief Strategic Family Therapy, and Family Effectiveness Training.
Aug 19, 2004
- Added a new Promising Practice, HeadOn: Substance Abuse Prevention for Grades 6-8.
Jun 22, 2004
- Updated information on the following programs: Parents Who Care, PATHS, Guiding Good Choices, and SOAR.
- Updated the links to state-specific data on the "Web Site Data Sources" page, http://casat.unr.edu/bestpractices/nadata.htm
May 15, 2004
- Updated information on the following programs: Any Baby Can, Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol, Parenting Wisely, Guiding Good Choices, PAL Peer Assistance and Leadership.
May 6, 2004
- Added a new promising practice, Great Body Shop.
- Changed Project Venture from a promising practice to a best practice due to its change in classification with SAMHSA's Model Program listing.
Apr 16, 2004
- Added a new promising practice, Project Venture.
- Updated information on the following programs: Leadership and Resiliency, Baby SAFE, Faith-Based Prevention Model, Teenage Health Teaching Modules, Communities That Care, Raising a Thinking Child, Healthy Families America.
Apr 14, 2004
- Added two new best practices: Children in the Middle and keepin' it REAL.
Mar 17, 2004
- Added a new best practice, Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (BASICS)
Mar 15, 2004
- Changed Peacemakers from a Promising status to a Best status due to its change in classification with SAMHSA's Model Program listing.
Mar 3, 2004
- Added a new best practice, Border Binge-Drinking Reduction Program.
Feb 27, 2004
- Added a new best practice, Family Matters.
Jan 22, 2004
- Added a new best practice, Coping Power.
Dec 23, 2003
- Updated information on the following programs: Nurse-Family Partnership, CICC's Effective Black Parenting, CASASTART, Bry's Behavioral Monitoring, and Syracuse FDRP.
Dec 22, 2003
- Updated information on the following programs: New Connections, Project TND, Project TNT, Strengthening Families Iowa, Social Competence Promotion Program, Baby SAFE, Too Good for Drugs, and Perry Pre-School Project.
Dec 10, 2003
- Improved search to be an 'or' based search with ranked results.
June 5, 2003
- Added a new Promising Practice, Dando Fuerza a la Familia.
June 4, 2003
- Added a new Promising Practice, Let Each One Teach One.
May 14, 2003
- Added a new best practice, Al's Pals: Kids Making Healthy Choices, to Step 6.
April 30, 2003
- Added two new Promising Programs: Peacemakers, and Preventive Alcohol Education Program.
April 17, 2003
- Added Second Step: A Violence Prevention Curriculum to the best practices list on Step 6.
April 14, 2003
- Made modifications to the risk factors on the best and promising practices search page. This includes changing "Early and Persistent Anti-Social Behavior" from the school domain to the individual/peer domain. And a new risk factor, "gang involvement" was added. These modifications were made due to the changes instituted by Hawkins and Catalano (the researchers who developed the list of risk and protective factors included on this website).
- Made the above modifications to the list of risk factors on the website.
April 2, 2003
- Added information regarding SAMHSA National Registry of Effective Program (NREP) status onto website. This includes icons next to best practices and promising practices on the alphabetical listings page if they are included on the SAMHSA NREP. This also includes identification as promising, effective or model program status below the titles of those programs on the programs' pages.
March 27, 2003
- Updated information on the Preparing for the Drug Free Years page. This included updates to the contact information, the cost section, and a change in the name. The name of the program is now Families That Care: Guiding Good Choices.
- Updated the population section on the promising practice, New Connections.
November 19, 2002
- Added the following new best and promising practices to the website: New Connections, Parenting Partnership, Schools and Family Education (SAFE) Children, and Community Trials Intervention to Reduce High-Risk Drinking. To review the programs, go to the alphabetical listings page and click on the program name.
November 12, 2002
- Added the following new best practice to the website: Protecting You/Protecting Me. To review the program, go to the alphabetical listings page and click on the program name.
- Added the following new promising practices to the web site: Urban Women Against Substance Abuse (UWASA) and Baby S.A.F.E. (Substance Abuse Free Environment) Hawaii. To review the programs, go to the alphabetical listings page and click on the program name.
November 7, 2002
- Updated the information on the best practice, Positive Action, according to feedback from the program developer.
October 30, 2002
- Added a new best practice to the web site: Project SUCCESS. To review the program, go to the alphabetical listings page and click on the program name.
- Added a new promising practice to the web site: Teams-Games-Tournaments Alcohol Prevention. To review the program, go to the alphabetical listings page and click on the program name.
October 29, 2002
- Added a new promising practice to the web site: PAL Peer Assistance and Leadership. To review the program, go to the alphabetical listings page and click on the program name in the "Promising Practices" section.
October 28, 2002
- Updated the information on the following promising practices according to feedback from the program contacts: I Can Problem Solve, and Raising a Thinking Child.
October 24, 2002
- Updated the information on the following best practices according to feedback from the program contacts: Any Baby Can (CEDEN Family Resource Center), Nurse Family Partnership, Project ACHIEVE, and Syracuse Family Development Research Program.
October 23, 2002
- Updated the information on the following best and promising practices according to feedback from the program contacts: Strengthening Multi-Ethnic Families, Strengthening Hawaii Families, Project Towards No Tobacco Use, Project Towards No Drug Abuse, Parents as Teachers, Parenting (Adolescents) Wisely, Life Skills Training Program, and Home-Based Behavioral Systems Family Therapy.
October 22, 2002
- Updated the information on the following best practices according to feedback from the program contacts: Families and Schools Together, and Helping the Noncompliant Child.
October 21, 2002
- Updated the information on the following best and promising practices according to feedback from the program contacts: Faith-Based Prevention Model, Dare to Be You, Creating Lasting Family Connections, and CASASTART.
October 18, 2002
- Added a new promising practice to the web site: Sembrando Salud. To review the program, go to the alphabetical listings page and click on the program name in the "Promising Practices" section.
- Updated the information on the following best and promising practices according to feedback from the program contacts: Growing Healthy, Birth to Three Program, Friendly PEERsuasion, and Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol.
October 17, 2002
- Updated the information on Communities That Care according to feedback from the program contact.
October 16, 2002
- Updated the information on the following best and promising practices according to feedback from the program contacts: Teenage Health Teaching Modules, Treatment Foster Care Programs, Too Good for Drugs, Strengthening Families Programs: For Parents and Youth 10-14, Project ALERT, Nurturing Program, Multisystemic Therapy Program, Keep a Clear Mind, Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters, All Stars, Adolescent Transitions Program, and Across Ages.
October 15, 2002
- Added a new promising practice to the web site: Storytelling for Empowerment. To review the program, go to the alphabetical listings page and click on the program name in the "Promising Practices" section.
October 14, 2002
- Added a new promising practice to the web site: Project Break Away. To review the program, go to the alphabetical listings page and click on the program name in the "Promising Practices" section.
October 11, 2002
- Added a new promising practice to the web site: Club Hero. To review the program, go to the alphabetical listings page and click on the program name in the "Promising Practices" section.
October 3, 2002
- Added a new survey tool to the Community Readiness section of the website.
September 19, 2002
- Added a new best practice to the web site: Start Taking Alcohol Risks Seriously (STARS) for Families. To review the program, go to the alphabetical listings page and click on the program name.
September 13, 2002
- Added a page on fidelity and adaptation. The link to this page can be found on the homepage of Step 6.
August 12, 2002
- Modified the Department of Education's Principles of Effectiveness page to include the most current information on the Principles.
June 10, 2002
- Changed Friendly PEERsuasion from a promising practice to a best practice due to a change in classification by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention.
May 15, 2002
- Modified the "Tutoring" best practices page to add more information to the description section.
March 21, 2002
- Modified information on the Step 5 page to make clear that "universal, selective, and indicated" refer to the type of prevention strategy, not the population.
February 14, 2002
- Added a new best practice to the web site: Challenging College Alcohol Abuse. To review the program, go to the alphabetical listings page and click on the program name.
- Updated information on the following best practice: Too Good for Drugs.
February 11, 2002
- Added a new best practice to the web site: Too Good for Drugs. To review the program, go to the alphabetical listings page and click on the program name.
January 30, 2002
- Added new variables to best practices web site. These include a new "rural" population variable and a category that identifies which federal agency(ies) deemed the program/strategy to be research-based and effective. You will see the new categories on the best and promising practices search page, as well as on the best and promising practices pages themselves.
January 17, 2002
- Changed Social Competence Promotion Program for Young Adolescents from a promising practice to a best practice due to a change in classification by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention.
January 16, 2002
- Changed Syracuse Family Development Research Project from a promising practice to a best practice due to a change in classification by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention.
January 15, 2002
- Updated information on the following programs: Parenting Skills Program and Project ACHIEVE. To view these programs, go to the alphabetical listings page.
January 14, 2002
- Changed Baltimore Mastery Learning and Good Behavior Game from a promising practice to a best practice due to a change in classification by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention.
- Updated information on the following programs: Reconnecting Youth, Strengthening Hawai'i Families. To view these programs, go to the alphabetical listings page.
January 9, 2002
- Updated information on the following programs: Birth to Three, Early Childhood Substance Abuse Prevention Program, and Brief Strategic Family Therapy. To view these programs, go to the alphabetical listings page.
January 8, 2002
- Added two new best practices to the web site: Positive Action, and Leadership and Resiliency. To view these programs, go to the alphabetical listings page.
January 7, 2002
- Updated information on the following programs: Strengthening Families Program and DARE To Be You. To view these programs, go to the alphabetical listings page.
January 4, 2002
- Updated information on the Nurturing Program. To view this program, go to the alphabetical listings page.
January 2, 2002
- Updated information on the following practices: Communities That Care, Promoting Alternative THinking Strategies, Parents Who Care, Preparing for the Drug Free Years, and Seattle Social Development Project. To view these programs, go to the alphabetical listings page.
December 31, 2001
- Updated information on the following practices: Quantum Opportunities, Project Toward No Tobacco Use, Project Toward No Drug Use, and Nurturing Program. To view these programs, go to the alphabetical listings page.
December 27, 2001
- Updated information on the following practices: All Stars, Friendly PEERsuasion, Home-Based Behavioral Systems Family Therapy, Parenting Adolescents Wisely, Parents As Teachers, Treatment Foster Care, Functional Family Therapy, and Parenting and Family Skills: Helping the Noncompliant Child. To view these programs, go to the alphabetical listings page.
- Per the request of the developer, changed the name of "Parenting and Family Skills: Helping the Noncompliant Child" to "Helping the Noncompliant Child: Parenting and Family Skills Program."
December 12, 2001
- Updated information on the following practices: Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol and Project ACHIEVE. To view these programs, go to the alphabetical listings page.
December 11, 2001
- Updated information on the following practices: Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters, Multisystemic Therapy, Syracuse Family Development Research Program, MELD, Project STAR, and Weissberg's Social Competence Promotion Program. Weissberg's program is now listed as "Social Competence Promotion Program for Young Adolescents." To view these programs, go to the alphabetical listings page.
December 7, 2001
- Updated information on the following practices: Project Alert and Strengthening Multi-Ethnic Families. To view these programs, go to the alphabetical listings page.
- Changed the classification of the following practices from "Best" to "Promising" due to change in classification by federal agencies: Birth to Three Program - Make Parenting a Pleasure; Early Childhood Substance Abuse Prevention Program; Growing Healthy; I Can Problem Solve; Solutions for Families; Teenage Health Teaching Modules; and Woodrock Youth Development Program.
- Changed the classification of the following program from "Promising" to "Best" due to change in classification by a federal agency: CASASTART.
- Removed the following programs from the web site due to change in classification by federal agencies: Family MAASAI/Project DUNBAAR; I'm Special; Project Venture; Substance Abuse Resources and Disability Issues.
December 6, 2001
- Updated information on the following best practices: Incredible Years and Stop Teenage Addiction to Tobacco. To view these programs, go to the alphabetical listings page.
December 5, 2001
- Updated information on the following best practice: Families and Schools Together. To view this program, go to the alphabetical listings page.
December 4, 2001
- Updated information on the following best and promising practices: Strengthening Families Program: For Parents and Youth 10-14; Bi-Cultural Competence Skills Approach; Keep a Clear Mind; I Can Problem Solve; Raising a Thinking Child; and Teenage Health Teaching Modules. To view these programs, go to the alphabetical listings page.
December 3, 2001
- Updated information on the following best and promising practices: Nurse-Family Partnership, I'm Special, Effective Black Parenting (now listed as CICC's Effective Black Parenting Program), Faith-Based Prevention, CASASTART, Project Northland, and Adolescent Transitions Program. To view these programs, go to the alphabetical listings page.
November 28, 2001
- Modified the information included in "Mentoring - Big Brothers/Big Sisters," in order to provide more information about the Big Brothers and Big Sisters program.
November 26, 2001
- Added the best practice, Early Risers "Skills for Success."
November 21, 2001
- The format of Step 6: Best Practices was changed. A searchable database of best and promising practices is now available.
- The definitions of best and promising practices on this web site were modified slightly in order to incorporate changed definitions by federal agencies.
November 13, 2001
- For CSAP's Principles of Prevention (link found on Step 6 homepage), a new page was added which summarized the principles. You can then click on the full copy of the document for more information.
November 9, 2001
- The format of Step 6 of the web site will change on Wednesday, November 21, 2001. A search function will be added to enable searches for best and promising practices by multiple variables. Consequently, the format of the Step 6 pages will change. However, the content of the pages will remain the same.
August 3, 2001
- Added two additional best practices: Parents As Teachers and Healthy Families America.
August 1, 2001
- Updated information on the Perry Preschool Project - High/Scope Approach page. This includes modifications to the description, population, and evaluation tool.
July 25, 2001
- Updated the description, research findings, and contact information for Life Skills.
June 26, 2001
- Added the following best practice: Brief Strategic Family Therapy.
June 14, 2001
- Added a "Community Mobilization" section to Step 1 of the web-site. This includes information on the benefits of forming a community coalition and how to form a coalition.
June 11, 2001
- Added the following new best practices: Multisystemic Therapy, Parents Who Care, and Project Towards No Drug Abuse.
April 20, 2001
- Added additional information to Syracuse Family Development Research Project.
April 16, 2001
- Added additional information to: Project PATHE, Family MAASAI/Project DUNBAAR, Parenting Wisely, Houston Parent-Child Development Center, I'm Special
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