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I am implementing a program that relies
on collaboration as a prevention strategy. Are there other effective programs
that use this strategy?
The following is a selected list of programs
that use collaboration as a major component of the program:
CASASTART (Striving Together to Achieve
Rewarding Tomorrows)
CASASTART is a substance abuse and violence prevention program serving
especially high-risk 8-13 year olds and their families living in socially
distressed neighborhoods. The program is a comprehensive, neighborhood-based,
school-centered secondary intervention that brings police, schools, and
community-based organizations together to achieve two goals: 1) re-direct
the lives of youngsters who are considered likely to end up in trouble
(i.e., to use drugs, become delinquent, and drop out of school) and 2)
reduce and control illegal drugs and related crime in the neighborhoods
in which the youth live in order to make them safer and more nurturing
environments in which to raise children. (CSAP has rated this program
as Model.)
Contact Information: National Center on
Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, telephone: 212-841-5208;
fax: 212-956-8020; web site:
http://www.casacolumbia.org.
Faith Based Prevention Model (Formerly
Jackson County Church Coalition)
The Jackson County Alcohol and Other Drug Partnership is a community coalition
that facilitates alcohol and other drug abuse prevention and education
activities. Six rural churches, as part of the Partnership Prevention
Program, develop, implement, and evaluate drug prevention programs for
their respective church communities. (CSAP has rated this program as Promising.)
Contact Information: Area Agency on Aging
for North Florida; telephone: (850) 488-0055; fax: (850) 414-6914
Substance Abuse Resources and Disability
Issues
This program provides disability-specific AOD prevention and referral
services to youth, aged 16-20. The services are delivered in five Midwestern
states at sites including hospitals, independent living centers, rehabilitation
facilities, disability-specific agencies, and higher education institutions.
A multi-agency collaborative model is used to transfer information through
training to individual sites. Written materials, peer support groups,
and family involvement are all included as components of this model. (CSAP
has rated this program as Promising.)
Contact Information: Substance Abuse Resources
and Disability Issues (SARDI), School of Medicine/Wright State Universi
http://www.med.wright.edu/citar/sardi/
Leadership and Resiliency Program
(LRP) The Leadership and Resiliency Program (LRP) is a school- and community-based
program for high school students (14 to 17 years of age) that works to
enhance youths' internal strengths and resiliency, while preventing involvement
in substance use and violence. Program components include resiliency groups
held at least weekly during the school day, alternative adventure activities
(i.e., ropes courses, white water kayaking, camping), and community service
in which participants are active in a number of community- and school-focused
projects. Cooperative agreements must be set up between the school where
the program will be implemented and the substance abuse treatment or health
service provider, as well as with a humane foundations (i.e., animal shelters),
contractors for outdoor activities, volunteer groups or businesses that
can provide space for summer activities, and the elementary schools where
the students will deliver their puppet projects. (CSAP has rated this
program as Model.)
Contact Information: Fairfax-Falls Church
Community Services Board; telephone: (703) 934-5476; fax: (703) 934-8742
Lion's-Quest Working Toward Peace
Lions-Quest Working Toward Peace (WTP) is a school-based, comprehensive
program designed to teach and reinforce a repertoire of anger management
and conflict resolution skills. It brings together the school, family,
peers, community, and the media in a network of support to teach and reinforce
anger and conflict management skills. The major goals of the program are
to help students understand the value of peaceful conflict resolution;
to study peaceful role models; and to learn ways to manage anger and resolve
conflicts peacefully.
Contact Information: Quest International; telephone: (740) 522-6400;
Web site: http://www.quest.edu
Other effective programs that use collaboration
includes:
Across Ages
Contact Information: Temple University, Center
for Intergenerational Learning; telephone: (215) 204-6708 (main number),
(215) 204-6970 (Main switchboard); fax: (215) 204-6733; web site:
http://www.temple.edu/CIL/Acrossageshome.htm
Project PATHE
Contact Information: Center for Social Organization
of Schools (CSOS), Johns Hopkins University; telephone: (410) 516-8808.
Parenting Partnership
Contact Information: National Center on Public Education and Social Policy;
telephone: (206) 543-6382; fax: (401) 874-5453; web site:
www.ncpe.uri.edu
For more information on these and other effective
programs, visit the Northeast CAPT's Database of Prevention Programs (http://www.hhd.org/capt/default.asp).
Please contact CSAP's Northeast CAPT at capt@edc.org
for further information.
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