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I am interested in implementing a program
that uses educational approaches to prevention. Which effective programs
make use of this strategy?
The following is a selected list of programs
that use policy as a major component of the program:
Across Ages
This school-based mentoring project for sixth graders increases resiliency
and reduces the likelihood that students will drop out of school, become
adolescent parents, or use alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs. The project
includes mentoring, community service, family involvement, and a curriculum.
(CSAP has rated this program as Model.) Contact Information: Temple
University, Center for Intergenerational Learning; phone: (215) 204-6708;
Web site:
www.temple.edu/CIL/Acrossageshome.htm.
All-Stars
This prevention program uses normative education and resistance skills
training to prevent high-risk behavior in early adolescents, ages 11-15.
Students receive normative education to correct erroneous beliefs about
the prevalence and acceptability of use among peers and to establish conservative
group norms regarding substance use; and resistance skills training to
develop the social and behavioral skills they need to refuse offers to
use substances. This program stemmed from the research program Adolescent
Alcohol Prevention Trial. (The U.S. Department of Education has rated
this program as Promising and CSAP has rated this program as Model.)
Contact Information: Tanglewood Research,
Incorporated; phone: (800) 826-4539; Web site: www.tanglewood.net.
The ATLAS Program (Athletes Training
and Learning to Avoid Steroids)
This multi-component, school-based, substance abuse prevention program
is for male high school athletes, ages 13-19 years old. The classroom
sessions involve role-plays, student-created campaigns, and educational
games that teach students, among other lessons, how to debunk media images
that promote substance abuse. The effectiveness of this strategy was reflected
in a program evaluation study, which indicated that the program reduced
substance abuse risk factors-including a lessened belief in media advertisement-among
participants. (The U.S. Department of Education has rated this program
as Exemplary and CSAP has rated this program as Model.)
Contact Information: Division of Health
Promotion and Sports Medicine at Oregon Health Sciences University; phone:
(503) 494-8051; Web site:
www.ohsu.edu/som-hpsm/atlasprgm.html.
CASASTART (Striving Together to Achieve Rewarding Tomorrows)
This comprehensive, neighborhood-based intervention brings police, schools,
and community-based organizations together to do two things: re-direct
the lives of youngsters who are considered likely to end up in trouble
(i.e., use drugs, become delinquent, drop out of school) and reduce and
control illegal drugs and related crime in the neighborhoods in which
they live. (The U.S. Department of Education has rated this program as
Exemplary. CSAP has rated this program as Model.)
Contact Information: National Center on
Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University; phone: (212) 841-5208;
Web site: www.casacolumbia.org.
The Child Development Project (CDP)
This multi-year, comprehensive school-change program includes staff training
in instruction and classroom management practices, cross-grade "buddy"
activities, community-building, and parent involvement. CDP aims to create
elementary schools that foster students' full development by encouraging
supportive relationships; a sense of common purpose; a commitment to social,
ethical, and intellectual learning; and meaningful and engaging curricula.
(The U.S. Department of Education has rated this program as Promising.
CSAP has rated this program as Model.)
Contact Information: Developmental Studies Center; phone: (800)
666-7270, ext. 239; Web site: www.devstu.org/cdp.
Leadership and Resiliency Program
This school- and community-based program for
high school students, ages 14-17, is designed to enhance youths' internal
strengths and resiliency while preventing their involvement in substance
use and violence. Program components include weekly resiliency groups,
alternative adventure activities, and community service projects. Cooperative
agreements are established between participating schools and service organizations.
(CSAP has rated this program as Model.)
Contact Information: Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board;
phone: (703) 934-5476; Email: Laura.Yager@co.fairfax.va.us.
Life Skills Training
This school-based tobacco, alcohol, and drug abuse prevention program
for adolescents focuses on personal and social skills development in combination
with drug-resistance skills and prevention-related information. (The U.S.
Department of Education has rated this program as Exemplary and
CSAP has rated this program as Model.) Contact Information: National
Health Promotion Associates, Inc.; phone: (800) 293-4969; Web site: www.lifeskillstraining.com.
Positive Action
This program includes integrated kindergarten through eighth grade classroom
curricula, school preparation and teacher training, a school-wide climate-change
program, and family and community involvement programs. Although a high
school component is also offered, adequate evidence of efficacy at this
level was not available. (The U.S. Department of Education has rated this
program as Promising and CSAP has rated this program as Model.)
Contact Information: Positive Action, Inc.; phone: (800) 345-2974;
Web site: www.positiveaction.net.
Project ACHIEVE
This school-wide prevention and early intervention program targets elementary-age
students who are academically and socially at risk. Project ACHIEVE provides
school-wide prevention services in every classroom with the aim of reducing
disciplinary referrals. (CSAP has rated this program as Model.)
Contact Information: phone: (813) 974-9498; Web site:
www.air.org/cecp/teams/greenhouses/projectachieve.htm.
Project ALERT
This project teaches middle school children to establish no-drug-use norms,
develop reasons not to use drugs, and resist pro-drug pressures. It focuses
on the substances that adolescents use first and most widely: alcohol,
tobacco, marijuana, and inhalants. (The U.S. Department of Education has
rated this program as Exemplary and CSAP has rated this program
as Model.). Contact Information: Best Foundation; phone:
(800) ALERT-10; Web site:
www.projectalert.best.org.
Project Northland
This school-community project includes parental involvement, peer-led
skills-building sessions, and community-wide policy change. The project
engages networks of public and private organizations in coordinated activities
around adolescent alcohol use prevention. Community-wide task forces identify
major community problems, then develop and implement policy action plans.
(The U.S. Department of Education has rated this program as Exemplary
and CSAP has rated this program as Model.)
Contact Information: School of Public Health, University of Minnesota;
phone: (800) 643-5388; Web site: www.hazelden.org.
Project STAR (Students Taught Awareness and Resistance-also known as the
Midwestern Prevention Project)
This drug-abuse prevention program reaches the entire community with a
comprehensive school program, mass media efforts, a parent program, community
organization, and health policy change. The mass media component-consisting
of approximately 31 television, radio, and print broadcasts per year-promotes,
reinforces, and helps maintain the project. This component is implemented
throughout the five-year program. (The U.S. Department of Education has
rated this program as Promising and CSAP has rated this program
as Model.)
Contact Information: Department of Preventive Medicine at the University
of Southern California; phone: (323) 865-0325.
Project Toward No Tobacco Use (Project
TNT)
This school-based prevention project is designed to delay the initiation
and reduce the use of tobacco by middle school children. The theory underlying
Project TNT is that young people will be best able to resist using tobacco
products if they become aware of misleading social information, develop
skills that counteract social pressures to use tobacco, and learn about
the physical consequences of tobacco use, such as addiction. (The U.S.
Department of Education has rated this program as Exemplary and
CSAP has rated this program as Model).
Contact Information: phone: (323) 442-2594; Web site:
http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/index.htm.
Reconnecting Youth
This school-based, peer-group program for high school students at high
risk of dropping out of school builds life skills by reducing risk factors
and enhancing protective factors that are linked with adolescent problem
behaviors in general, and with adolescent drug involvement specifically.
The semester-long intervention integrates small-group work, life skills
training models, and a peer-group support model. (CSAP has rated this
program as Model.)
Contact Information: Psychosocial and Community Health Department,
University of Washington School of Nursing; phone: (800) 733-6786; Web
site:
www.nesonline.com.
Seattle Social Development Project
This school-based intervention for grades 1-6 seeks to reduce childhood
risks for delinquency and drug abuse by improving parent-child communication
and changing teachers' classroom management practices. (The U.S. Department
of Education has rated this program as Promising and CSAP has rated
this program as Model.)
Contact Information: Social Development Research Group, University
of Washington; phone: (206) 543-7655; Web site: depts.washington.edu/ssdp.
Other effective programs that use educational
strategies include:
ADEPT Drug and Alcohol Community Prevention
Project
Contact Information: Salem State College; phone: (978) 542-6148.
Aggression Replacement
Training Contact Information: Center for Research on Aggression, Syracuse
University; phone: (315) 443-9641.
Aggressors, Victims, and Bystanders
Contact Information: Education Development Center, Inc.; phone:
(617) 969-7100, ext. 2737; Web site:
www.edc.org/.
Al's Pals: Kids Making Healthy Choices
Contact Information: Wingspan, LLC; phone: (804) 754-0100; Web
site: wingspanworks.com.
Ceden Family Resource Center
Contact Information: Any Baby Can Child and Family Resource Center;
phone: (512) 477-1130; Web site: www.abcaus.org.
Club Hero
Contact Information: National Families
in Action; phone: (404) 248-9679; Web site: www.nationalfamilies.org.
Facing History and Ourselves
Contact Information: Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation,
Inc.; phone: (617) 232-1595; Web site:
www.facing.org.
Growing Healthy
Contact Information: National Center for Health Education; phone:
(212) 334-9470, ext. 31; Web site:
www.nche.org.
I Can Problem Solve
Contact Information: MCP Hahnemann University, Department of Clinical
and Health Psychology; phone: (215) 762-7205; Web site: www.researchpress.com.
Know Your Body
Contact Information: The Know Your Body Program, American Health
Foundation; phone: (212) 551-2509 or 2507; e-mail: KYBprogram@aol.com.
Open Circle Curriculum
Contact Information: Reach Out to Schools: Social Competency Program,
The Stone Center, Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College; phone:
(781) 283-3778; Web site: www.wellesley.edu/OpenCircle.
Parenting Wisely
Contact Information: Psychology Department, Ohio University; phone:
(740) 593-1074; Web site: www.familyworksinc.com.
Project CARE (Effective Schools Project)
Contact Information: Denise Gottfredson, University of Maryland
at College Park; phone: (301) 405-4717; e-mail: dgottfredson@bssz.umd.edu.
Strengthening Families Program: For Parents and Youth 10-14 (Iowa Strengthening
Families)
Contact Information: Institute for Social
and Behavioral Research, Iowa State University; phone: (515) 294-3613;
Web site:
www.extension.iastate.edu/sfp/.
Substance Abuse Resources and Disability Issues
Contact Information: School of Medicine/Wright State University;
phone: (937) 259-1384; Web site: www.med.wright.edu/citar/sardi/.
Sunshine Project
Contact Information: Salem Baptist Church; phone: (404) 792-0303.
Teenage Health Teaching Modules
Contact Information: Health and Human Development
Programs, Education Development Center, Inc.; phone: (800) 225-4276, ext.
2364; Web site: http://www.thtm.org.
Woodrock Youth Development Project
Contact Information: Woodrock; phone: (215) 848-5213; e-mail: WRADM@aol.com.
For more information on these and other effective programs, visit the
Northeast CAPT's Database of Prevention Programs, available at http://www.hhd.org/capt/default.asp.
Please contact CSAP's Northeast CAPT at capt@edc.org
for further information.
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