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I am interested in implementing enforcement
as a prevention strategy. Which effective programs use this strategy?
The following is a selected list of programs that use enforcement as a
major component of the program:
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.
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.
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Stop Teenage Addiction to Tobacco (STAT)
STAT is an environmental campaign to enforce laws against tobacco use
by minors and to stimulate communities to implement other prevention strategies,
such as banning or installing lockout devices on vending machines to curtail
youth access to tobacco. Whereas traditional youth smoking prevention
initiatives have focused on reducing the demand or desire for tobacco
among youth, the STAT campaign focuses on cutting off the supply of tobacco
to minors. (CSAP has rated this program as Model.)
Contact Information: Joseph DiFranza, M.D., Department of Family
Medicine and Community Health, University of Massachusetts Medical School;
phone: (508) 856-5658; e-mail: difranzj@ummhc.org.
Other effective programs that use enforcement as one of their strategies
include:
Growing Up Well
Contact Information: Southwest Regional Laboratory; phone: (213)
598-7661.
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.
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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