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I know policy is an effective prevention
strategy. Which programs incorporate this strategy?
The following is a selected list of programs that use policy 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.
Community Trials Project
This five-year efficacy project was designed to reduce alcohol-involved
injuries and death by instituting a comprehensive program of community-based
environmental prevention activities and policy changes. It includes five
mutually reinforcing components: community mobilization, responsible beverage
service, drinking and driving, underage drinking, and alcohol access.
(CSAP has rated this program as Model.)
Contact Information: Prevention Research Center, Phone: (510) 486-1111,
Web site:
www.PREV.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.
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.
Challenging College Alcohol Abuse
Contact Information: University of Arizona, Campus Health Service; phone:
(520) 571-7849; e-mail:
koreen@dakotacom.net.
Project PATHE (Positive Action Through
Holistic Education)
Contact Information: Center for Social Organization of Schools, Johns
Hopkins University; phone: (410) 516-8808.
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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