• 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.
  
  Contact Information: Temple University, Center for Intergenerational Learning; phone: (215) 204-6708; Web site: http://templecil.org/Acrossageshome.htm.
  
  
• 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.

  Contact Information: National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University; phone: (212) 841-5208; Web site: www.casacolumbia.org/absolutenm/templates/Home.aspx.

• Faith Based Prevention (formerly Jackson County Alcohol Partnership)
  The Faith Based Prevention Model is a community coalition that facilitates alcohol and other drug abuse prevention and education activities. As part of the Partnership Prevention Program, six rural churches develop, implement, and evaluate drug prevention programs for their respective church communities. (CSAP has rated this program as Promising.)

  Contact Information: Mary Sutherland, Health Promotion Program Initiative; phone: (850) 385-1205.

• 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.

  Contact Information: Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board; phone: (703) 934-5476; e-mail: Laura.Yager@co.fairfax.va-us.

• Lion's-Quest Working Toward Peace
  This school-based, comprehensive program brings together school, family, peers, community, and the media 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, identify peaceful role models, and manage anger and resolve conflicts peacefully. (The U.S. Department of Education has rated this program as Promising.)

  Contact Information: Quest International; phone: (740) 522-6400; Web site: www.lions-quest.org

• Substance Abuse Resources and Disability Issues
  This program provides disability-specific alcohol and other drug prevention and referral services to youth, age 16–20. Services are delivered 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 across sites. Program components include written materials, peer support groups, and family involvement (CSAP has rated this program as Promising.)

  Contact Information: Substance Abuse Resources and Disability Issues, School of Medicine/Wright State University; phone: (937) 259-1384; Web site: www.med.wright.edu/citar/sardi/.

Other effective programs that use communications as one of their strategies include:

• Project PATHE (Positive Action Through Holistic Education)
  Contact Information: Center for Social Organization of Schools, Johns Hopkins University; phone: (410) 516-8808.
  
  
• Parenting Partnership
  Contact Information: National Center on Public Education and Social Policy; phone: (206) 543-6382; Web site: www.ncpe.uri.edu

For more information on these and other effective programs, visit the Northeast CAPT’s Database of Prevention Programs, available at www.hhd.org/capt/default.asp.