• 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.

• 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.

  Contact Information: Tanglewood Research, Incorporated; phone: (800) 826-4539; Web site: www.allstarsprevention.com.

• 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.

  Contact Information: Division of Health Promotion and Sports Medicine at Oregon Health Sciences University; phone: (503) 494-8051; Web site: www.ohsu.edu/hpsm/atlas.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.

  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.

• 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.

  Contact Information: Developmental Studies Center; phone: (800) 666-7270, ext. 239; Web site: www.devstu.org/cdp.

• High/Scope Perry Preschool Program
  The High/Scope Perry Preschool Program (High/Scope) utilizes an active learning approach to educating children, imparting skills that will support their development through school and into young adulthood. It provides teachers and caregivers with a blueprint for daily routine, classroom and playground organization, and teacher-child interaction, all designed to create a warm, supportive learning environment. In addition, this learning environment encourages independent thinking, initiative, and creativity.
  
  Contact Information: High/Scope Educational Research Foundation; phone: (734) 485-2000; Web site: www.highscope.org

• 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; 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.

  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.

  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.

  Contact Information: phone: (813) 974-9498; Web site: http://cecp.air.org/resources/success/project_achieve.asp.

• 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.

  Contact Information: Best Foundation; phone: (800) ALERT-10; Web site: www.projectalert.com.

• 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.

  Contact Information: School of Public Health, University of Minnesota; phone: (800) 643-5388; Web site: www.hazelden.org/web/public/projectnorthland.page.

• 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.

  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 was 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.

  Contact Information: Stephan G. Hauk, Dissemination Coordinator, Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, University of Southern California; phone: (800) 400-8461.

• 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.

  Contact Information: Psychosocial and Community Health Department,
  University of Washington School of Nursing; phone: (800) 733-6786; Web site: www.son.washington.edu/departments/pch/ry/curriculum.asp.

• 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. (A new version of the project is entitled Raising Healthy Children.)

  Contact Information: Social Development Research Group, University of Washington; phone: (206) 543-7655; Web site: depts.washington.edu/ssdp

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

• 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.thtm.org.
  
  
• Al’s Pals: Kids Making Healthy Choices
  Contact Information: Wingspan, LLC; phone: (804) 754-0100; Web site: wingspanworks.com.
  
  
• Any Baby Can
  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/projects/clubhero.html.
  
  
• Facing History and Ourselves
  Contact Information: Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation, Inc.; phone: (617) 232-1595; Web site: www.facing.org/campus/reslib.nsf.
  
  
• Growing Healthy
  Contact Information: National Center for Health Education; phone:
  (212) 334-9470, ext. 31; Web site: www.nche.org/growinghealthy.htm.
  
  
• I Can Problem Solve
  Contact Information: MCP Hahnemann University, Department of Clinical and Health Psychology; phone: (215) 762-7205; Web site: www.thinkingchild.com/icps.htm.
  
  
• 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.open-circle.org/landing.asp
  
  
• 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.strengtheningfamilies.org.
  
  
• 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: 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.