• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

  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, available at http://www.hhd.org/capt/default.asp.