• 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.

• 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.

  Contact Information: Detailed information about this program is currently unavailable. For further inquiries, please contact CSAP's National Registry of Effective Prevention Programs and Practices (NREPP); e-mail: modprog@samhsa.gov; phone: (877) 773-8546; Web site: http://modelprograms.samhsa.gov/pdfs/model/Community%20Trials.pdf

• 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.

• 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 policy as one of their strategies include:

• 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.