I-1

Build social and personal skills.

I-2

Design culturally-sensitive interventions.

I-3

Cite immediate consequences.

I-4

Combine information dissemination and media campaigns with other interventions.

I-5

Provide positive alternatives to help youth in high-risk environments develop personal and social skills in a natural and effective way.

I-6

Recognize that relationships exist between substance use and a variety of other adolescent health problems.

I-7

Incorporate problem identification and referral into prevention programs.

I-8

Provide transportation to prevention programs.

F-1

Target the entire family.

F-2

Help develop bonds among parents in programs; provide meals, transportation, and small gifts; sponsor family outings; and ensure cultural sensitivity.

F-3

Help minority families respond to cultural and racial issues.

F-4

Develop parenting skills.

F-5

Emphasize family bonding.

F-6

Offer sessions where parents and youth learn and practice skills.

F-7

Train parents to both listen and interact.

F-8

Train parents to use positive and consistent discipline techniques.

F-9

Promote new skills in family communication through interactive techniques.

F-10

Employ strategies to overcome parental resistance to family-based programs.

F-11

Improve parenting skills and child behavior with intensive support.

F-12

Improve family functioning through family therapy when indicated.

F-13

Explore alternative community sponsors and sites for schools.

F-14

Videotape training and education.

P-1

Structure alternative activities and supervise alternative events.

P-2

Incorporate social and personal skills-building opportunities.

P-3

Design intensive alternative programs that include a variety of approaches and substantial time commitment.

P-4

Communicate peer norms against use of alcohol and illicit drugs.

P-5

Involve youth in the development of alternative programs.

P-6

Involve youth in peer-led interventions or interventions with peer-led components.

P-7

Counter the effects of deviant norms and behaviors by creating an environment for youth with behavior problems to interact with other nonproblematic youth.

S-1

Avoid relying solely on knowledge-oriented interventions designed to supply information about negative consequences.

S-2

Correct misconceptions about the prevalence of use in conjunction with other education approaches.

S-3

Involve youth in peer-led interventions or interventions with peer-led components.

S-4

Give students opportunities to practice newly acquired skills through interactive approaches.

S-5

Help youth retain skills through booster sessions.

S-6

Involve parents in school-based approaches.

S-7

Communicate a commitment to substance abuse prevention in school policies.

C-1

Develop integrated, comprehensive prevention strategies rather than one-time community-based events.

C-2

Control the environment around schools and other areas where youth gather.

C-3

Provide structured time with adults through mentoring.

C-4

Increase positive attitudes through community service.

C-5

Achieve greater results with highly involved mentors.

C-6

Emphasize the costs to employers of workers’ substance use and abuse.

C-7

Communicate a clear company policy on substance abuse.

C-8

Include representatives from every organization that plays a role in fulfilling coalition objectives.

C-9

Retain active coalition members by providing meaningful rewards.

C-10

Define specific goals and assign specific responsibility for their achievement to subcommittees and task forces.

C-11

Ensure planning and clear understanding for coalition effectiveness.

C-12

Set outcome-based objectives.

C-13

Support a large number of prevention activities.

C-14

Organize at the neighborhood level.

C-15

Assess progress from an outcome-based perspective and make adjustments to the plan of action to meet goals.

C-16

Involve paid coalition staff as resource providers and facilitators rather than as direct community organizers.

S/E-1

Develop community awareness and media efforts.

S/E-2

Use mass media appropriately.

S/E-3

Provide structured time with adults through mentoring.

S/E-4

Avoid the use of authority figures.

S/E-5

Broadcast messages frequently over an extended period of time.

S/E-6

Broadcast messages through multiple channels when the target audience is likely to be viewing or listening.

S/E-7

Disseminate information about the hazards of a product or industry that promotes it.

S/E-8

Promote replacement of more conspicuous labels.

S/E-9

Promote restrictions on tobacco use in public places and private workplaces.

S/E-10

Promote clean indoor air laws.

S/E-11

Combine beverage server training with law enforcement.

S/E-12

Combine beverage servers’ legal liability.

S/E-13

Increase the price of alcohol and tobacco through excise taxes.

S/E-14

Increase minimum purchase age for alcohol to 21.

S/E-15

Limit the location and density of retail alcohol outlets.

S/E-16

Employ neighborhood antidrug strategies.

S/E-17

Enforce minimum purchase age laws using undercover buying operations.

S/E-18

Use community groups to provide positive and negative feedback to merchants.

S/E-19

Employ more frequent enforcement operations.

S/E-20

Implement “use and lose” laws.

S/E-21

Enact deterrence laws and policies for impaired driving.

S/E-22

Enforce impaired-driving laws.

S/E-23

Combine sobriety checkpoints with positive passive breath sensors.

S/E-24

Revoke licenses for impaired driving.

S/E-25

Immobilize or impound the vehicles of those convicted of impaired driving.

S/E-26

Target underage drivers.