Interventions and outcomes included successful prevention or decreased use of one or many substances including alcohol, tobacco, cannabis or other drugs.
The Prosper Program Initiative Description: The PROSPER program creates local community teams that have the central goal of implementing evidence-based programs intended to support positive youth development and reduce early substance use as well as building the community’s broader capacity to provide prevention services. Study Results: Parents’ involvement in school, as reported by the adolescent […]
Initiative Description: Study participants were randomly assigned to one of three groups, with one group receiving the sport consultation (Sport), a second the sport consultation plus an alcohol consultation (Sport Plus), and a third a sport consultation, alcohol consultation, and mailed parent print materials (Sport Plus Parent). The Consultation Protocol, administered by a nurse, consisted […]
Family Check-Up Program Initiative Description: Long-term effects of offering Family Check-up (FCU) at multiple time points in secondary education on the progression of substance use from age 11 to 23 years. The first level of the program, a universal intervention, established a family resource center in each of the three participating public middle schools. The […]
Initiative Description: Adolescents and their parents (N = 259) were randomly assigned to receive either a 2-session adolescent only (BI-A) or a 2-session adolescent and additional parent session (BI-AP). Intervention sessions with the student were typically conducted in the school at the end of the school day. Each brief intervention consists of 60-minute individual sessions […]
Initiative Description: Study identified the most effective components of school-based policies influencing cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption among adolescents. Study Results: Among the school-level policy measures, parental participation in health promotion intervention programs was repeatedly associated with lower rates of risk behaviors, over and above student characteristics. Reference: Tesler, R., Harel-Fisch, Y., & Baron-Epel, O. […]
Life Skills Training Program Initiative Description: Life Skills Training program implemented in three schools in Spain for 485 pupils aged 12 – 14 years and their respective parents.This program consisted of five 90-minute sessions, weekly. The main objective of the present study was toanalyse whether family factors and organisationalaspects of school are related to parents’ […]
Positive Action Initiative Description: Positive Action (PA) is an SEL program for elementary-, middle-, and high-school students. Each grade level has a PA Kit with about 140 lessons that take about 15 min to complete. The philosophy behind PA is that youth feel good when they engage in positive actions, thus, the program attempts to […]
The Coping Power Program https://www.blueprintsprograms.org/factsheet/coping-power Initiative Description: This study explored whether a classroom intervention directed at teachers and at all of the parents in the intervention classrooms enhanced the effects of the Coping Power program with at-risk children. Coping Power consists of two components (Parent Focus and Child Focus) designed to impact four variables that […]
The Positive Action Program https://www.positiveaction.net Initative Description: The Positive Action program which consists of weekly/twice weekly 15 minutes lessons focused on self-concept, positive actions for one’s mind and body, managing oneself responsibly, getting along with others, being honest with oneself and others, improving oneself continuously result in significantly better academic behavior and less substance use, […]
Initiative Description: The social development curriculum (SDC), which is aimed at managing situations in which high-risk behavior occurs, reduced rates of violent behavior, provoking behavior, school delinquency, drug use, and recent sexual intercourse while increasing the rate of condom use in a sample of inner-city African American boys. Study Results: The school/community intervention (SCI) that […]
