- 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.
- 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.
- Faith Based Prevention (formerly
Jackson County Alcohol Partnership)
The Faith Based Prevention Model is
a community coalition that facilitates alcohol and other
drug abuse prevention and education activities. As part
of the Partnership Prevention Program, six rural churches
develop, implement, and evaluate drug prevention programs
for their respective church communities. (CSAP has
rated this program as Promising.)
Contact Information: Mary Sutherland,
Health Promotion Program Initiative; phone: (850) 385-1205.
- 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; e-mail: Laura.Yager@co.fairfax.va-us.
- Lion's-Quest Working Toward Peace
This school-based, comprehensive program brings together school, family, peers,
community, and the media to teach and reinforce anger and conflict management
skills. The major goals of the program are to help students understand
the value of peaceful conflict resolution, identify peaceful role models,
and manage anger and resolve conflicts peacefully. (The U.S. Department
of Education has rated this program as Promising.)
Contact Information: Quest International;
phone: (740) 522-6400; Web site: www.lions-quest.org
- Substance Abuse Resources and Disability
Issues
This program provides disability-specific alcohol and other drug prevention
and referral services to youth, age 16–20. Services are delivered at
sites including hospitals, independent living centers, rehabilitation facilities,
disability-specific agencies, and higher education institutions. A multi-agency,
collaborative model is used to transfer information across sites. Program components
include written materials, peer support groups, and family involvement (CSAP
has rated this program as Promising.)
Contact Information: Substance
Abuse Resources and Disability Issues, School of Medicine/Wright
State University; phone: (937) 259-1384; Web site: www.med.wright.edu/citar/sardi/.
Other effective programs that use communications
as one of their strategies include:
- Project PATHE (Positive Action Through
Holistic Education)
Contact Information: Center for Social Organization of Schools, Johns Hopkins
University; phone: (410) 516-8808.
- Parenting Partnership
Contact Information: National Center on Public Education and Social Policy;
phone: (206) 543-6382; Web site: www.ncpe.uri.edu
For more information on these and other effective
programs, visit the Northeast CAPT’s Database of Prevention
Programs, available at www.hhd.org/capt/default.asp.
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