88 PREVENTION
PROGRAMS BASED ON
SCIENTIFICALLY BASED RESEARCH: 
THE LISTS

No Child Left Behind - Title IVA

Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities

Iowa Department of Education

Spring, 2003

 

Compiled by

Carol Johnson, Prevention Specialist

Loess Hills AEA 13

 
 

 

 

 


PROGRAMS BASED ON SCIENTIFICALLY BASED RESEARCH:  THE LISTS

 

 

Name

Cost

Avail-able?

Description

Target Group

Type

List

 

Y

N

 

Preschool

Elementary

Middle School

High School

Families

Violence

Alcohol

Drugs

Tobacco

Comprehensive  Behavior

USDE

CSAP

Western CAPT

NIDA

Blueprints

1.      Across Ages

Dr. Andrea Taylor, Project Director

Center for Intergenerational Learning,

Temple University

1601 N. Broad St., USB 206

Philadelphia, PA 19122

(215) 204.6708

andreat46@aol.com

¬$1000 plus expenses for training

¬$500 per day onsite Technical Assistance

¬$1500 to $2000 per child  Annual Implementation

X

 

Across Ages is a drug prevention project for middle school students comprised of four components: 1) recruiting and training older adults (+55) and matching them as mentors for 6th grade youth; 2) engaging youth in community service activities; 3) implementing a classroom-based life skills curriculum; and 4) providing activities for family members for the targeted youth.

 

 

x

 

 

 

 

x

 

 

 

M

BP

 

 

 

2.      Adolescent Alcohol Prevention Trial (AAPT)

William B. Hansen Ph.D.

Tanglewood Research, Inc.

PO Box 1772

Clemmons, NC 27012

800.826.4539

www.tanglewood.net

donaldss@cgu.edu

Research Project/ Program Materials Not Available.

 

See All Stars

 

X

AAPT is a substance abuse prevention curriculum designed to address the risk factors of favorable attitudes toward the problem behavior and early initiation of the problem behavior.

 

 

x

 

 

 

x

x

x

 

 

PP

BP

E

 

 

3.      Adolescent Transitions Program

Training and Technical Assistance

Kathryn Kavanagh, Ph.D.

Project Alliance

2738 NE Broadway

Portland, OR 97232

Katek@darkwing.uoregon.edu

503.282.3662

For information about the program and costs, contact the address listed.  ATP training information at http://cfc.uoregon.edu

X

 

ATP is a school-based program that focuses on parenting practices and integrates the universal (directed to the parents of all students), selective (The family check-up, offers family assessment and professional support), and indicated (provides direct professional support to parents for making the changes), approaches for interventions within a comprehensive framework.

 

 

x

 

 

 

 

 

 

x

 

 

BP

E

 

 

Key:

M = Model Program     E = Exemplary Program     PP = Promising Program     BP = Best Practice


 

Name

Cost

Avail-able?

Description

Target Group

Type

List

 

Y

N

Preschool

Elementary

Middle School

High School

Families

Violence

Alcohol

Drugs

Tobacco

Comprehensive  Behavior

USDE

CSAP

Western CAPT

NIDA

Blueprints

4.      Aggression Replacement Therapy

Arnold P. Goldstein

Director of Center for Research on Aggression

Syracuse University

805 South Crouse Avenue

Syracuse, NY 13244

315.443.9641

¬$24- Aggression Replacement Training Book

¬$5000 plus expenses for 2-day workshop training

¬$7000 for train the trainer

X

 

ART is an intervention designed for aggressive adolescents and children.  Its component procedures are:  skill streaming; which teaches a curriculum of prosocial and interpersonal skills, Anger Control Training; to teach youth what not to do if provoked, Moral Reasoning Training, to promote values that respect the rights of others, and help youths want to use the interpersonal and anger management skills taught.

 

 

X

X

 

 

 

 

 

x

PP

 

 

 

 

 

5.      Aggressors, Victims, & Bystanders:  Thinking and Acting to Prevent Violence

Education Development Center, Inc.

55 Chapel Street

Newton, MA  02458-1060

800.225.4276

www.edc.org

 

¬$59.95 for materials, includes lesson plans, reproducible student handouts, and transparen-cies

 

X

 

The curriculum is composed of 12 classroom sessions that deal with violence among peers as well as the separate but interrelated roles of aggressors, victims, and bystanders that youth play in potentially violent situations.  The backbone of this curriculum is the four-step Think First Model of Conflict Resolution.  The model helps students pause and keep cool, understand what is going on before jumping to conclusions, define their problems and goals in ways that will not lead to fights, and generate positive solutions.

 

 

x

 

 

x

 

 

 

x

PP

 

 

 

 

 

6.      Al’s Pals:  Kid’s Making Healthy Choices

Susan R. Geller

President

Wingspan, LLC

PO Box 29070

Richmond, VA 23242

(804) 754.0100

¬$1095 / classroom, for training &  curriculum kit

¬$845/ classroom with one teacher

¬Training for 30 participants

X

 

Al’s Pals offers s systematic approach to teach children social and emotional skills.  When Al talks Children listen and learn to: express feelings, care about others, make and keep friends, stop and think, gain self-control, accept differences, solve problems peacefully, use kind words, keep themselves safe and healthy, and understand that tobacco, alcohol and other drugs are not for children.  A 46-lesson interactive curriculum delivered by train classroom teacher.

x

x

 

 

 

x

x

x

x

x

PP

E