NCJ Number
179710
Date Published
1999
Length
0 pages
Annotation
This video reviews strategies and services to help youth stay drug-free.
Abstract
This teleconference involved professionals representing national and local organizations involved in efforts to keep youth drug-free. The panel members reviewed science-based programs at local, State and Federal levels. A video reviewed programs that attempt to identify risk factors and protective factors and their interaction in the lives of young people. One of the programs featured a framework divided into six life domains that present challenges and opportunities to young people to decide to stay away from drugs: individual, peer, family, school, community, and society. The teleconference focused on individuals and groups of young people, and included a group of young people discussing why they had decided to stay away from drugs. Other discussions featured youth's perception of risk in the areas of their health, legal repercussions of drug use, effects on their schoolwork, their parents' reactions, peers' views, and the effects on their future. Panelists discussed programs to help youth develop skills to stay away from drugs. They also reviewed gender-specific programs, urban vs. rural programs and programs that begin with pre-schoolers and their parents. The second part of the teleconference featured questions from callers across the country.