NCJ Number
184263
Date Published
1999
Length
21 pages
Annotation
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention announced training and technical assistance for a drug prevention program, with an application deadline of February 1, 1999.
Abstract
The purpose of the program announcement is to develop a drug abuse prevention program that helps reduce risk factors and enhance protective factors among adolescents in middle and junior high school. Training and technical assistance is intended to provide schools and/or local education agencies with program support and implementation materials needed to implement and evaluate replications of a proven effective drug prevention program model that addresses their specific drug abuse reduction needs. The broad goal of the program is to reduce youth drug use by promoting multiple approaches to educating and motivating younger adolescents to make healthy lifestyle decisions. Objectives are to adapt, implement, and monitor the implementation of the Life Skills Training Program; to reduce youth vulnerability to pro-drug social influences; and to decrease risk factors for drug use and associated behaviors by enhancing personal and social competencies and other protective factors among youth. Eligibility requirements for the program announcement are specified, as are selection criteria. Applicants must characterize problems to be solved, goals and objectives, implementation design, management and organizational capability, and budget. Other administrative requirements of the program announcement are briefly described. An appendix contains a description of the Life Skills Training Program. 20 references