NCJ Number
153431
Editor(s)
S E Gardner,
P F Green,
C Marcus
Date Published
1994
Length
101 pages
Annotation
This report describes promising drug prevention strategies implemented in communities throughout the United States by recipients of High-Risk Youth Demonstration grants from the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP).
Abstract
These programs emphasize alcohol and other drug use as a health problem influenced by risk factors in five areas: individual, family, school, peer group, and community. In each area, specific risk factors were identified, along with appropriate intervention strategies. Each project exemplifies a particular approach or strategy, has been well implemented, and has been operating long enough to have an experience base that can be a resource to others. Projects focused on individual risk factors involve social and life skills training, alternative activities, individual or group counseling, and tutoring and homework support. Family-focused projects entail family therapy, family skills training, play therapy, parent training programs, and parent involvement programs. School-based programs include teaching reform and cooperative learning, school policies, educational planning, the use of an advocate to enhance school bonding, and projects focused on the school and community environment. Projects focuses on peer groups focus on clubs, correcting perceptions of norms, peer resistance training programs, positive peer models, and peer leadership and counseling interventions. Projects focusing on community risk factors include cultural enhancement programs, community service activities, media education, and safe havens. Program profiles, lists of related CSAP publications, program and program strategies indexes, and appended charts and contact information