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ATLAS (Athletes Training
and Learning to Avoid Steroids)
ATLAS is a drug prevention and health promotion program
designed to reduce the use of anabolic steroids and other
drugs in male high school athletes. The program consists
of seven weekly, 50-minute class sessions delivered by
coaches and student team leaders and 7-8 weight room sessions.
Topics include sports nutrition and strength training
alternatives to athletic enhancing substances and other
drugs.
Behavioral Monitoring
and Reinforcement Program
The Behavioral Monitoring and Reinforcement Program, formerly
Prevention Intervention, targets at-risk adolescents to
prevent delinquency, substance use, and school failure.
Project staff and teachers monitor students’ school
performance, inform parents of their children’s
progress, and reward participants for school attendance
and prosocial behaviors.
Brief Strategic
Family Therapy (BSFT)
BSFT is a short-term, problem-focused family therapy
intervention to improve youth’s behavior problems
by improving family interactions that are presumed
to be directly related to the child’s symptoms.
BSFT targets Hispanic families with children between
the ages of 8-17.
CASASTART (Striving
Together to Achieve Rewarding Tomorrows)
CASASTART, formerly the Children at Risk (CAR) program,
is a community-based program that targets youth in high
risk environments and seeks to reduce their exposure
to drugs and criminal activity by providing case management
services, after-school and summer activities, increased
police involvement, family and education services, and
mentoring.
FAST (Families and
Schools Together) Track Program
FAST Track is a comprehensive, six year school-based
program that reduces children’s anti-social
behavior. Its components include parent training,
home visitation, social skills training, academic
tutoring, and a multidimensional
elementary school curriculum.
Good Behavior Game
The Good Behavior Game is a universal intervention for
early elementary students. It is based upon behavior
modification tactics that reduce aggressive and shy-aggressive
classroom behaviors. It is a team-based program, in
which students are divided into groups and are rewarded
if all members of the team display prosocial acts and
avoid maladaptive behaviors.
Guiding Good Choices
(GGC)
This family competency training program, formerly known
as Preparing for the Drug-Free Years, promotes healthy
and protective parent-child interactions and reduces
adolescent initiation into alcohol and drug use. Parents
learn to manage anger, reduce family conflict, set appropriate
guidelines regarding children’s substance use,
and provide effective discipline practices, and children
are trained in peer resistance skills.
I Can Problem Solve
(ICPS)
This universal, school-based curriculum enhances children’s
problem-solving skills and peer relationships by teaching
participants evaluate conflict situations and the feelings
and motives that created them, develop alternative solutions,
and consider the consequences of their behavior.
Linking the Interests
of Families and Teachers (LIFT)
LIFT is a school-based intervention for first and fifth
graders and their families. LIFT aims to decrease antisocial
behavior and involvement with delinquent peers by providing
classroom-based child social and problem skills training,
playground-based behavior modification, and group-delivered
parent training.
Perry Preschool Project
The Perry Preschool Project provides disadvantaged
children with two years of high-quality early education.
Its success in decreasing delinquency and improving
later life experiences lies in the following key components:
small classroom size, trained staff who provide close
supervision and encourage parent involvement, and sensitivity
to children’s non-educational needs.
Preventive Treatment
Program
This program focuses on youth who display early, problem
behavior. Parents are taught to monitor children’s
behavior, provide positive reinforcement, use effective
discipline, and manage family crises, while children
practice self-control and model prosocial behaviors.
Project ALERT (Adolescent
Learning Experiences in Resistance Training)
Project ALERT is a drug use primary prevention program
targeting alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana use in middle/junior
school. It is based on a social influence model and
helps students develop reasons not to use drugs, identify
pressures to use them, counter pro-drug messages, learn
how to say no to external and internal pressures, understand
that most people do not use drugs, and recognize the
benefits of resistance.
Project Northland
Project Northland allows students, teachers, parents,
and community members to collaborate in preventing adolescent
alcohol use. Its intervention strategies include a school
curriculum, parent involvement, a
community task force, and a peer participant program.
School Transitional
Environmental Program (STEP)
The STEP program seeks to make transitions between schools
less stressful. Incoming students are assigned to homerooms
where teachers provide extra guidance and increased
communication with parents, and participants are enrolled
in a core group of classes with the same students to
foster stable peer groups and reduce social isolation.
SOAR (Skills, Opportunities,
and Recognition)
This universal intervention, formerly the Seattle Social
Development Project, provides on-going training for
students, teachers, and parents to increase children’s
prosocial bonds and decrease delinquency. Instructors
improve their classroom management and interactive teaching
skills; students learn communication, decision-making,
and conflict resolution techniques; and parents are
encouraged to improve their discipline and supervision
strategies and increase their communication with teachers.
Strengthening Families
Program for Parents and Youth 10-14
This universal, family-based program, formerly the Iowa
Strengthening Families Program, enhances parents’
general management skills, parent-child affective relationships,
and family communication. By increasing these protective
family processes and strengthening children’s
peer resistance and refusal techniques, the intervention
delays the onset of adolescent alcohol and substance
use.
Strong African American Families (SAAF) Program
Modeled after the Strengthening Families Program For Parents and Youth 10-14, this family-centered program for rural African American youth, ages 10-12, and their primary caregivers was designed to prevent adolescent alcohol use and abuse and improve parenting practices.
