Title: Across Ages

Across Ages is a research-based mentoring initiative designed to increase the resiliency and protective factors of at-risk youths through a comprehensive intergenerational approach. The basic concept of the program is to pair olde... Program Type: Mentoring, Program Rating: Promising

Title: Adolescent Transitions Program

The Adolescent Transitions Program (ATP) is a multilevel, family-centered intervention targeting children who are at risk for problem behavior or substance use. Designed to address the family dynamics of adolescent problem behavio... Program Type: Parent Training, Program Rating: Effective

Title: Aggression Replacement Training® (ART®)

Aggression Replacement Training® (ART®) is a multimodal psychoeducational intervention designed to alter the behavior of chronically aggressive adolescents and young children. The goal of ART® is to improve social skill competence... Program Type: Program Rating: Effective

Title: Al’s Pals

Al’s Pals: Kids Making Healthy Choices is an early childhood curriculum designed to increase the protective factor of social and emotional competence in young children and to decrease the risk factor of early and persistent aggres... Program Type: Leadership and Youth Development, Program Rating: Effective

Title: Alcohol Misuse Prevention Study

Alcohol Misuse and Prevention—a curriculum-based program for 10- to 18-year-olds—uses a well-developed, normative curriculum based on social learning theory. The curriculum emphasizes resistance training, knowledge of immediate ef... Program Type: Drug, Alcohol Therapy/Education,Classroom Curricula, Program Rating: Effective

Title: All Children Excel

All Children Excel (or ACE) offers a sustained, intensive, and multifaceted intervention that identifies and treats high-risk children and their families. It incorporates integrated services across government units and promotes co... Program Type: Wraparound / Case Management,Family Therapy, Program Rating: Promising

Title: All Stars™

All Stars™ is a character-based approach to preventing high-risk behaviors such as substance use, violence, and premature sexual activity in teens ages 11 to 15. The program is based on strong research identifying the critical fac... Program Type: Program Rating: Promising

Title: American Indian Life Skills Development

The American Indian Life Skills Development curriculum is a school-based, culturally tailored, suicide-prevention curriculum for American Indian adolescents. Tailored to American Indian norms, values, beliefs, and attitudes, the c... Program Type: Leadership and Youth Development,Cognitive Behavioral Treatment,Classroom Curricula, Program Rating: Effective

Title: Athletes Training and Learning to Avoid Steroids (ATLAS)

Athletes Training and Learning to Avoid Steroids (ATLAS) is a multicomponent school-based drug and alcohol prevention program for male high school athletes, 13 to 19 years old, designed to reduce or stop adolescent male athletes’... Program Type: School/Classroom Environment,Leadership and Youth Development,Classroom Curricula, Program Rating: Exemplary

Title: Be a Star

The Be a Star program was developed to help preadolescents gain the knowledge and skills necessary to resist drugs. It built on the afterschool activities already in place at the United Church Neighborhood Houses. The UCNH serves... Program Type: Classroom Curricula,Drug, Alcohol Therapy/Education,Afterschool/Recreation,Conflict Resolution / Interpersonal Skills, Program Rating: Promising

Title: Bicultural Competence Skills Approach

The Bicultural Competence Skills Approach is an intervention designed to prevent the abuse of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs by Native American adolescents by teaching them social skills in a way that blends the adaptive values... Program Type: Cognitive Behavioral Treatment, Program Rating: Effective

Title: Big Brothers Big Sisters

Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) is a federation of more than 420 agencies that serve children and adolescents. The basic concept of the BBBS program is not to ameliorate specific problems, but to provide support in all aspects of... Program Type: Mentoring, Program Rating: Exemplary

Title: Bigs in Schools

The Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) Bigs in Schools (BIGS) is a one-to-one mentoring program that takes place in a school setting. The goal of virtually all mentoring programs is to support the development of healthy youth by addr... Program Type: Program Rating: Effective

Title: Boys and Girls Club Gang Prevention Through Targeted Outreach

The overall philosophy of the program is to give at-risk youths ages 6 to 18 what they seek through gang membership (supportive adults, challenging activities, and a place to belong) in an alternative, socially positive format. Th... Program Type: Gang Prevention, Program Rating: Promising

Title: Boys and Girls Club Project Learn

The Boys and Girls Club of America (BGCA) promotes health, social skills development, education, character building, and leadership in youths, especially those at risk. BGCA succeeds in this goal by offering a wide variety of prog... Program Type: Academic Skills Enhancement, Program Rating: Effective

Title: Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention of College Students (BASICS)

BASICS—Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention of College Students: A Harm Reduction Approach—is a preventive intervention for college students 18 to 24 years old. It is aimed at students who drink alcohol heavily and have experi... Program Type: Drug, Alcohol Therapy/Education, Program Rating: Exemplary

Title: Brief Strategic Family Therapy

Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT) is a family-based intervention designed to prevent and treat child and adolescent behavior problems. BSFT targets children and adolescents who are displaying—or are at risk for developing—beha... Program Type: Family Therapy, Program Rating: Effective

Title: Broader Urban Involvement and Leadership Development Program (BUILD)

Chicago, Ill.’s BUILD (for Broader Urban Involvement and Leadership Development) program combines several popular gang prevention strategies in an ambitious attempt to curb gang violence in some of the city’s most depressed and cr... Program Type: Community Awareness/Mobilization,Classroom Curricula,Afterschool/Recreation,Academic Skills Enhancement,Gang Prevention, Program Rating: Promising

Title: Career Academy

Career Academies are schools within schools that link students with peers, teachers, and community partners in a disciplined environment, fostering academic success and mental and emotional health. Originally created to help inner... Program Type: Alternative School, Program Rating: Effective

Title: Career Beginnings

Career Beginnings was developed to enhance the life options of disadvantaged, urban high school students. The program is a school–community–university partnership that offers a comprehensive package for juniors and seniors with co... Program Type: Academic Skills Enhancement,Mentoring, Program Rating: Effective

Title: Caring School Community Program

The Caring School Community (CSC) program, formerly the Child Development Project, is a research-based elementary school program that builds classroom and school community. It focuses on strengthening students’ connectedness to sc... Program Type: Academic Skills Enhancement, Program Rating: Effective

Title: CASASTART

CASASTART (Striving Together to Achieve Rewarding Tomorrows), formerly known as Children at Risk, is a community-based, school-centered program designed to keep high-risk 8- to 13-year-old youths free of substance abuse and crimin... Program Type: Truancy Prevention,Parent Training,Mentoring,Leadership and Youth Development,Gang Prevention,Family Therapy,Community Awareness/Mobilization,Community and Problem Oriented Policing,Afterschool/Recreation,Academic Skills Enhancement,Wraparound / Case Management, Program Rating: Effective

Title: Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy

The Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy (CAPS) is a community-based policing strategy. It was field-tested in five experimental districts in Chicago, Ill. In each of the districts, patrol officers were divided on a rotating basi... Program Type: Community and Problem Oriented Policing, Program Rating: Effective

Title: Child–Parent Center

The Child–Parent Center (CPC) program is a community-based intervention that provides comprehensive educational and family support services to economically and educationally disadvantaged children. The program theory argues that a... Program Type: Academic Skills Enhancement, Program Rating: Effective

Title: Children in the Middle

Children in the Middle is a skills-based program that helps children and parents deal with the children’s reactions to divorce. The program is built around a 37-minute video for parents and a 30-minute video for children. The pare... Program Type: Family Therapy, Program Rating: Promising

Title: Children of Divorce Intervention Program (CODIP)

The Children of Divorce Intervention Program (CODIP) is a supportive, small-group preventive intervention designed to reduce the stress of family transitions and foster children’s resilience and healthy adjustment to changes in fa... Program Type: Leadership and Youth Development,Conflict Resolution / Interpersonal Skills,Classroom Curricula, Program Rating: Effective

Title: Chronic Truancy Initiative

The Chronic Truancy Initiative (formerly the Elementary Absenteeism Initiative) was developed as a result of a citizen evaluation of community problems and needs in a Weed and Seed target area in a midwestern urban community. Resi... Program Type: Truancy Prevention, Program Rating: Promising

Title: Club HERO (Helping Everyone Reach Out)

Created and sponsored by National Families in Action located in Atlanta, Ga., Club HERO (Helping Everyone Reach Out) is a multicomponent afterschool program designed to prevent youths’ drug use; increase knowledge about the harmfu... Program Type: School/Classroom Environment,Conflict Resolution / Interpersonal Skills,Community Awareness/Mobilization,Academic Skills Enhancement,Drug, Alcohol Therapy/Education, Program Rating: Promising

Title: Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS)

The Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) program is a cognitive and behavioral therapy group intervention for reducing children’s symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression caused by... Program Type: Cognitive Behavioral Treatment, Program Rating: Exemplary

Title: Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol

Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol (CMCA) is a community-organizing program designed to reduce young (18- to 24-year-old) adults’ access to alcohol by changing community policies and practices. Initiated in 1991, CMCA ha... Program Type: Community Awareness/Mobilization, Program Rating: Effective

Title: Community Trials Intervention to Reduce High-Risk Drinking

Community Trials Intervention to Reduce High-Risk Drinking (RHRD) is a multicomponent, community-based program developed to alter alcohol-use patterns of people of all ages. It addresses underage drinking, acute (binge) drinking,... Program Type: Community and Problem Oriented Policing,Community Awareness/Mobilization, Program Rating: Effective

Title: Comprehensive Gang Model

The Comprehensive, Communitywide Approach to Gang Prevention, Intervention, and Suppression Program (also known as the Comprehensive Gang Strategy, the Comprehensive Gang Model, or the Spergel Model) is based on the assumption tha... Program Type: Gang Prevention, Program Rating: Effective

Title: Consistency Management & Cooperative Discipline®

Consistency Management & Cooperative Discipline® (CMCD) is a research-based classroom and school reform model that emphasizes shared responsibility for learning and classroom organization between teachers and students. The model s... Program Type: School/Classroom Environment, Program Rating: Effective

Title: Coping Power Program

The Coping Power Program is a multicomponent preventive intervention for aggressive children that uses the contextual sociocognitive model as its conceptual framework. The sociocognitive model concentrates on the contextual parent... Program Type: Program Rating: Exemplary

Title: Creating Lasting Family Connections

Creating Lasting Family Connections (CLFC) is a comprehensive family strengthening and substance abuse and violence prevention curriculum designed to help youths and families in high-risk environments become strong, healthy, and s... Program Type: Wraparound / Case Management, Program Rating: Effective

Title: DARE To Be You

DARE To Be You (DTBY) combines three supporting aspects—educational activities for children, strategies for the parents or teachers, and environmental structures—to enable program participants to learn and practice the desired ski... Program Type: Family Therapy, Program Rating: Exemplary

Title: Early Risers ‘Skills for Success’ Program

Early Risers is a multicomponent, high-intensity, competency-enhancement program that targets elementary school children (ages 6 to 10) who are at high risk for early development of conduct problems, including substance use (i.e.,... Program Type: Leadership and Youth Development, Program Rating: Exemplary

Title: East Texas Experiential Learning Center

The goal of the East Texas Experiential Learning Center was to reduce multiple risk factors for the use and abuse of alcohol, tobacco, illegal drugs, and inhalants (ATIDI) among economically disadvantaged seventh graders in Nacogd... Program Type: Wilderness Camp,Leadership and Youth Development,Drug, Alcohol Therapy/Education, Program Rating: Promising

Title: Extended-Service Schools Initiative

The Extended-Service Schools (ESS) Initiative promotes academic and nonacademic development of young people during their out-of-school hours. While the programs differ in organizational structure and management, all ESS programs o... Program Type: Afterschool/Recreation, Program Rating: Promising

Title: Facing History and Ourselves

Facing History and Ourselves (FHAO) is a classroom intervention aimed at creating a more humane and informed citizenry in an increasingly diverse society. It is a professional development program for educators that helps them fost... Program Type: Program Rating: Promising

Title: Families And Schools Together (FAST)

Families And Schools Together (FAST) is a multifamily group intervention program designed to build protective factors for children (ages 4 to 12), to empower parents to be the primary prevention agents for their own children, and... Program Type: Family Therapy, Program Rating: Exemplary

Title: Families in Action

The Families in Action (FIA) program is a family-b