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 Matching Risk Factors: Matching Protective Factors:

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 Matching Risk Factors: Matching Protective Factors:

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 Matching Risk Factors: Matching Protective Factors:

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 Matching Risk Factors: Matching Protective Factors:

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 Matching Risk Factors: Matching Protective Factors:

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 Matching Risk Factors: Matching Protective Factors:

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 Matching Risk Factors: Matching Protective Factors:

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 Matching Risk Factors: Matching Protective Factors:

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 Matching Risk Factors: Matching Protective Factors:

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 Matching Risk Factors: Matching Protective Factors:

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 Matching Risk Factors: Matching Protective Factors:

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 Matching Risk Factors: Matching Protective Factors:

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 Matching Risk Factors: Matching Protective Factors:

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 Matching Risk Factors: Matching Protective Factors:

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 Matching Risk Factors: Matching Protective Factors:

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 Matching Risk Factors: Matching Protective Factors:

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 Matching Risk Factors: Matching Protective Factors:

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 Matching Risk Factors: Matching Protective Factors:

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 Matching Risk Factors: Matching Protective Factors:

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 Matching Risk Factors: Matching Protective Factors:

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 Matching Risk Factors: Matching Protective Factors:

Title: Families in Action

The Families in Action (FIA) program is a family-based alcohol-, tobacco-, and other drug abuse–prevention program that targets families with children entering middle (or junior high) school. The program was developed to provide y... Program Type: Family Therapy, Program Rating: Effective Matching Risk Factors: Matching Protective Factors:

Title: First Step to Success

First Step to Success is an early intervention program designed to prevent antisocial behavior in school. The primary goal of the program is to divert antisocial kindergartners from an antisocial behavior pattern during their subs... Program Type: School/Classroom Environment,Parent Training,Cognitive Behavioral Treatment, Program Rating: Effective Matching Risk Factors: Matching Protective Factors:

Title: Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.)

The Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.) program is intended to provide life skills that empower adolescents with the ability to resist peer pressure to join gangs. The strategy is a cognitive approach that seeks to... Program Type: Gang Prevention, Program Rating: Effective Matching Risk Factors: Matching Protective Factors:

Title: Girls Inc. Friendly PEERsuasion®

Girls Inc. Friendly PEERsuasion® (GIFP) is an interactive prevention program aimed at helping girls in middle school (ages 11–14) acquire knowledge, skills, and support systems to avoid substance abuse. Girls Incorporated develope... Program Type: Leadership and Youth Development, Program Rating: Effective Matching Risk Factors: Matching Protective Factors:

Title: Growing Healthy

Growing Healthy is a comprehensive health education curriculum for elementary school students (kindergarten through sixth grade). The first comprehensive school health education program in the United States, Growing Healthy goes b... Program Type: Program Rating: Effective Matching Risk Factors: Matching Protective Factors:

Title: Hardcore Gang Investigations Unit—Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office

Hardcore Gang Investigations Unit, a prosecutorial gang suppression program formerly known as Operation Hardcore, was created by the Los Angeles (Calif.) District Attorney’s Office in 1979 to improve the prosecution of gang cases.... Program Type: Gang Prevention, Program Rating: Effective Matching Risk Factors: Matching Protective Factors:

Title: HeadOn

HeadOn: Substance Abuse Prevention for Grades 6–8 is a self-guided, interactive program that delivers substance abuse prevention science to middle school–aged adolescents by means of computer-based educational technologies that ef... Program Type: Drug, Alcohol Therapy/Education, Program Rating: Effective Matching Risk Factors: Matching Protective Factors:

Title: Healthy Families America

Healthy Families America is a voluntary home visitation program designed to promote healthy families and children through a variety of services, including child development, access to health care, and parent education. The program... Program Type: Parent Training, Program Rating: Effective Matching Risk Factors: Matching Protective Factors:

Title: I Can Problem Solve