Project BUILD
Project BUILD – This program comprises a violence prevention curriculum, which is designed to assist youth in detention to overcome obstacles such as gangs, violence, crime, and substance abuse. The program is rated Effective.
Familias Unidas
Familias Unidas – This is a family-based intervention for Hispanic families that seeks to improve family functioning and decrease adolescent substance use. The program is rated Effective. Treatment group families reported a statistically significant reduction in youth substance use, compared with control group families.
Universal School-Based Prevention and Intervention Programs for Aggressive and Disruptive Behavior
Universal School-Based Prevention and Intervention Programs for Aggressive and Disruptive Behavior – Universal school-based prevention and intervention programs for aggressive and disruptive behavior target elementary, middle, and high school students in a universal setting, rather than focusing on only a select group of students, with the intention of preventing or reducing violent, […]
Too Good for Violence
Too Good for Violence – This is a school-based violence prevention and character education program designed to improve student behavior and minimize aggression. The program is rated Promising. The program had statistically significant positive effects on risk and protective factors related to student violence for students in grade 3. There were also […]
The Peacemakers Program
The Peacemakers Program – This is a school-based intervention designed to reduce violence and improve interpersonal behavior in youth. The program is rated Promising. Participants showed a statistically significant positive effect knowledge of psychosocial skills and fewer self-reported and teacher-reported behavior problems, disciplinary incidents, conflict mediation referrals, and suspensions, compared with the […]
The Leadership Program’s Violence Prevention Project
The Leadership Program’s Violence Prevention Project – This is a school-based prevention program for students between the ages of 12 and 16, which is designed to increase peer support, improve conflict-resolution skills, and decrease acceptance attitudes toward aggression and violence. The program is rated Promising. Treatment group students reported a statistically significantly […]
Teaching Students to Be Peacemakers
Teaching Students to Be Peacemakers – This is a school-based, conflict resolution program designed to teach students how to manage conflicts constructively. The program is rated Promising. Participants showed a statistically significant greater likelihood of using constructive strategies, such as negotiating, and lower likelihood of using detrimental strategies, compared with the control […]
Targeted School-Based Social Information-Processing Interventions for Aggression
Targeted School-Based Social Information-Processing Interventions for Aggression – This practice examines targeted prevention efforts for particular students that attempt to improve one or more aspects of the students’ social information processing, aiming to prevent and/or reduce aggressive or violent behavior in school-aged children. The practice is rated Effective for reducing aggressive behavior […]
Success for All (SFA)
Success for All (SFA) – This is a schoolwide, intensive educational intervention to detect and resolve literacy problems for school children in preschool through sixth grade who are mostly in high-poverty schools. The program is rated Effective. Letter-Word recognition, Word Attack scores, and oral reading results were statistically significant for grades across […]
Strong African American Families (SAAF)
Strong African American Families (SAAF) – This is a parental training and family therapy program targeted at rural African American families designed to reduce youths’ substance use and sexual activity. The program is rated Effective. SAAF group youth showed a statistically significantly less increase of alcohol use and lower levels of alcohol […]