KEEP SAFE – This was a multicomponent intervention to prevent delinquency and substance misuse for girls in foster care transitioning from elementary school to middle school. The program is rated Promising. Treatment group girls reported statistically significantly reduced tobacco use, marijuana use, and delinquent behavior, compared with control group girls.
Youth Advocate Programs, Inc. (YAP) – This is an intervention designed to prevent future criminal activity among system-involved youth through using short-term, high-intensity relationships with paid mentors, referred to as Advocates. The program is rated Promising. Program participants showed statistically significant improvement in educational engagement and reductions in serious dispositions, compared with a comparison […]
Better Futures – This is a program designed to help young people in foster care and with serious mental health challenges prepare for postsecondary education. The program is rated Effective. Youths who received the intervention had statistically significant improvements on self-determination, mental health empowerment, transition planning, career self-efficacy, hope, barriers to education, postsecondary preparation, […]
Operation New Hope – This is a curriculum-based aftercare program designed to assist chronic, high-risk juvenile offenders in their reintegration to the community after they are released from secure confinement. The program is rated Promising. Participants in the treatment group had a statistically significant lower number of rearrests and revocations and lower likelihood of […]
E-mentoring Program for Secondary Students with Learning Disabilities – This program was designed to help high school students with mild learning disabilities improve their ability to identify postsecondary career goals. This program is rated Promising. The program group showed statistically significant improvement in social connectedness, transition competency, and self-determination, compared with the control group.
Check & Connect Plus Truancy Board (C&C+TB) – This is a school-based program that integrates a case-management framework for providing social support to truant youth. The goals of the program are to improve school attendance and renew progress toward graduation. This program is rated Promising.
Achievement Mentoring Program (AMP) – This is an intervention for urban minority freshmen at risk of dropping out of high school. The goal was to enhance school-related cognition and behaviors. The program is rated Promising.
Youth-Nominated Support Team-Version II (YST-II) – This program was designed to provide adult support to suicidal youth following psychiatric care. The program is rated Promising. Program participants showed statistically significant improvements on mortality, suicide and drug-related deaths, outpatient psychotherapy sessions, medication follow-up sessions, and outpatient drug or alcohol treatment.
Targeted Truancy Interventions – These interventions are designed to increase attendance for elementary and secondary school students with chronic attendance problems. The practice is rated Effective for improving attendance.
Sources of Strength – This is a school-based, suicide prevention program designed to build socioecological-protective influences across a full student population, using youth opinion leaders from diverse social cliques to develop and deliver messaging aimed at changing the norms and behaviors of their peers. This program is rated Promising. Peer leaders in […]
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