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Best Practices are those strategies, activities, or approaches that have been shown through research and evaluation
to be effective at preventing and/or delaying substance abuse. Guiding principals are recommendations on how to
create effective prevention programs. These can be used to design an innovative program/strategy when none of
the best practices are appropriate to the community's needs.
Here are some publications for you to explore. Some of these list criteria for research-proven prevention programs
and some list or will refer you to actual programs that have upheld the scrutiny of evaluation and research. This is
by no means a complete list. We welcome additional information that you might choose to contribute to this page.
- A Wonderful resource is the Western Regional Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies. Go to their
web site:
www.unr.edu/unr/colleges/educ/captta/westcapt.htm
- America's Promise, Prevention Youth Violence: A Summary of Program Evaluation January, 1997 Arthur Kellermann, Dawna S. Fugua-Whitley, Emory University; Fredrick Rivara, University of Washington.
Contact: Charles Royer to obtain this publication at The Urban Initiative, Seattle Washington (206) 522 - 1592
- Reducing Youth Gun Violence: An Overview of Programs and Initiatives
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, May 1996
For more information, go to their website to inquire further: www.ncjrs.org/ojjhome
- Research-Based Program Models
Center for Prevention Research and Development for Illinois Prevention 2000 July 1998
For more information, contact the Center.
- Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, and What's Promising
Office of Justice Programs, DOJ February 1997
For further information, contact www.usdoj.gov
- Channing Bete Company, "Communities That CareŽ
Prevention Strategies:
A Research
Guide To What Works." Contact Channing Bete Company, South Deerfield,
Massachusetts, at PrevSci@channing-bete.com,
or
1-877-896-8532. For further information, go to www.preventionscience.com.
Drug Abuse Prevention: What Works
National Institute on Drug Abuse, Office of Science Policy and Communications, Public Information Branch, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD. 20857
NIH Publication No. 97-4110 1997
For further information, contact www.nida.nih.gov
Preventing Drug Use Among Children And Adolescents: A Research-Based Guide
National Institute on Drug Abuse March 1997
For further information contact www.nida.nih.gov
Performance Measures of Effectiveness, A System for Assessing the Performance of the National Drug Control Policy
Office of National Drug Control Policy
For further information, contact www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov
Preventing Substance Abuse Among Children And Adolescents: Family-Centered Approaches
Prevention Enhancement Protocols System (PEPS)
Practitioner's Guide
Reference Guide
Center For Substance Abuse Prevention, 1998
For further information, contact www.samsha.gov/csap/index.htm
Prevention: What Works - From Research to Practice: Scientifically-Based
Models of Prevention
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Division of Knowledge Development and Evaluation
For further information, contact www.samsha.gov/csap/index.htm
Secretary's Youth Substance Abuse Prevention Initiative Resource Papers
Regional Technical Assistance Workshop
NCADI, a Service of SAMHSA, P.O. Box 2345, Rockville, MD. 20847
For further information, contact www.health.org
CSAP Technical Report 13: A Review of Alternative Activities Programs in Youth - Oriented Prevention 1996
For further information, contact www.samsha.gov/csap/index.htm
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