Evidence-Based Program Fact Sheets


Across Ages Across Ages is a mentoring program that pairs adult mentors over age 50 with youth ages 9 to 13. The goal of the program is to enhance the resiliency of children in order to promote positive development and prevent involvement in high-risk behaviors.
Aggression Replacement Training® (ART®) Aggression Replacement Training® (ART®) is a cognitive behavioral intervention program to help children and adolescents improve social skill competence and moral reasoning, better manage an
Botvin's Life Skills Training (LST) LifeSkills Training (LST) is a well researched, school-based substance abuse and violence prevention program, geared to upper elementary (beginning in grade 3) and junior high/middle school student
Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT) Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT) is a short-term, family-based therapeutic intervention model that targets children and adolescents aged 6 to 18 years.
Common Sense Parenting (CSP) The goal of Common Sense Parenting (CSP) program is to develop or enhance parenting skills that encourage positive behavior, discourage negative behavior, and teach alternatives to problem behavior
DARE to be You DARE to be You (DTBY) is a multilevel school, parent, and community program aimed at children ages 2 to 5 and their families.
Families and Schools Together (FAST) Families and Schools Together (FAST) is a multifamily, group intervention designed to build protective factors for children while empowering their parents to be the primary prevention agents.
Functional Family Therapy (FFT) Functional Family Therapy (FFT) is an empirically grounded, well-documented and highly successful family intervention that focuses on children and teens who are at-risk
Get Real About Violence Get Real About Violence is a mixed-media prevention program for grades K–12 that helps schools and community-based organizations build a culture of nonviolence.
Guiding Good Choices (GGC) Formerly named Preparing for the Drug-Free Years, Families that Care—Guiding Good Choices ® (GGC) is a multimedia substance abuse prevention program that gives parents of children in grades 4–8 (ages 9–14) the knowledge and skills needed to guide their children through early adolescence.
Incredible Years: Parents, Teachers, and Children Training Series (IY) The Incredible Years is a comprehensive set of curricula designed to promote social competence and prevent, reduce, and treat aggression and related conduct problems in young children (ages 4–8 years).
Multisystemic Therapy (MST) Multisystemic Therapy (MST) is an intensive family- and community-based treatment that targets high risk juvenile offenders (ages 12 – 17) and their families.
Olweus Bullying Prevention Program The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program is a multi-level, multi-component school-based program designed to prevent or reduce bullying.
Parenting Wisely Parenting Wisely is a self-administered, interactive, computer-based program that teaches parents important parenting and conflict management skills.
Parents as Teachers Parents as Teachers is an international early childhood parent education and family support program serving families from pregnancy to kindergarten.
Peers Making Peace Peers Making Peace is a peer-mediation program aimed at teaching students prosocial, peaceful conflict resolution skills.
Positive Action Positive Action is an integrated, comprehensive program designed to improve the academic achievement and multiple behaviors of children and adolescents 5 to 18 years of age.
Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) uses a systems approach to establish the social environment and behavioral supports needed for a school to be an effective learning setting for all students.
Project ACHIEVE Project ACHIEVE is a comprehensive school reform and improvement program for preschool through high school youth targeting the academic and social development of all students.
Project ALERT Project ALERT is a school-based drug prevention curriculum for the middle grades. It focuses on preventing teenage non-users from experimenting with drugs, alcohol and tobacco.
Project Northland Project Northland is a multilevel school, parent, and community-wide program designed to delay the age at which youth begin drinking, reduce use among those already drinking, reduce alcohol-related problems, and limit the use of other drugs.
Project SUCCESS Project SUCCESS (Schools Using Coordinated Community Efforts to Strengthen Students) is a school-based intervention designed to prevent and reduce substance abuse among high-risk adolescents.
Project Towards No Drug Abuse (Project TND) Project Towards No Drug Abuse (Project TND) is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse as a drug abuse intervention and prevention program for high school-age youth.
Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies (PATHS) The PATHS (Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies) program is a research-based violence prevention program that gives children in grades K–6 the skills they need to find positive, nonviolent solutions to social problems.
Reconnecting Youth (RY) Reconnecting Youth: A Peer Group Approach to Building Life Skills (RY) is a school-based prevention program for youth in grades 9 through 12 (ages 14–18) at risk for potential school dropout.
Second Step: A Violence Prevention Curriculum Second Step: A Violence Prevention Curriculum is a research-based curriculum that teaches social and emotional skills for violence prevention.
Strengthening Families Program (SFP) The Strengthening Families Program (SFP) brings families the skills to increase resilience and to reduce risk factors for substance abuse, depression, violence and aggression, delinquency, and school failure.
Too Good for Drugs Too Good for Drugs (TGFD) is a school-based prevention program designed to reduce risk factors and enhance protective factors related to alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) use among students.