Registry of Evidence-Based Prevention Programs

Active Parenting, 4th Edition

Active Parenting is a video-based education program designed to teach parents how to raise a child by using encouragement, building self-esteem, active listening, effective communication, and problem solving.

• Number of Sessions: 6
• Session Length: 2 Hours
• Population: Parents of Youth Ages 5-12
• Setting: Home
• Institute of Medicine (IOM)/National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Designation: Universal
• Risk Factors: Parental Attitudes Towards Drugs, Family Conflict
• Substance Use Outcomes: None
• Languages: English, Spanish

Active Parenting of Teens

Active Parenting of Teens is designed to decrease family management problems and address attitudes towards drug use.

• Number of Sessions: 6
• Session Length: 2 Hours
• Population: Parents of Youth Ages 13-17
• Setting: Home, school, and other community settings
• IOM/NAM Designation: Universal
• Risk Factors: Family Management Problems, Parental Attitudes Towards Drugs, Low Commitment to School, Favorable Attitudes Toward Drug Use
• Substance Use Outcomes: None
• Languages: English, Spanish

All Stars Core

All Stars is a school- and community-based intervention with reduction in drug use outcomes.

• Number of Sessions: 13
• Session Length: 45 Minutes
• Population: Middle School
• Setting: School
• IOM/NAM Designation: Universal
• Substance Use Outcomes: Drug Use (Short-term only)
• Language: English, Spanish

All Stars - Booster

All Stars Booster is designed to be delivered one year after Core. It includes nine 45-minute sessions that reinforce (but do not duplicate) lessons learned in Core.

• Number of Sessions: 9
• Session Length: 45 minutes
• Population: Middle School
• Setting: School
• Risk Factors: Low Commitment to School, Perceived Risk of Drug Use
• Language: English, Spanish

Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (BASICS)

Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (BASICS) is a prevention program for college students who drink alcohol heavily and have experienced or are at risk for alcohol-related problems.

• Number of Sessions: 2
• Session Length: 1 hour
• Population: Ages 18-25
• Setting: School, Community
• IOM/NAM Designation: Indicated
• Substance Use Outcomes: Alcohol
• Language: English

Building Skills

Building Skills is a 12-lesson curriculum designed to help 5th graders by improving their inter- and intrapersonal skills.

• Number of Sessions: 12
• Session Length: 1 hour
• Population: Grade 5
• Setting: School
• IOM/NAM Designation: Selective
• Protective Factor:  Social Skills
• Risk Factors: Low Commitment to School, Early Initiation of Drug Use, Early Initiation (K-5) of Problem Behavior
• Language: English

Creating Lasting Family Connections

Creating Lasting Family Connections (CLFC) is a family-focused program that aims to build the resiliency of youth aged 9 to 17 years and reduce the frequency of their alcohol and other drug (AOD) use.

• Number of Sessions: 15-18
• Session Length: 1.5 to 2.5 hours
• Population: Ages 9-17 and their parents, guardians, and other family members
• Setting: Community Settings
• IOM/NAM Designation: Selective
• Protective Factors: Community Opportunities for Prosocial Involvement, Family Attachment
• Risk Factors: Family Conflict, Parental Attitudes Towards Drugs, Academic Failure, Friends who use Drugs, Early Initiation of Drug Use
• Substance Use Outcomes: Drugs, Alcohol
• Language: English, Spanish

Early Risers Skills for Success

Early Risers Skills for Success is a multicomponent, developmentally focused, competency-enhancement program that targets 6- to 12-year-old elementary school students who are at high risk for early development of conduct problems, including substance use. 

• Number of Sessions: 24
• Session Length: N/A
• Population: Ages 6-12 + Parents/Guardians
• Setting: Home, School, and other Community Agencies
• IOM/NAM Designation: Universal
• Protective Factor: Social Skills
• Risk Factors: Family Management Problems, Early Initiation (K-5) of Problem Behavior
• Language: English

Familias Unidas

A family-based program for Hispanic families conducted in Spanish. It is designed to prevent conduct disorders; use of illicit drugs and alcohol; and improve family functioning. The intervention is delivered primarily through multi-parent groups, which aim to develop effective parenting skills, and family visits, during which parents apply skills while interacting with their adolescent.

• Number of Sessions: 8 multiparent group sessions and 4 family sessions w/adolescent
• Session Length: 2 hours (parent sessions), 1 hour (family sessions)
• Population: Hispanic or Latino families with children ages 12-17 – conducted in Spanish
• Setting: Home and School
• IOM/NAM Designation: Selective
• Risk Factors: Family Management Problems, Family Conflict
• Substance Use Outcomes: Decrease in recent substance use
• Language: English, Spanish

Families and Schools Together (FAST)

Families and Schools Together (FAST) is a 2-year, multifamily group intervention designed to build relationships between and within families, schools, and communities (particularly in low-income areas) to increase all children's well-being.

• Number of Sessions: 8 weekly sessions and 2 years of monthly meetings
• Session Length: 2.5 hours
• Population: Ages 0-14 + Parents/Guardians
• Setting: School and Community
• IOM/NAM Designation: Selective
• Protective Factors: Family Opportunities for Prosocial Involvement, School Opportunities for Prosocial Involvement
• Risk Factors: Low Commitment to School, Academic Failure
• Language: English, Spanish

Family Spirit

Family Spirit® is an evidence-based, culturally tailored home-visiting program to promote optimal health and wellbeing for expectant Indigenous/American Indian mothers and their children. Family Spirit combines the use of paraprofessionals from the community as home visitors and a culturally focused, strengths-based curriculum as a core strategy to support young families. Parents gain knowledge and skills to promote healthy development and positive lifestyles for themselves and their children. 63 lessons are taught between pregnancy and the child’s 3rd birthday.

• Number of Sessions: 63
• Session Length: 1 hour
• Population: Expectant Indigenous/American Indian mothers
• Setting: Community, Home, and Outpatient
• IOM/NAM Designation: Selective/Indicated
• Risk Factors: Depressive Symptoms
• Substance Use Outcomes: Cannabis, Illicit drugs
• Language: English

FIRST STEP Next

(INDICATED POPULATIONS ONLY) FIRST STEP Next is a collaborative home and school intervention for preschool through second grade. The teacher, family member, and behavioral coach (for example, school counselor, early childhood educator, or behavioral specialist) teach the at-risk child skills that contribute to school success and the development of friendships.

• Number of Sessions: The intervention requires 2 to 3 months to implement (daily), followed by a maintenance phase for the remainder of the school year.
• Session Length: 20 minutes
• Population: Pre-K – Grade 2 (Indicated)
• Setting: Home, School
• IOM/NAM Designation: Indicated
• Protective Factors: Family Opportunities for Prosocial Involvement, School Opportunities for Prosocial Involvement, Social Skills
• Risk Factors: Family Management Problems, Family Conflict, Low Commitment to School, Parental Attitudes Favorable Towards Other Problem Behavior, Early Initiation (K – 5) of Problem Behavior
• Language: English, Spanish

Guiding Good Choices

Guiding Good Choices (GGC) is a drug use prevention program that provides parents of children in grades 4 through 8 (9 to 14 years old) with the knowledge and skills needed to guide their children through early adolescence. It seeks to strengthen and clarify family expectations for behavior, enhance the conditions that promote bonding within the family, and teach skills that allow children to resist drug use successfully.

• Number of Sessions: 5
• Session Length: 1 hour
• Population: Parents/Guardians of children ages 9-14
• Setting: School
• IOM/NAM Designation: Universal
• Protective Factors: Family Opportunities for Prosocial Involvement, Family Rewards for Prosocial Involvement, Social Skills
• Risk Factors: Family Management Problems, Perceived Risk of Drug Use, Early Initiation of Drug Use
• Substance Use Outcomes: Alcohol, Cannabis, Illicit Drugs (narcotics, cocaine, ecstasy, etc.)
• Language: English

Incredible Years - Classroom Dinosaur

Incredible Years - The child program aims to strengthen children's social and emotional competencies, such as understanding and communicating feelings, using effective problem-solving strategies, managing anger, practicing friendship and conversational skills, and behaving appropriately in the classroom.

• Number of Sessions: 65
• Session Length: 20 to 30 minutes
• Population: Ages 3-8
  • Level 1, Ages 3-5
  • Level 2: Ages 5-6
  • Level 3: Ages 7-8
• Setting: School
• IOM/NAM Designation: Universal/Selective
• Protective Factors: Family Rewards for Prosocial Involvement, School Opportunities for Prosocial Involvement, Social Skills
• Risk Factors: Early Initiation (K-5) of Problem Behavior, Family Management Problems,
• Language: Spanish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian

Incredible Years - Parent Program

Incredible Years - Parent programs focus on strengthening parent-child interactions and relationships, reducing harsh discipline, and fostering parents' ability to promote children's social, emotional, and language development.

• Number of Sessions:
  • Baby: 9 to 12
  • Toddler: 13
  • Preschool: 18 to 20
  • School Age: 12 to 20
• Session Length: 2-3 Hours
• Population: Parents/Guardians of Children 0-12 years:
  • 0 to 1 year: Baby program
  • 1 to 3 years: Toddler Program
  • 3 to 6 years: Preschool Programs
  • 6 to 12 years: School Age Program
• Setting: School/Community
• IOM/NAM Designation: Universal/Selective/Indicated
• Risk Factors: Family Management Problems, Early Initiation (K – 5) of Problem Behavior
• Language: Spanish, French, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Dutch
  Swedish, Russian, Estonian, Portuguese, Chinese

Keepin' it Real

Keepin' it REAL is designed to help students assess the risks associated with substance abuse, enhance decision making and resistance strategies, improve antidrug normative beliefs and attitudes, and reduce substance use. The curriculum places special emphasis on resistance strategies represented in the acronym REAL: Refuse offers to use substances, explain why you do not want to use substances, avoid situations in which substances are used, and Leave situations in which substances are used.

• Number of Sessions: 10
• Session Length: 45 minutes
• Population: Middle School
• Setting: School
• IOM/NAM Designation: Universal
• Substance Use Outcome: Alcohol, Cannabis
• Language: English, Spanish

Life Skills Training (LST) - Elementary

The Botvin LifeSkills Training (LST) Elementary is a school-based program has outcomes for early initiation of problems behaviors and social skills. LST is based on both the social influence and competence enhancement models of prevention.

• Number of Sessions: 8
• Session Length: 30-45 minutes
• Population: Elementary
• Setting: School
• IOM/NAM Designation: Universal
• Protective Factor: Social Skills
• Risk Factor: Early Initiation (K – 5) of Problem Behavior
• Language: English

Life Skills Training (LST) - Middle School

The Botvin LifeSkills Training (LST) Middle School aims to prevent alcohol and cannabis use and violence by targeting the major social and psychological factors that promote the initiation of substance use and other risky behaviors.

• Number of Sessions:
  • Foundation Level 1 (Ideally in grades 6/7): 15 class sessions (plus 3 optional)
  • Booster Level 2 (only implemented after level 1): 10 class sessions (plus 2 optional)
  • Booster Level 3 (only implemented after level 2): 5 class sessions (plus 4 optional)
  • Session Length: 45-50 minutes
• Population: Middle School
• Setting: School
• IOM/NAM Designation: Universal
• Protective Factor: Social Skills
• Risk Factors: Early Initiation of Drug Use, Perceived Risk of Drug Use
• Substance Use Outcomes: Alcohol, Cannabis, Opioids
• Language: English

Life Skills Training (LST) – High School

The Botvin LifeSkills Training (LST) High School program is a highly interactive, skills-based program designed to promote positive health and personal development for youth in grades 9 or 10. The program is comprehensive, dynamic, and developmentally designed to promote mental health, social-emotional (SEL) skills and positive youth development.

• Number of Sessions: 10
• Session Length: 45 minutes
• Population: High School – 9th or 10th grade only
• Setting: School
• IOM/NAM Designation: Universal
• Protective Factor: Social Skills
• Substance Use Outcomes: Alcohol, Cannabis
• Language: English

Lions Quest – Skills for Adolescence

Lions Quest Skills for Adolescence (SFA) is a universal and comprehensive curriculum for students in grades 6–8 with the aim of fostering a positive learning environment, teaching social and emotional skills, promoting prosocial behavior, and preventing cannabis use.

• Number of Sessions: 34
• Session Length: 45 minutes
• Population: Grades 6-8
• Setting: School and Classroom
• IOM/NAM Designation: Universal
• Protective Factor: Social Skills
• Substance Use Outcomes: Cannabis
• Language: English, Spanish

Olweus Bullying Prevention

Olweus Bullying Prevention is used at the school, classroom, and individual levels and includes methods to reach out to parents and the community for involvement and support. These efforts are designed to improve peer relations and make the school a safer and more positive place for students to learn and develop.

• Number of Sessions: NA
• Session Length: X
• Population: Ages 6-18
• Setting: School
• IOM/NAM Designation: Universal
• Risk Factor: Early initiation (K to 5) of Problem Behavior
• Substance Use Outcomes: Alcohol Cannabis
• Language: English, Spanish

Parenting Wisely

Parenting Wisely is a set of interactive, computer-based training programs for parents of children ages 3-18 years. Based on social learning, cognitive behavioral, and family systems theories, the programs aim to increase parental communication and disciplinary skills.

• Number of Sessions: 9
• Session Length: X
• Population: Ages 3-18 + Parents/Guardians
• Setting: Online, Computer
• IOM/NAM Designation: Universal /Selective
• Protective Factor: Family Opportunities for Prosocial Involvement
• Risk Factors: Family Conflict, Family Management, Early Initiation (K – 5) of Problem Behavior
• Language: English, Spanish

PATHS

The PATHS curriculum is a comprehensive program for promoting emotional and social competencies and reducing aggression and behavior problems in elementary school-aged children while simultaneously enhancing the educational process in the classroom. Although primarily focused on the school and classroom settings, information and activities are also included for use with parents.

• Number of Sessions: 44
• Session Length: 30 minutes
• Population: Preschool & Kindergarten
• Setting: School
• IOM/NAM Designation: Universal
• Protective Factor: Social Skills
• Risk Factors: Academic Failure, Early Initiation (K-5) of Problem Behavior
• Language: English, Spanish, French

PAX Good Behavior Game

PAX Good Behavior Game (GBG) classroom behavior. management strategy for elementary school integrated into standard curricula. GBG uses a game format with teams with rewards for pro-social behavior. Provider is the “coach” and capacity builder.

• Number of Sessions: N/A
• Session Length: Up to 20 minutes depending on age (longer for older kids)
• Population: Ages 5-12
• Setting: School
• IOM/NAM Designation: Universal
• Risk Factor: Early Initiation (K-5) of Problem Behavior
• Substance Use Outcomes: Long term: Alcohol, Drugs
• Language: English

Positive Action – Elementary School

Positive Action is a systematic educational program that promotes an intrinsic interest in learning and encourages cooperation among students. It works by teaching and reinforcing the intuitive philosophy that you feel good about yourself when you do positive actions.

• Number of Sessions: 55 lessons
• Session Length: 15 to 20 minutes, per lesson
• Population: Elementary School
• Setting: School
• IOM/NAM Designation: Universal
• Risk Factors: Academic Failure, Low Commitment to School, Early Initiation of Problem Behavior
• Substance Use Outcomes: Alcohol, Drugs
• Language: (Bilingual English/Spanish) program materials

Positive Action - Middle School

Positive Action is a systematic educational program that promotes an intrinsic interest in learning and encourages cooperation among students. It works by teaching and reinforcing the intuitive philosophy that you feel good about yourself when you do positive actions.

• Number of Sessions: 35 lessons
• Session Length: 15 to 20 minutes, per lesson
• Population: Middle School
• Setting: School
• IOM/NAM Designation: Universal
• Risk Factors: Academic Failure, Low Commitment to School
• Substance Use Outcomes: Alcohol, Drugs
• Language: English, Spanish

Preventure

Preventure is a school-based intervention aimed to reduce drug and alcohol use while improving emotional well-being. Students who demonstrate certain personality profiles as identified through a screening questionnaire participate in a two 90-minute workshop. The workshops focus on motivating teens to understand their personality type that may lead to certain emotional or behavioral reactions.

• Number of sessions: 2 (Group setting required)
• Session Length: 90 minutes
• Population: Ages 12-17
• Setting: School
• IOM/NAM Designation: Selective
• Substance Use Outcomes: Alcohol, Cannabis, Illicit drugs
• Language: Spanish, French

Project Towards No Drug (TND) Abuse

Project Towards No Drug Abuse (Project TND) is a drug use prevention program for high school youth. The current version of the curriculum is designed to help students develop self-control and communication skills, acquire resources that help them resist drug use, improve decision making strategies, and develop the motivation to not use drugs. It is packaged in 12 40-minute interactive sessions to be taught by teachers or health educators.

• Number of Sessions: 12
• Session Length: 40 to 50 minutes
• Population: Ages 13-17
• Setting: School
• IOM/NAM Designation: Universal/Selective
• Substance Use Outcomes: Drugs
• Language: English, Spanish

Protecting You/Protecting Me

Protecting You/Protecting Me (PY/PM) is a 5-year classroom-based alcohol use prevention and vehicle safety program for elementary school students in grades 1-5 (ages 6-11) and high school students in grades 11 and 12. The program aims to reduce alcohol-related injuries and death among children and youth due to underage alcohol use and riding in vehicles with drivers who are not alcohol free.

• Number of Sessions: 8
• Session Length: 20 to 40 minutes
• Population: Ages 6-11
• Setting: School
• IOM/NAM Designation: Universal
• Risk Factor: Perceived Risk of Drug Use
• Language: English

Refuse, Remove, Reasons High School Education

Refuse, Remove, Reasons High School Education Program (RRR) is a substance use prevention program that is designed to decrease their misperception of normative peer AOD use; and increase their refusal skills for AOD use.

• Number of Sessions: 5
• Session Length: Varies
• Population: Ages 13-17
• Setting: School
• IOM/NAM Designation: Universal
• Protective Factor: Social Skills
• Risk Factor: Perceived Risk of Drug Use
• Substance Use Outcomes: Cannabis
• Language: English

Second Step - Elementary Grades K-5 (Classroom Kits)

Second Step–Elementary is a universal, classroom-based program for children in kindergarten through fifth grade, which is designed to increase school success and decrease problem behaviors by promoting social–emotional competence and self-regulation. The Second Step program consists of a skills-focused, social–emotional learning (SEL) curriculum that emphasizes skills that strengthen students’ ability to learn, have empathy, manage emotions, and solve problems.

• Number of Sessions:
  • K: 25
  • Grades 1-5: 22
• Session Length: 20 to 40 minutes
• Population: K-5th Grade
• Setting: School
• IOM/NAM Designation: Universal
• Protective Factor: Social Skills
• Risk Factor: Early Initiation (K – 5) of Problem Behavior
• Language: English, Spanish

Second Step - Middle School Grades 6-9 (Classroom Kits)

The Second Step Middle School program is a universal, classroom-based intervention for children in grades six through eight, which is designed to decrease problem behaviors by promoting social–emotional competence. The Second Step program consists of a skills-focused, social–emotional learning (SEL) curriculum that emphasizes directly teaching students how to strengthen their ability to learn, have empathy, manage emotions, and solve problems.

• Number of Sessions: 26
• Session Length: 25 minutes
• Population: Middle School
• Setting: School
• IOM/NAM Designation: Universal
• Risk Factor: Engage in Other Problem Behavior
• Language: English, Spanish, French

SPORT (Alcohol/Drug) Prevention Plus Wellness – High School

SPORT Prevention Plus Wellness, a motivational intervention designed for use by all adolescents, integrates substance use prevention with health promotion to help adolescents minimize and avoid substances while increasing physical activity and other health-enhancing habits, including eating well and getting adequate sleep.

• Number of Sessions: 1
• Session Length: X
• Population: Ages 14-18
• Setting: Home, School, and other community settings
• IOM/NAM Designation: Universal
• Protective Factor: Family Opportunities for Prosocial Involvement
• Risk Factors: Early Initiation of Drug Use, Perceived Risk of Drug Use
• Substance Use Outcomes: Alcohol, Drugs
• Language: English, Spanish

Strengthening Families Program (Original)

The Strengthening Families Program (SFP) is a family skills training program designed to increase the perceived risk of drug use. SFP comprises three life-skills courses delivered in 14 weekly, 2-hour sessions.

• Number of Sessions: 14
• Session Length: 2 Hours
• Population: Ages 3-16 + Parents/Guardians
• Setting: Home and School
• IOM/NAM Designation: Universal / Selective
• Risk Factor: Perceived Risk of Drug Use
• Substance Use Outcomes: Alcohol, Cannabis
• Language: English, Spanish

Strengthening Families Program - Youth 10-14

The Strengthening Families Program: For Parents and Youth 10-14 (SFP 10-14) is a family skills training intervention designed to enhance school success and reduce youth substance use and aggression among 10- to 14-year-olds.

• Number of Sessions: 7
• Session Length: 2 hours
• Population: Ages 10-14 + Parents/Guardians
• Setting: School
• IOM/NAM Designation: Universal
• Risk Factor: Early Initiation of Drug Use
• Substance Use Outcomes: Alcohol, Cannabis
• Language: English, Spanish

Strong African American Families Program

The Strong African American Families (SAAF) Program is a culturally personalized, family-centered intervention for African American youth, and their caregivers. SAAF is based on a developmental model of processes through which program participation has been shown to protect African American (AA) youth from the initiation and escalation of risk behaviors.

• Number of Sessions: 7
• Session Length: 2 Hours
• Population: African American/ Black youth aged 10-14 & their caregivers
• Setting: Family and other community settings
• IOM/NAM Designation: Universal
• Protective Factor: Social Skills
• Risk Factors: Family Management Problems, Parental Attitudes Favorable Towards Drugs, Early Initiation of Drug Use, Favorable Attitudes Towards Drugs
• Substance Use Outcomes: Alcohol
• Language: English

Support for Students Exposed to Trauma (SSET)

Support for Students Exposed to Trauma (SSET) is a school-based group intervention for students who have exposed to traumatic events designed to teach cognitive and behavioral skills, such as problem solving, psychoeducation, and relaxation.

• Number of Sessions: 10
• Session Length: 45 minutes
• Population: Ages 10-14
• Setting: School
• IOM/NAM Designation: Selective/Indicated
• Risk Factors: Depression, Problem Behavior
• Language: English, Spanish

Teen Intervene

Teen Intervene is a brief, early intervention program for 12- to 19-year-olds who display the early stages of alcohol involvement. Integrating stages of change theory, motivational enhancement, and cognitive-behavioral therapy, the intervention aims to help teens reduce and ultimately eliminate their substance use.

• Number of Sessions: 3
• Session Length: 1 hour
• Population: Ages 12 to 19
• Setting: School and Outpatient
• IOM/NAM Designation: Indicated
• Protective Factor: Social Skills
• Risk Factor: Perceived Risk of Drug Use
• Substance Use Outcomes: Alcohol, Cannabis
• Language: English, Spanish

Too Good For Drugs (TGFD) - Elementary

Too Good for Drugs (TGFD) is a school-based prevention program for kindergarten through 12th grade that builds on students' resiliency by teaching them how to be socially competent and autonomous problem solvers. The program is designed to benefit everyone in the school by providing needed education in social and emotional competencies and by reducing risk factors and building protective factors that affect students in these age groups.

• Number of Sessions: 10
• Session Length: 30 minutes to 1 hour
• Population: K to 5th grade
• Setting: School
• IOM/NAM Designation: Universal
• Protective Factors: School Opportunities for Prosocial Involvement, Social Skills
• Risk Factors: Early Initiation of (K-5) of Problem Behavior, Perceived Risk of Drug Use
• Language: English, Spanish

Too Good For Drugs (TGFD) - Middle School

Too Good for Drugs (TGFD) is a school-based prevention program for kindergarten through 12th grade that builds on students' resiliency by teaching them how to be socially competent and autonomous problem solvers. The program is designed to benefit everyone in the school by providing needed education in social and emotional competencies and by reducing risk factors and building protective factors that affect students in these age groups.

• Number of Sessions: 10
• Session Length: 1 hour
• Population: Middle School
• Setting: School
• IOM/NAM Designation: Universal
• Protective Factors: School Opportunities for Prosocial Involvement, Social Skills
• Risk Factors: Academic Failure, Perceived Risk of Drug Use, Favorable Attitudes Towards Drug Use
• Substance Use Outcomes: Alcohol, Cannabis
• Language: English, Spanish

Too Good For Violence (TGFV)Elementary/Middle School

Too Good for Violence (TGFV) is designed to enhance prosocial behaviors and skills and improve protective factors related to conflict and violence.

• Number of Sessions: 10
• Session Length: 30 to 50 minutes
• Population: K to 8th grade
• Setting: School
• IOM/NAM Designation: Universal
• Protective Factors: Social Skills, Prosocial Involvement
• Risk Factor: Early Initiation (K-5) of Problem Behavior
• Language: English, Spanish

Too Good for Drugs & Violence (TGFDV) - High School

Too Good for Violence High School (TGFDV-HS) is a school-based, universal substance abuse prevention program that is designed to teach students skills and attitudes that enhance well-being.

• Number of Sessions: 15
• Session Length: 1 hour
• Population: Ages 13 to 17
• Setting: School
• IOM/NAM Designation: Universal
• Protective Factor: Social Skills
• Risk Factors: Parental Attitudes Favorable Towards Drugs, Attitudes Toward Drug Use, Friends Who Use Drugs, Perceived Risk of Drug Use
• Language: English, Spanish

Triple P – Positive Parenting Program Level 2 – Selected; Ages 0 to 12

Triple P – Positive Parenting Program Level 2 – Selected Triple P are seminars for parents interested in general information about promoting their child’s development.

• Number of Sessions: 3
• Session Length: 1.5 hours
• Population: Parents/Guardians of 0 to 12 years
• Setting: Community
• IOM/NAM Designation: Universal
• Risk Factors: Family Conflict, Family Management Problems, Family History of Problem Behavior, Early Initiation (K to 5) of Problem Behavior
• Language: English, French, Arabic, Greek, Malay, Romanian, Indonesian, Berber, Turkish

Triple P – Positive Parenting Program Level 3 Group; Ages 0 to 12

Triple P – Positive Parenting Program Level 3 is a small group intervention for parents of children 0 to 12 years old. It aims to prevent problems before they arise and to create family environments that encourage a child’s healthy development.

• Number of Sessions: 5
• Session Length: 2 hours
• Population: Parents/Guardians of 0 to 12 years
• Setting: Community
• IOM/NAM Designation: Universal
• Protective Factors: Social Skills (stress management), Prosocial Involvement
• Risk Factors: Family Conflict, Family Management Problems, Family History of Problem Behaviors, Depressive Symptoms
• Language: English, French, Arabic, Greek, Malay, Romanian, Indonesian, Berber, Turkish

Triple P – Positive Parenting Program Level 3 Group; Teen

The Teen Triple P Discussion Group Series includes parent discussion groups on commonly encountered problems such as getting teenagers to cooperate, coping with teenagers’ emotions, reducing family conflict. The discussion groups are designed to provide an overview of the positive parenting principles for all parents who are interested.

• Number of Sessions: 4
• Session Length: 2 hours
• Population: Parents/Guardians of teens
• Setting: Community
• IOM/NAM Designation: Universal
• Risk Factors: Family Conflict, Family Management Problems
• Languages: English, French, Arabic, Greek, Malay, Romanian, Indonesian, Berber, Turkish

Triple P – Positive Parenting Program Level 4 Group; Ages 0 to 12

Triple P - Positive Parenting Program Level 4 Group; Ages 0-12 small group intervention for parents of children 0 to 12 years old. This version is for parents with concerns about their child’s behavior who require intensive training in positive parenting or those who wish to learn a variety of parenting skills to apply to multiple contexts.

• Number of Sessions:
  • 5 x 2-hour group sessions + 3 x 20-minute individual telephone consultations
• Session Length: 2-hour group sessions, 20-minute individual phone consultations
• Population: Parents/Guardians of 0-12 yrs
• Setting: Community
• IOM/NAM Designation: Universal
• Protective Factors: Social Skills
• Risk Factors: Family Conflict, Family Management Problems, Early Initiation (K – 5) of Problem Behavior
• Language: English, French, Arabic, Greek, Malay, Romanian, Indonesian, Berber, Turkish

Triple P – Positive Parenting Program Level 4 Group; Teen

Triple P - Positive Parenting Program Level 4 Group, Teen, small group intervention for parents of teens. This version is for parents with concerns about their teen’s behavior who require intensive training in positive parenting or those who wish to learn a variety of parenting skills to apply to multiple contexts.

• Number of Sessions: 5 x 2-hour group sessions + 3 x 20-minute individual telephone consultations
• Session Length: 2-hour group sessions, 20-minute individual phone consultations
• Population: Parents/Guardians of teens
• Setting: Community
• IOM/NAM Designation: Universal
• Protective Factors: Social Skills
• Risk Factors: Family Conflict, Family Management Problems
• Language: English, French, Arabic, Greek, Malay, Romanian, Indonesian, Berber, Turkish