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Status:Available Science-Based Substance Abuse Prevention: A Guide
Published: 2001
Highlights the risk & protective factors that help determine an individual's vulnerability to substance abuse, & examines CSAP's qualitative & quantitative strategies for evaluating existing substance abuse prevention programs & developing best practices... Details >>
Status:Available Science-Based Substance Abuse Prevention: A Guide
Published: 2001
Highlights the risk & protective factors that help determine an individual's vulnerability to substance abuse, & examines CSAP's qualitative & quantitative strategies for evaluating existing substance abuse prevention programs & developing best practices... Details >>
Status:Available Promising and Proven Substance Abuse Prevention Programs
Published: 2001
Developed to help key stakeholders structure & assess scientifically defensible programs. Designed to serve practitioners, researchers, & policymakers as we work together to develop effective solutions to substance abuse... Details >>
Status:Available Inhalant Prevention Resource Guide
Published: 2001
An inhalant abuse prevention cirriculum for grades K-12. Covers the scope of abuse, abusable products, chemical ingredients in inhalants, policy approaches to prevention, school drug policy, reasons for abuse, methods of abuse, effects, signs, symptoms, a.. Details >>
Status:Available Turning Troubled Kids Around: The Complete Student Assistance Program for Secondary Schools
Published: 1998
Step 1-The Problem: students' relationships w/ alcohol & other drugs. Step 2-Answers to problems that stem from these relationships: Mainly, the SAP. Steps 3 thru 9-How to get an SAP up & running, including tips for evaluating the program... Details >>
Status:Available Alcohol Use/Abuse Among Latinos: Issues and Examples of Culturally Competent Services
Published: 1998
Proposes a framework for culturally competent substance abuse intervention at the micro & macro level. For educators & practitioners involved in treatment, organizational planning, research or policy development. Includes an emphasis on Latina concerns... Details >>
Status:Available Hands-On Social Marketing: A Step-by-Step Guide
Published: 1999
For professionals who with to influence health or social behaviors, this guide explains basic concepts of social marketing, including planning, message & materials development, pretesting, implementation, evaluation & feedback. Covers the entire process i.. Details >>
Status:Available Guide for School-Based Drug Policy and Advisory Councils
Published: 2001
Details step-by-step directions for establishing & implementing an effective district drug advisory council, as mandated by the Safe & Drug-Free Schools Act. Appendices include case studies for policy development & additional resources... Details >>
Status:Available Teasing and Harassment
Published: 2001
Learn how to counter & prevent low-level agression in school & at home. Based on social learning theory, the frames & scripts approach provides easy-to-learn language for working w/ kids to unlearn the behavior that leads to teasing & learn positive probl.. Details >>
Status:Available Creating Safe Schools: What Principals Can Do
Published: 1994
Reviews the causes of violence & introduces techniques for getting students, parents, the central office & the community involved. Covers proactive planning, responses when tragedy does strike, measures for improving facilities & policies to create a viol.. Details >>
Status:Available Preventing Workplace Substance Abuse: Beyond Drug Testing to Wellness
Published: 2003
Sheds light on the limitations of drug testing & demonstrates how individual & organizational wellness efforts can more effectively cut employee alcohol & drug use. Describes interventions, holistic wellness, prevention programs, and harm reduction... Details >>
Status:Available Alcohol and Drug Problems at Work: The Shift to Prevention
Published: 2003
A practical manual for setting up & managing substance abuse prevention programs in the workplace. Looks at the effects of alcohol & drugs, and presents step-by-step guidance on designing, implementing and sustaining prevention programs... Details >>
Status:Available Building Assets in Congregations
Published: 1998
Calls on congregations to use the 40 developmental assets to empower youth. Addresses practical application, how to introduce assets to the congregation, family education & support, programming for youth, and outreach & partnerships in the community... Details >>
Status:Available A Collection of NIDA Notes: Articles That Address Drugs And AIDS
Published: 2002
Reprints of NIDA Notes articles relating to substance abuse and HIV/AIDS, including Hepatitis C, gender, cost to society, tuberculosis, methamphetamine, paraphernalia, and other topics... Details >>
Status:Available The Science of Prevention
Published: 1997
Explores ways to bring greater methodological rigor to prevention research. The methods discussed, while focusing on drug & alcohol abuse, are pertinent for many kinds of research, including smoking, risky sex, health problems, poor school performance, an.. Details >>
Status:Available The Social Norms Approach to Preventing School and College Age Substance Abuse
Published: 2003
Offers educators, counselors & clinicians insight into this alternative to conventional prevention. Social norming ID's teens' dramatic misperceptions about their peers' substance use, and shows that abstinence is actually "normal." Info on how to impleme.. Details >>
Status:Available 101 Ready-To-Use Drug Prevention Activities
Published: 1999
Curriculum-based & reproducible for grades 2-6, most of these activities can be done using materials usually found in classrooms. They range from those designed to help kids develop a firm decision-making process, to creative ways to make your Red Ribbon.. Details >>
Status:Available Empowerment Evaluation Principles in Practice
Published: 2005
Presents the most current formulation of the ten principles of empowerment evaluation & provides the tool to put them into practice. Includes how to balance program improvement w/ accountability, how EE can be used to guide standards- based work, & differ.. Details >>
Status:Available Focus Groups: A Practical Guide for Applied Research
Published: 2000
Characteristics of successful focus groups, from planning to data reporting. This book is considered the standard in the field- easy to use w/ checklists of important tips, cautions, and examples for each chapter. Helps you get exactly the information you.. Details >>
Status:Available How Do We Know We Are Making a Difference? An Indicators Handbook
Published: 2005
Indicators are data that help measure the impact of substance use in a community. Designed to direct you through the process of planning an indicator reporting program, selectin relevant indicators & measures, collecting local data and reporting to your t.. Details >>
Status:Available Teacher's Guidebook to Inhalant Abuse
Published: 1992
Cirriculum for inhalant abuse prevention for grades K-6; includes lesson plans and activities that focus on health, how our bodies work, life skills like decision-making, refusal, self-worth, personal strengths & weaknesses and self-concept, as well as th.. Details >>
Status:Available Addiction Professional: March 2005
Published: 2005
Articles include: Attracting Medical Specialist to the Addiction Field; Your Clients' Support Groups; Prevention Program Guidance; Trends in Counseling; Understanding Gambling's Addictive Process; Using Dreams in Treatment; The Kubler-Ross Grief Model... Details >>
Status:Available A Portrait of Adolescents in America, 2001
Published: 2001
Explores the health & health care experience of 2,000 adolescents ages 13-17 surveyed on-line. Focuses on three groups- Risky Health Behaviors, Symptoms of Depression, & Special Health Care Needs. These groups are less healthy, less confident, & less conn.. Details >>
Status:Available Big Brothers/Big Sisters: A Study of Volunteer Recruitment and Screening
Published: 1994
Questions addressed in this study include: How do BB/BS agencies recruit potential volunteers? What techniques are used to attract minority volunteers? Ultimately, the goal of the screening process is to find safe & committed volun- teers... Details >>
Status:Available Making A Difference: An Impact Study of Big Brothers Big Sisters
Published: 1995
A re-issue of a 1995 impact study in reminder that young lives can be profoundly affected by social intervention. Raises 2 issues: Is there a sufficient number of volunteers who would be willing to make the time & committment? How do we fund effective pro.. Details >>
Status:Available College Students as Mentors for At-Risk Youth: A Study of Six Campus Partners in Learning Programs
Published: 1992
Addresses these questions: Are there large numbers of adults willing to take on the demands of mentoring? Can mentoring be integrated into large-scale programs? Can we sum up the adult role in mentoring? What level of training is required? and others... Details >>
Status:Available Partners in Growth: Elder Mentors and At-Risk Youth
Published: 1988
Provides a fuller understanding of what really happens when elders & at-risk youth are brought together. Staff visited 5 exemplary intergenerational programs in MI, MA, & ME... Details >>
Status:Available Big Brothers/Big Sisters: A Study of Program Practices
Published: 1993
Documents the implementation of the BB/BS program model & its effectiveness. Examines the model by analyzing variations in program practice among 8 BB/BS agencies, reflecting differences in recruitment, screening, training, matching, & supervision... Details >>
Status:Available Understanding Mentoring Relationships
Published: 1992
This study provides potential mentors w/ info about different programs & highlights the uniqueness of mentoring approaches. Gives agencies a systematic way of describing their programs, and gives policy makers a framework for understanding mentoring progr.. Details >>
Status:Available Understanding Mentoring Relationships
Published: 1992
This study provides potential mentors w/ info about different programs & highlights the uniqueness of mentoring approaches. Gives agencies a systematic way of describing their programs, and gives policy makers a framework for understanding mentoring progr.. Details >>
Status:Available 2003 Pennsylvania Youth Survey Report
Published: 2003
A report on the behavior, attitudes & knowledge concerning alcohol, tobacco, drugs & violence of secondary school students in Lancaster County. Presents findings in 3 sections: 1. risk & protective factors 2. drug use 3. anti-social behaviors... Details >>
Status:Available 2003 Pennsylvania Youth Survey Report
Published: 2003
A report on the behavior, attitudes & knowledge concerning alcohol, tobacco, drugs & violence of secondary school students in Lancaster County. Presents findings in 3 sections: 1. risk & protective factors 2. drug use 3. anti-social behaviors... Details >>
Status:Available Executive Summary Forum on Mentoring Youth
Published: 2000
This November 6, 200 forum brought together agencies who offer mentoring programs, as well as interested agencies, to garner feedback about best practices, challenges being faced, & opportunities for collaboration... Details >>
Status:Available Executive Summary Forum on Mentoring Youth
Published: 2000
This November 6, 200 forum brought together agencies who offer mentoring programs, as well as interested agencies, to garner feedback about best practices, challenges being faced, & opportunities for collaboration... Details >>
Status:Available Alcohol and Drug Abuse in America: Policies for Prevention
Published: 1994
Six recommendations for effective public policies & respon- sible funding approaches to end substance abuse-fueled violence. Working together, the major institutions of every community- families, faith, community, education, health care, criminal justice,.. Details >>
Status:Available A Community Substance Abuse Indicators Handbook
Published: 1997
Written to assist community coalitions & other groups fight--ing substance abuse to describe the scope & nature of local problems. Includes 20 indicators & guides community leaders to the best data sources to start local studies. Outline important interpr.. Details >>
Status:Available Building Practice Improvement Collaboratives: Eleven Case Studies
Published: 2003
The authors of each program describe how they built & sustained collaborative organizational infrastructures, including how they recruited key stakeholders & how they developed plans to address results from community needs assessments... Details >>
Status:Available Safe and Secure: Guides to Creating Safer Schools
Published: 2002
Part 1: Creating Schoolwide Prevention & Intervention Strategies. Part 2: School Policies & Legal Issues Supporting Safe Schools. Addresses why safety policies are important and how to implement them... Details >>
Status:Available Straight Up (Closed Captioned)
A television series of three 30-minute programs for high school students. Each 30 minute program is divided into two parts. The first program looks at knowledge and facts. Program two is about attitudes and perceptions. Program three covers self-image.. Details >>
Status:Available Helping Your Children to Stay Out of Trouble
This program incorporates scenes from Duffy's Story to demonstrate the steps of refusal. Two adults introduce the skill to two children and then coach them in how to stay out of trouble with their friends... Details >>
Status:Available Making Friends
Teaches young people an easy, non-threatening way to make new friends, whether they are the new kid at school or merely want to widen their circle of friends... Details >>
Status:Available Negotiation Skills
Five parts. Shows how to replace conflict with compromise and improves problem-solving skills. It promotes the understanding of others' views, and fosters active listening... Details >>
Status:Available Staying Out of Trouble With Your Friends
Animal puppets teach children to STOP; THINK; LOOK around for something to do instead; & GIVE yourself a pat on the back for staying out of trouble. Encourages children to consider the consequences of their actions, which facilitates the learning of soc.. Details >>
Status:Available Talking Helps
Four parts. Shows teens how to help their friends and themselves work through problems... Details >>
Status:Available You Can Refuse...Including Group Pressure
Realistic vignettes show teens how to stay out of trouble with friends. The video emphasizes that students can stay out of trouble without losing their friends... Details >>
Status:Available Close to Home- Moyers on Addiction: The Politics of Addiction
Published: 1998
The 5th video in the series tells the story of how our society meets the challenges of translating what scientists, doctors, counselors, and recovering addicts have learned into public policy. Looks at Arizona's Proposition 200, which emphasizes treatment.. Details >>
Status:Available Say No and Mean It
This video is designed to assist teachers in teaching kids to withstand peer pressure. Learning to apply the simple concepts and techniques featured in this program will help students toward increased self-worth and self-respect... Details >>
Status:Available Suicide Prevention
Published: 2003
Students will learn the key points of suicide prevention, characteristics of students who may be at higher risk, why any threat of suicide should be taken seriously, steps to take if a friend is suicidal, & problem-solving tips & effective communication s.. Details >>
Status:Available 40 Assets Start Over, Starting Now
The video features Search Institute president Dr. Peter Benson, as well as parents, community leaders, youth workers, and others who've discovered this powerful way to start over and give kids what they really need to succeed... Details >>
Status:Available How to Raise A Drug Free Child
Program on what drugs and alcohol are doing to children and how a parent can best fight back... Details >>
Status:Available The Power of Choice: Alcohol and Drugs
Published: 1980
Counselor/Comedian Mike Pritchard talks with teenagers about alcohol, drugs, decisions, consequences, and the power of choice. From the 1980's... Details >>
Status:Available Close to Home: Moyers on Addiction (Complete Collection)
Published: 1998
Bill Moyers' 5-part series on addiction. 1. Portrait of Addiction 2. The Hijacked Brain 3. Changing Lives (about successful treatment programs) 4. The Next Generation (about how children are affected by addiction) 5. The Politics of Addiction Excel.. Details >>
Status:Available Meth: What's Cooking in Your Neighborhood?
Published: 2002
Provides useful information on what methamphetamine is, what it does, and why it seems appealing and is dangerous. Covers how meth is made and how communities can prevent its use. Study guide included... Details >>
Status:Available Leap of Faith: Bringing Faith-Based Programs Into Your Community
Published: 2002
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Status:Available War Against Tobacco
Published: 1997
From the series 20th Century With Mike Wallace... Details >>
Status:Available Marijuana: Weeding Out the Hype!
Published: 2000
Teleconference for adults deals with marijuana facts, current trends, changes in potency, documented effects, and treatment. Includes interviews w/ teens in recovery and tips for parents. Emphasis is on behavior modification, with examples of risk & prote.. Details >>
Status:Available Managing Shame, Preventing Violence: A Call to Our Clergy- DVD
Published: 2003
**DVD** Explosive, interpersonal violence is often in the spotlight, but is linked to less showy ills such as rude- ness, incivility, sexual hedonism, & substance abuse. Psychiatrist Donald Nathanson links all of these to the way our culture handles shame.. Details >>