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Table of Contents Foreword Introduction The Need for Resilience Enhancing and Violence Prevention Initiatives Understanding Youth Violence Patterns of Adolescent Violence Perspectives on Violence Risk and Protective Factors and Processes Ethnic Minority and Cultural Issues The Public Health Approach to Enhancing Resilience and Preventing Violence in Schools and Communities Preventing Violent Behaviors-Mental Health Interventions The Role of Schools How to Intervene: What Programs Work? What Are the Issues? Evidence-Based Interventions Conclusion Appendixes Exhibit 1-Model and Promising Programs Exhibit 2-Evidence-Based Programs That Foster Resilience Exhibit 3-Exemplary, Model, and Promising Programs to Strengthen Families Bibliography |
Model and promising resilience-enhancing and violence prevention programs
have been identified by several different organizations, both governmental
and nongovernmental. The following section describes the publications
that these organizations provide. It should be emphasized that not all
use the same standards of evidence-based criteria to judge the soundness
of the programs that are recommended. B. United States Department
of Justice, Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, Whats Promising
The most recent lists of DOJ model and promising programs are updated
regularly at the University of Maryland Web site,
Forty-five research-based parenting and family intervention models were
selected by CSAP for grants to increase the capacity of communities to
deliver best practices in effective parenting and family programs (see
Exhibit III). Another resource for communities and schools is Understanding
Substance Abuse PreventionToward the 21st Century: A Primer on Effective
Programs. This publication, as well as the most up-to-date list of CSAP
model programs, may be viewed at the Web site of the Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration, http://www.samhsa.gov/csap. D. National Association
of School Psychologists Exemplary Mental Health Programs: School
Psychologists as Mental Health Service Providers
A list of NASP-recommended programs may be obtained from the National Association of School Psychologists, Director of Professional Information and Communication, 4340 East West Highway, Suite 402, Bethesda, MD 20814. Phone (301) 657-0270. http://www.naspweb.org.
Each of these programs was required to meet rigorous selection criteria, including an experimental design, evidence of a statistically significant deterrent effect, replication in at least one additional site with experimental design and demonstrated effects, and evidence that the deterrent effect was sustained for at least one year posttreatment. According to Elliott, these high standards reflect the level of confidence needed to build a violence prevention initiative, with the objective of allowing communities to implement these programs with the confidence of effectiveness in deterring violence, if implemented with integrity. See Exhibit I for a list of CSPV model and promising programs. Additional information can also be obtained from the CSPV Web site, http://www.colorado.edu/cspv.
The guide lists programs that have demonstrated significant effects on
risk and protective factors in controlled studies or community trials
and some that have also shown positive effects on health and behavior
problems. G. Center for Mental Health
Services, Literature on the Development of Resilience
Detection/Treatment of Mental Illness
Alcohol and
Other Drug Abuse
Access to Mental Health/Health Services
Post-Intervention
Additional information may be obtained from the Suicide Prevention Advocacy
Network, 5034 Odins Way, Marietta, GA 30068. Phone (888) 649-1366.
http://www.spanusa.org. J. United States General
Accounting Office
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