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| Program | Description | Grade Level | Duration & Intensity | Key Prevention Strategies |
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| Life Skills Training | Substance abuse prevention/ competency enhancement program designed to focus primarily on the major social and psychological factors promoting substance use/abuse | Grades 6-8 or 7-9 | 15 class periods during the first year, 10 booster sessions during the second year, and 5 sessions during the third year | Skills promotion |
| Project Alert | Video-based drug prevention program focusing on substances that adolescents use first and most widely: alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and inhalants | Grades 6-7 or 7-8 | 11 weekly lessons during the first year, 3 booster lessons during the second year | Skills promotion Influencing school and community norms Building school-family-community partnerships |
| Project TNT (Towards No Tobacco Use) | Prevention program designed to delay the initiation and reduce the use of tobacco | Grades 7-8 | 10 lessons, each 40 to 50 minutes, taught over a two-week period during the first year; 2 booster lessons taught in a two-day sequence during the following year | Skills promotion Influencing school and community norms |
| Second Step: A Violence Prevention Curriculum | Violence prevention curriculum that teaches social skills to reduce impulsive and aggressive behavior in children and increase their level of social competence | Pre-K-grade 9 | 20 sessions in 10 to 20 weeks per grade level; 20-50 minutes per session | Skills promotion Building school-family-community partnerships |
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| Aggressors, Victims and Bystanders | Prevention program that aims to prevent or reduce violence by altering patterns of thought and action that lead individuals to become involved in violence | Grades 6, 7, or 8 | 12 classroom sessions, each session no more than one week apart | Skills promotion Influencing school and community norms |
| All Stars | Universal prevention program that uses a character-based approach to preventing high-risk behaviors in teens | Grade 6 or 7, with booster sessions the following year | 21 interactive 45-minute classroom sessions, along with an 8-session booster program | Influencing school and community norms Building school-family-community partnerships |
| Facing History and Ourselves | Violence prevention curriculum that aims to reduce intolerance among young people as they learn to balance self-interest with a genuine interest in the welfare of others | Grades 7-12 | One semester-long unit in social studies, English, art, or history, or an interdisciplinary class | Skills promotion |
| Lions-Quest Skills for Adolescence | Comprehensive life skills and drug prevention curriculum that emphasizes character development, communication, decision-making skills, and service-learning | Grades 6-8 | Eight flexible units with 103 skill-building sessions; this curriculum can be implemented according to a one-, two-, or three-year implementation model | Skills promotion Building school-family-community partnerships |
| Lions-Quest Working Toward Peace | Comprehensive program designed to teach and reinforce a repertoire of anger management and conflict resolution skills | Grade 6, 7, or 8 | 22 core sessions, each 40 to 50 minutes long, and a 6-session basic life skills "skills bank," implemented as a five-week course taught every day or a nine-week course taught every other day | Skills promotion Policy Development and enforcement Building school-family-community partnerships |
| Minnesota Smoking Prevention Project | Curriculum aimed at preventing tobacco use among adolescents through activities that let students experience social support and approval for tobacco-free lifestyles | Grades 6-10 | Six developmentally appropriate classroom sessions, each 45 to 50 minutes in length | Skills promotion Influencing school and community norms |
| PeaceBuilders® | Community-based program launched in schools that shifts the school climate to a peaceful, productive, and safe place for faculty and students and addresses the risk factors that predict violence, bullying, and drug and tobacco use | Grades 6-8 | Ongoing, school- and community-wide through various components; classroom activities are a couple minutes to a half-hour long | Skills promotion Building school-family-community partnerships |
| The Peacemakers Program: Violence Prevention for Students in Grades 4-8 | Violence prevention intervention aiming to reduce aggression among participating youth across a broad spectrum of severity, ranging from hurtful speech to physical fighting to use of weapons | Grades 4-8 | 17 weekly lessons, each 45 minutes in length | Skills promotion |
| Project STAR (Students Taught Awareness and Resistance, also known as the Midwestern Prevention Project) | Drug-abuse prevention program that reaches the entire community with a comprehensive school program, mass media efforts, parent program, community organization, and health policy change | Grades 6-7 or 7-8 | 10-13 classroom sessions in the first year, 5 booster sessions during the following year | Skills promotion Policy Development and enforcement Building school-family-community partnerships |
| Responding in Peaceful and Positive Ways | Primary violence prevention program that works to reduce the incidence of youth violence | Grade 6 or 7 | 25 weekly classroom sessions | Skills promotion Influencing school and community norms |
| Say It Straight Training | Education and training program that produces increased self-awareness, positive relationships, and personal and social responsibility; and decreased risky or destructive behaviors, such as alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use, violence, precocious sexual behavior, and behaviors leading to HIV/AIDS | Grades 3-12 | 5-10 sessions on consecutive days or at least twice a week, each approximately 50 minutes in length | Skills promotion |
| SCARE Program | Anger and aggression management program that teaches young people about emotions, including anger and aggression, and helps them recognize alternatives to violent behavior and aggressive responses | Early adolescence | 15 sessions delivered weekly, twice a week, or daily in 45-50- minute sessions | Skills promotion |
| Students Managing Anger and Resolution Together (SMART) Team | Violence prevention program that uses a multimedia computer instruction program, including interactive interviews, cartoons, game shows, and animation, to teach lessons about anger management, dispute resolution, and perspective-taking | Grades 5-9 | Eight modules used in sequence or independently | Skills promotion |
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