• Blueprints for Violence Prevention
  http://www.colorado.edu/cspv/blueprints/

  The Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of Colorado at Boulder, with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Justice, launched this site to disseminate information about effective violence prevention and intervention programs. The project has identified 11 model programs that meet a strict scientific standard of program effectiveness. Nineteen other programs have been identified as promising. These interventions have been summarized in a series of "blueprints" that describe their theoretical rationales, core components, evaluation designs and results, and practical implementation experiences across multiple sites.

• CDC/DASH's Programs that Work
  http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dash/rtc/index.htm

  In response to requests from schools for effective prevention programs, the Division of Adolescent and School Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention developed the Programs that Work (PTW) project. Curricula included in the project have been shown to effectively reduce tobacco use and the sexual risk behaviors that contribute to HIV and other sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancy. The website offers a detailed overview of PTW's selection criteria and descriptions of selected programs.

• Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPT): Database of Effective Prevention Programs
  http://www.northeastcapt.org/science/pod/search.asp

  The Northeast CAPT of the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention has created an online, searchable database of effective prevention programs approved by a variety of federal and research agencies. The database allows visitors to compare selection criteria across agencies, review information about the sources those agencies used for their evaluations, and find contact information and descriptions of each intervention.

• CSAP Model Programs
  http://modelprograms.samhsa.gov/

  In 1987, the High-Risk Youth Demonstration Grant Program first began awarding grants to develop innovative programming tailored to the needs of identified subpopulations of youth at high risk for substance abuse. Since then, a comprehensive screening process has been undertaken to identify which of these programs effectively promoted positive youth outcomes. This website provides background information on the problem of youth substance use, brief overviews of and contact information for effective programs, and detailed implementation and evaluation information about model programs.

• SDFS' Exemplary and Promising Programs
  http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osdfs/programs.html

  The U.S. Department of Education's Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program (SDFS) has used an expert panel process to identify programs that should be promoted nationally as promising or exemplary. A 15-member Expert Panel oversaw a valid and reliable process for identifying effective school-based programs that promote healthy students and safe, disciplined, and drug-free schools. Using this process, the panel identified 9 exemplary and 33 promising programs.

For information on how and where a particular research-based program was implemented, contact the program developer. They can direct you to appropriate school contacts.

• Annotated Bibliography of Resources from the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory
  http://www.sedl.org/pubs/catalog/items/pic02.html

  The purpose of the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory is to improve teaching and learning practice. This database of reference materials includes information on educational reform, coherent teaching practice, and improved student learning.

• The Catalog of School Reform Models
  http://www.nwrel.org/scpd/catalog/index.shtml

  This site provides descriptions of 32 "entire school" reform models, plus additional entries on reading/language arts, mathematics, and science reform. Selection criteria include evidence of effectiveness in improving student academic achievement, extent of replication, availability of implementation assistance, and comprehensiveness.

• An Educators' Guide to Schoolwide Reform
  http://www.aasa.org/issues_and_insights/ district_organization/Reform/index.htm

  This guide reviews the research on 24 "whole school," "comprehensive," or "schoolwide" approaches. It rates the different approaches against a common set of standards, compares them in terms of scientifically reliable evidence, and provides detailed information about each. A one-page table summarizes the approaches' relative strengths, and brief profiles describe their key features and provide contact information.

• Comprehensive School Reform
  http://www.ncrel.org/csri/

  The North Central Regional Educational Laboratory provides numerous links to websites and products relevant to comprehensive school reform. Two of these are Comprehensive School Reform: Making Good Choices and Making Good Choices: Districts Take the Lead. The first document presents a three-step strategy for deciding whether comprehensive school reform is a good choice for your school, and, if so, whether one of the existing programs is right for your school. The second presents five components that describe district reform efforts that support, shape, and enrich school improvement, as well as several assessment tools to help identify where your district stands relative to the five components.

• Building a Successful Prevention Program
  http://captus.samhsa.gov/western/resources/bp/index.cfm

  This site, developed and maintained by the Western Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies, describes a seven-step model for prevention: Community Readiness and Mobilization, Needs Assessment, Prioritizing, Resource Assessment, Targeting Efforts, Best Practices, and Evaluation.

• Community ToolBox
  http://ctb.ku.edu/

  The Community ToolBox website, created by the University of Kansas Work Group on Health Promotion and Community Development and AHEC/Community Partners in Amherst, Massachusetts, contains numerous "how to" tools designed to help practitioners with the different tasks necessary for community health and development. There are sections on leadership, needs assessment, community assessment, advocacy, grant writing, and evaluation, including an overview of the strategic planning process.

• Decision Support System
  http://www.preventiondss.org

  This site presents a seven-step model for prevention based on CSAP's logic model for strategic planning, implementation, and evaluation of prevention programs. The logic model is presented as a circular (recursive) process beginning at Assess Needs and progressing through Develop Capacity, Select Programs, Implement Programs, Evaluate Programs, Report Programs, and Get Technical Assistance and Training.

• Drug Information And Decision Support (DIADS) Assessment
  http://education.indiana.edu/cas/diads/diads.html

  Developed by the Center for Adolescent Studies at Indiana University, this brief assessment tool is designed to help prevention planners develop and implement comprehensive programs that will work in their schools. By assessing what a school is currently doing to prevent drug abuse and the levels of support for those activities, DIADS can determine a given program's chance of success.