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Annual Report on School Safety--October 1998
All Stars, for middle and high schools, is a promising model composed of a 22-session curriculum focusing on correcting misperceptions about normative behavior, character development, identifying values and ideals, and commitment to ideals. Parent involvement is encouraged through homework and a parent guide. A preliminary evaluation in which All Stars participants were compared with another program found that All Stars did significantly better in enhancing variables related to decreasing substance use (e.g., commitment, ideals, bonding, and normative beliefs).
Contact: William B. Hansen, Tanglewood Research, 7017 Albert Pick Road, Suite D, Greensboro, NC 27409, 800-826-4539, Fax: 336-662-0099, E-mail: billhansen@tanglewood.net, Web site: www.tanglewood.net/
The Coping Power Program, for middle schools, is a demonstrated model for preventing substance use among boys. Although this intervention uses much of the same material as the Anger Coping Program (see Aggression/ Fighting), it has been extended to 33 small group sessions for students and has 16 sessions for parents. Initial results indicate that the Coping Power program increases aggressive boys' social competence and decreases their substance use.
Contact: John E. Lochman, Professor and Saxon Chair of Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, Box 870348, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, 205-348-5083, Fax: 205-348-8648,
E-mail: jlochman@GP.AS.UA.EDU
Life Skills Training (LST), for grades 7-9, is a demonstrated model for mixed ethnic students with 15 sessions in the seventh grade, ten sessions in the eighth grade, and five sessions in the ninth grade. Students are taught personal self-management skills, general social skills, drug resistance skills, adaptive coping strategies, assertiveness, and decision-making by either adults or peer leaders. LST has reduced excessive drinking and weekly marijuana use.
Contact: Gilbert J. Botvin, Institute for Prevention Research, Cornell University Medical Center, 411 East 69th Street, Room KB 201, New York, NY 10021, 212-746- 1270, E-mail: ipr@mail.med.cornell.edu,
Web Site: www.lifeskillstraining.com
The Midwestern Prevention Project (referred to as Project STAR), for children ages 10-15, is a demonstrated model. Key elements include a two-year social influence curriculum, a mass media intervention, and a parent program that teaches family communication skills and helping children with Project STAR homework. This project has reduced smoking by 40 percent and reduced marijuana and alcohol use by smaller percentages.
Contact: Angela Lapin, Project Manager, Center for Prevention Policy Research, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, 1441 East Lake Avenue, MS 44, Los Angeles, CA 90033-0800, 323- 865-0325
Project ALERT, for grades 6-8, is a demonstrated social resistance skill curriculum for ethnically mixed students that consists of 11 weekly lessons in the sixth or seventh grade and three booster lessons in the seventh or eighth grade. Key components include counteracting beliefs that most people use drugs, developing reasons not to use drugs, identifying the sources of pressures to use drugs, and building a repertoire of skills to resist pro-drug pressures. Parent involvement is encouraged through home learning opportunities. Project ALERT has decreased marijuana and alcohol use among seventh graders, and marijuana and cigarette use among eighth graders.
Contact: Project ALERT, 725 South Figueroa Street, Suite 1615, Los Angeles, CA 90017-5416, 800-253-7810, E-mail: alertplus@aol.com, Web site: www.projectalert.best.org
Project NORTHLAND, for grades 6-8, is a demonstrated multi-level, three-year alcohol use prevention intervention. The program includes alcohol prevention curricula, activities to link students to the community, and parent participation in alcohol education. The project also offers students school-based opportunities for alcohol-free extracurricular activities. At the end of the student's eighth grade year, significantly fewer students in the intervention districts (24 percent of eighth graders) reported using alcohol in the past month than those in the comparison districts (29 percent of eighth graders).
Contacts: To order curricula: Hazelden Publishing Group, P.O. Box 176, Center City, MN 55012, 800-328-9000, Web site: www.hazelden.org. Other questions: Project Northland, University of Minnesota, 1300 South Second Street, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55454-1015, 612-624-1818
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