Blueprints violence prevention programs

Communities seeking to reduce juvenile violence have a new and practical alternative to building more prisons, according to the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The programs will be made available to communities across the nation through a series of 10 handbooks called "Blueprints for Violence Prevention. The first two "Blueprints" are available and all 10 will be published within a year. Researchers from a variety of organizations evaluated the hundreds of violence prevention programs by a set of strict criteria including documented evidence in reducing violence, criminal activity or substance abuse.

All three types of behavior are tightly linked with each other and programs effective in deterring any one of these behaviors are likely to be effective for the others as well. In doing so, Blueprints serves as a resource for governments, foundations, businesses, and other organizations trying to make informed judgments about their investments in violence and drug prevention programs. On CrimeSolutions. Easily understandable ratings based on the evidence that indicates whether a program achieves its goals.

School-based programs designed to provide students with the credentials and skills needed to make successful transitions to post-secondary education and careers.

A two-generation home visitation program which works to heal and protect young children and their families from the devastating effects of chronic stress and trauma. It provides psycho-therapeutic services and intensive care coordination, while building adult reflective and executive capacity, to prevent or diminish serious emotional disturbance, developmental and learning disabilities, and abuse and neglect among young children. A multi-session group intervention that aims to reduce children's post-traumatic stress disorder PTSD symptoms, as well as anxiety and depression resulting from exposure to violence, through child, parent, and teacher educational sessions.

A prevention system designed to reduce levels of adolescent delinquency and substance use through the selection and use of effective preventative interventions tailored to a community's specific profile of risk and protection. A preventative group intervention designed to reduce aggressive attitudes and behaviors and prevent substance abuse among at-risk children in the late elementary to early middle school years.

A coalition of public, private and non-profit agencies that provide intensive supervision, substance abuse treatment and comprehensive judicial monitoring to offenders whose crimes are non-violent and related to substance abuse to facilitate their integration back into a healthy community.

A four-unit program to help first-year college women resist acquaintance sexual assault by providing them with information and resistance training. A literacy-focused curriculum and support system designed for preschool children ages 3, 4, and 5 years old.

The program is designed to enhance existing classroom curricula by specifically focusing on improving children's early literacy skills and knowledge. An alcohol prevention program designed to reduce teenage alcohol use through parent training.

A youth development program providing education, service, and development activities to improve academic skills and increase high school completion and post-secondary attainment of high-risk youth from socioeconomically disadvantaged families and impoverished neighborhoods.

A parental information program aimed at improving student attendance in elementary, middle, and high school by targeting parental misconceptions about the importance of regular attendance through mail-based communications. A parent training program that aims to prevent conduct problems among at-risk toddlers by improving the quality of parenting and increasing and maintaining parents' use of positive behavior support.

A universal prevention program to improve mother, child, and birth outcomes through promoting coparenting quality among couples who are expecting their first child.

Fraction Face-Off! A week math tutoring program to improve the understanding of fractions for at-risk 4th graders through increased instruction on measurement interpretation of fractions. A classroom behavior management game providing a strategy to help elementary teachers reduce aggressive, disruptive behavior and other behavioral problems in children, particularly highly aggressive children, while creating a positive and effective learning environment.

A group parent training program designed to improve parenting skills, manage family problems, and enhance positive family relationships, ultimately to prevent problem behavior among youth. A family competency training program that aims to enhance parenting behaviors and skills, to enhance effective child management behaviors and parent-child interactions and bonding, to teach children skills to resist peer influence, and to reduce adolescent problem behaviors.

An enrichment program for low-income preschoolers and their families that supplements the Head Start preschool program. A preschool program that builds cognitive skills and attitudes for school success and aims to prevent adolescent delinquency and school dropout in the long term. A program for high school girls aimed at reducing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. A group-based parenting program delivered in weekly sessions over months that strengthens parent competencies to promote young children's social, emotional, and academic competence and prevent the development of conduct problems.

A program that provides teachers of children ages years with classroom management strategies positive and proactive teaching techniques, positive teacher-student relationships, and supportive teacher-parent relationships to manage difficult and inappropriate child behavior problems, while promoting social, emotional, and academic competence. A child treatment program used by counselors and therapists in a small group setting to treat children ages years with conduct problems, ADHD, and internalizing problems by enhancing social competence, positive peer interactions, conflict management strategies, emotional literacy, and anger management.

The small group treatment program is delivered in weekly 2-hour sessions. A brief prevention program to improve physical, mental, and spiritual well-being of college students by connecting positive health habits and images with the avoidance of risky alcohol, tobacco, marijuana and other drug use. An 8-week in-school program designed to reduce and prevent depressive symptoms in adolescents by improving communication skills and interpersonal relationships.

A six-session group-based intervention, facilitated by paraprofessionals, for youth in foster care as they transition to middle school. The program aims to prevent internalizing and externalizing problems that may lead to more serious longer term outcomes such as delinquency, substance use, and high-risk sexual behavior. Foster parents also attend a six-session program. An anti-bullying program for grades with 20 hours of student lessons. Primarily implemented in Europe, the program aims to improve mental health outcomes in addition to reducing bullying.

A community-based program that assists young people with histories of foster care or juvenile justice involvement in making a successful transition to adulthood by providing intensive, individualized, and clinically focused case management, support, and counseling. Specific goals include improved family relationships, increased high school graduation, decreased illicit substance use, and decreased intimate partner violence.

A school-based program designed to improve children's vocabulary, narrative skills, active listening, and confidence in independent speaking. A policing program designed to reduce violence at violent-crime hot spots by proactively targeting repeat offenders. A multi-level bullying prevention program designed to reduce and prevent school bullying in elementary, middle, and high schools. A school-based program designed to improve reading ability among elementary school students by providing teachers with training, professional development, and a research-based curriculum.

Online program to reduce social anxiety in university students. A program designed for children and their parents that focuses on decreasing child behavior problems, increasing positive parent behaviors, and improving the quality of the parent-child relationship.

A class-wide peer tutoring program for elementary school students to improve reading and mathematics skills of students through guided peer-assisted learning strategies.

A two-year school-based health behavior intervention designed to reduce obesity among students in grades by increasing energy expenditure while promoting key dietary behaviors. A family-based, 3-tiered intervention that aims to reduce problem behavior and risk for substance abuse and depression and improve family management practices and communication skills, as well as adolescents' self-regulation skills and prosocial behaviors. A comprehensive school-based sexual health education and teen pregnancy prevention curriculum to improve high school students' communication and negotiation skills that will help them communicate assertively, abstain from sexual intercourse, and use birth control effectively.

A multi-level program designed to reduce teen alcohol use through classroom curricula, peer leadership, youth-driven extra-curricular activities, parent involvement programs, and community activism. A training program for service providers in the use of effective strategies for promoting secure and healthy relationships between caregivers and young children birth to three years of age.

Promoting Health Among Teens! An 8-hour abstinence-based education program to reduce risky sexual behavior for African American youth by providing information on sexual risks and helping teens build negotiation, refusal, and problem solving skills for practicing abstinence. A delivery system that attempts to foster implementation of evidence-based youth and family interventions, complete with ongoing needs assessments, monitoring of implementation quality and partnership functions, and evaluation of intervention outcomes.

A classroom-based program that aims to improve the reading fluency and comprehension of elementary students by utilizing grade-level, high-frequency words that reflect appropriate phonics and syllable patterns.

A preventive intervention with teacher, parent, and child components, designed to promote positive youth development by enhancing protective factors, reducing identified risk factors, and preventing problem behaviors and academic failure. A one-on-one tutoring intervention designed to reduce the number of first-grade students who have extreme difficulty learning to read and write and to reduce the cost of these learners to educational systems. Red Light, Purple Light! A preschool-based program intended to improve behavioral aspects of self-regulation in children through circle time games that target attention, working memory, and inhibitory control.

A session curriculum to reduce risky sexual behavior by teaching adolescents about reproductive anatomy, risk behaviors and consequences, abstinence, and the use of condoms and birth control to prevent HIV, sexually transmitted infections STIs , and pregnancy. An outpatient treatment program to reduce recidivism and promote recovery among justice-involved adults with a serious mental illness.

A ten-session dating abuse prevention program to raise students' awareness of what constitutes healthy and abusive dating relationships, as well as the causes and consequences of dating abuse. A high school reform model that is academically non-selective but provides academically rigorous instruction in small, personalized learning environments Along with smaller size, the model emphasizes real-world relevance and personalized relationships between teachers and students.

A health promotion program that highlights the positive image benefits of an active lifestyle to reduce the use of alcohol, tobacco and drug use by high school students in addition to improving their overall physical health. A supplement to regular reading instruction delivered to elementary school children with Intellectual Disability to develop reading and writing skills that should enable greater academic achievement later in school.

Model Plus. Each intervention certified by Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development has been reviewed by an independent panel of evaluation experts and determined to meet a clear set of rigorous scientific standards. Programs meeting these standards have demonstrated at least some electiveness for changing targeted behavioral outcomes.

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