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This directory provides an overview of currently available evidence-based parenting programs and is intended to serve the needs of parent educators, family practitioners, program planners and others looking for effective programs to implement with parents and families. Evidenced-based parenting programs (a subset of the larger body of evidence-based programs) have been specifically developed to strengthen families, prevent youth and family problems and promote family and child well-being. These programs have been rigorously evaluated and have demonstrated scientific evidence of improving child, parent and/or family functioning.
There are numerous advantages to adopting and implementing evidence-based parenting programs (EBPPs). First and most importantly, EBPPs, when implemented appropriately, have been certified to have a high likelihood of producing positive impacts on the issues they target. From a fiscal standpoint, the adoption and implementation of evidence-based parenting programs can help organizations obtain and sustain program funding. Not only do funders increasingly want to invest their dollars in programs that have scientifically demonstrated their effectiveness, but the public also wants to know that tax dollars are being spent on programs and services that actually work. A related advantage to implementing EBPPs is that they are more likely than other programs to have undergone analyses on their costs and benefits. Increasingly, information is available to indicate that the financial benefits of an EBPP outweigh its costs. This information can be very influential in an era where accountability and economic factors often drive public policy and funding decisions. An additional advantage to implementing EBPPs is the efficiency associated with their use. Instead of putting resources toward program development, organizations can select from the growing number of EBPPs, which are known to be effective and often offer well-packaged program materials, staff training, and technical assistance. To this end, EBPPs enable limited resources to be used wisely.
In order for a program to be included in this directory it had to meet several criteria. At a minimum, a significant component of the program had to focus on parent education or parent training and the program must have met accepted empirical standards for an evidence-based program. In addition, the program must have been listed on at least one or more national registries of evidence-based programs.
Knowing that a program has undergone rigorous testing and evaluation can reassure potential program sponsors that the program is likely to be effective under the right conditions and with the appropriate audience. However, knowing which program is the “right” one for a particular setting and audience is not always easy to determine. There are a number of critical factors that planners need to consider when selecting a program for their organization and audience. For those interested in guidelines to assist in the task of selecting an appropriate evidence-based parenting please see the What Works Research to Action Brief: “Guidelines for Selecting an Evidence Based Program”.
This directory is organized into two sections. The first section includes programs where parent education/training is the sole focus of the program. Programs in this section are further divided into two additional categories: programs designed to serve a single age range and programs designed to accommodate multiple age ranges. Some programs have been specifically developed for a particular stage of childhood such as early adolescence or the preschool years. Other programs have expanded beyond one stage of childhood and include curriculum components that address parenting issue at more than one developmental stage.
For the majority of the multi-component programs listed, the parenting component must be used in combination with other program components in order to insure effectiveness. However, there are some exceptions. When choosing a multi-component program it is important to look carefully at the program description and evaluation results to determine whether it is appropriate to use the parenting component of the program alone.
The following list is divided into two broad approaches to parenting programming: Parenting programs where parent training/education is the sole component of the program and programs where parent training/education is part of a multi-component program. Each of these approaches has strengths and weakness and needs to be carefully matched to intended outcome or usefulness of the program.
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Targeted Age of Child: Prenatal to age 2
Targeted Audience: First-time pregnant low-income mothers of any age.
Effectiveness Within Racial/Ethnic Groups, Gender and Settings:
Program Description: This program strives to improve overall family functioning through improved prenatal health resulting in healthier pregnancies and infants, improved care to infants and toddlers in the interest of optimal health and development and improved personal, health and vocational development on the part of parent(s).
Evaluated Outcomes:
Number of Sessions and Format:
Staffing: Home visits must be conducted by nurses for the program to be effective.
Cost: High
Registry Listings: OJJDP, HAY, Blueprints
Contact Information:
Nurse-Family Partnership
National Office
1900 Grant Street, Suite 400
Denver, CO 80203
Phone: 866-864-5226
Fax: 303-327-4260
Email: info@nursefamilypartnership.org
Web site: www.nursefamilypartnership.org/
Targeted Age of Child: 0 to 5
Targeted Audience: Primarily, but not limited to, low-income at-risk families
Effectiveness Within Racial/Ethnic Groups, Gender and Settings:
Program Description: This program seeks to promote school readiness by working with parents and their children birth through age 5. It includes in-home visits by certified parent educators, parent group meetings, periodic developmental screenings and links to community resources.
Evaluated Outcomes:
Number of Sessions and Format:
Staffing: Certified parent educators
Cost: N/A
Registry Listings: OJJDP
Contact Information:
Parents as Teachers National Center
2228 Ball Drive
St. Louis, Missouri 63146
United States
Phone 314-432-4330
Fax 314-432-8963
Email: info@patnc.org
Web site: http://www.parentsasteachers.org
Targeted Age of Child: 0-3
Targeted Audience: Low-income families where mothers are the primary caregiver
Effectiveness Within Racial/Ethnic Groups, Gender and Settings:
Program Description: This program is designed to provide full range of personal and parenting support to low-income mothers including knowledge of child development, improved family communication and interaction skills, home management training, exposure to community resources and continuing education classes. External supports are provided in the form of transportation to classes, some meals, health/social services, programs for siblings and small stipend.
Evaluated Outcomes:
Number of Sessions and format:
Staffing: Use of paraprofessional parent educators and visiting nurses
Cost: High
Registry Listings: OJJDP, HAY
Contact Information:
Dale L. Johnson, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204-5341
Phone: 505-758-7962
Fax: 713-743-8633
Email: dljohnson@uh.edu
Targeted Age of Child: 6-12
Targeted Audience: Recently separated single mothers whose children are at risk of internalizing and externalizing conduct disorders
Effectiveness Within Racial/Ethnic Groups, Gender and Settings:
Program Description: This program is designed to prevent internalizing (e.g. anxiety, depression) and externalizing behaviors (e.g. delinquency, violence) and promote healthy child adjustment by teaching parents effective parenting practices including encouragement, limit setting, problem-solving, monitoring and positive involvement. The program incorporates the demonstration of strategies to decrease coercive exchanges with children and teach use of positive reinforcement to promote prosocial behavior.
Evaluated Outcomes:
Number of Sessions and Format: 14 weekly group sessions
Staffing: Session conducted by two trained group facilitators
Cost: High
Registry Listings: SAMHSA
Contact Information:
Marion S. Forgatch, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Implementation Sciences International, Inc.
2852 Willamette Street, #172
Eugene, OR 97405
Phone: 541-485-2711
Fax: 541-338-9963
Email: marionf@oslc.org
Targeted Age of Child: 4-7
Targeted Audience: Any family with children in this age range
Effectiveness Within Racial/Ethnic Groups, Gender and Settings:
Program Description: The program is designed to teach parents to use interpersonal cognitive problem-solving skills to facilitate the growth of thinking skills in children and to increase parent sensitivity to their own as well as their children’s feelings.
Evaluated Outcomes:
Number of Sessions and Format:
Staffing: Leadership by trained parent educators
Cost: Medium
Registry Listings: OJJDP
Contact Information:
Myrna B. Shure, Ph.D.
Drexel University, Dept. of Psychology
245 North 15th Street, Mail Stop 626
Philadelphia, PA 19102
Phone: 215-762-7205
Fax: 215-762-8625
Email: mshure@drexel.edu
Targeted Age of Child: 9-17
Targeted Audience: Youth and families in high risk environments
Effectiveness Within Racial/Ethnic Groups, Gender and Settings:
Program Description: This program emphasizes family strengthening in an effort to increase both parent and child resiliency, reduce adolescent ATOD use and provide on-going community support to youth and families.
Evaluated Outcomes:
Number of Sessions and Format:
Staffing:
Cost: High
Registry Listings: SAMHSA, OJJDP, HAY
Contact Information:
Ted N. Strader
COPES, Inc.
845 Barret Avenue
Louisville, KY 40204
Phone: 502-583-6820
Fax: 502-583-6832
Email: tstrader@sprynet.com
Web site: http://www.copes.org
Targeted Age of Child: 11-14
Targeted Audience: All families with children in early adolescence or entering middle school
Effectiveness Within Racial/Ethnic Groups, Gender and Settings:
Program Description: This is a family based substance abuse prevention program which emphasizes general life and social resistance skills.
Evaluated Outcomes:
Number of Sessions and Format:
Staffing: No specific training or staffing requirements
Cost: Medium
Registry Listings: OJJDP, HAY
Contact Information:
Michael H. Popkin, Ph.D.
Active Parenting Publishers
1955 Vaughn Road NW, Suite 108
Kennesaw, GA 30144-7808
Phone: 800-825-0060
Fax: 770-429-0334
Email: cservice@activeparenting.com
Web site: http://www.activeparenting.com/xfia.htm
Targeted Age of Child: 12-14
Targeted Audience: All families with children in early adolescence
Effectiveness Within Racial/Ethnic Groups, Gender and Settings:
Program Description: This is a family-directed program administered through mailed booklets and designed to reduce ATOD use. The program is designed to enhance general parenting skills applicable for this age group as well as family attributes that contribute to reduced substance use.
Evaluated Outcomes:
Number of Sessions and Format:
Staffing:
Cost: Low - Program booklets, Health Educator Training Manual, recruitment and program evaluation materials are all available at no cost from the program website.
Registry Listings: SAMHSA, OJJDP, HAY
Contact Information:
Karl E. Bauman, Ph.D.
116 Nolen Lane
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
Email: kbauman@mindspring.com
Web site: http://familymatters.sph.unc.edu/introduction.htm
Targeted Age of Child: 9-14
Targeted Audience: All families with children in this age range
Effectiveness Within Racial/Ethnic Groups, Gender and Settings:
Program Description: This program was designed to provide parents with the necessary knowledge and skills to guide children through early adolescence in an effort to promote drug resistance and prevent anti-social behavior.
Evaluated Outcomes:
Number of Sessions and Format:
Staffing:
Cost: Medium
Registry listings: SAHMSA, OJJDP, HAY
Contact Information:
Prevention Science Customer Center Service Representative
Channing Bete Company
One Community Place
South Deerfield, MA 01373
Phone: 800-477-4776
Fax: 800-499-6464
Email: custsvcs@channing-bete.com
Web site: http://www.channing-bete.com/prevention-programs/guiding-good-choices
Targeted Age of Child: 11-18
Targeted Audience: Adolescents with drug and behavior problems and their families.
Effectiveness Within Racial/Ethnic Groups, Gender and Settings:
Program Description: This program seeks to reduce or eliminate adolescents' substance abuse and other problem behavior, while improving the overall functioning of their families. The program strives to improve adolescent functioning within peer groups, school and the family. It simultaneously strives to facilitate parental commitment and investment in the adolescent in an effort to improve the overall relationship and communication between parent and child.
Evaluated Outcomes:
Number of Sessions and Format:
Staffing: Master's level therapist
Cost: High
Registry Listings: OJJDP, SAMHSA
Contact Information:
Howard A. Liddle
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
Treatment Research on Adolescent Drug Abuse
University of Miami
School of Medical Center
1400 10th Avenue NW, 11th Floor, Mail Stop M-711
Miami, FL 33136
Phone: 305-243-6434
Fax: 305-243-3651
Email: hliddle@med.miami.edu
Web site: http://www.hhs.gov/ophs/
Targeted Age of Child: 11-15
Target Audience: Youth in this age range and their families
Effectiveness Within Racial/Ethnic Groups, Gender and Settings:
Program Description: The goal of the program is to motivate youth to postpone alcohol use until adulthood.
Evaluated Outcomes:
Number of Sessions and Format:
Staffing: Trained health care provider to provide annual consultation.
Cost: Low
Registry Listings: OJJDP, HAY
Contact Information:
Paula Jones
NIMCO, Inc.
102 Highway 81 North, P.O. Box 9
Calhoun, KY 42327-0009
Phone: 800-962-6662
Email: Paula@nimcoinc.com
Web site: http://www.nimcoinc.com/
Targeted Age of Child: 10-14
Targeted Audience: All Families with children in this age range
Effectiveness Within Racial/Ethnic Groups, Gender and Settings:
Program Description: This program is designed to improve nurturing and child management skills on the part of parents while also enhancing interpersonal and personal competencies for youth.
Evaluated Outcomes:
Number of Sessions and Format:
Staffing: Sessions led by trained group leaders
Cost: High
Registry Listings: OJJDP, HAY
Contact Information:
Catherine Webb
Partnerships in Prevention Science Institute
Iowa State University
2625 North Loop Drive, Suite 500
Ames, Iowa 50010
Phone: 515-294-1426
Fax: 515-294-3613
Email: cwebb@iastate.edu
Web site: http://www.extension.iastate.edu/sfpII
Targeted Age of Child: 10-18
Targeted Audience: Pre-teens and teens with identified/diagnosed issues with aggression/violence, conduct disorder, delinquency, and/or substance abuse.
Effectiveness Within Racial/Ethnic Groups, Gender and Settings:
Program Description: Using a combination of group and family therapy this program strives to rejuvenate the child/parent relationship by teaching skills to re-build and restructure a mutually nurturing relationship while simultaneously providing the parent(s) with tools and strategies to set limits, maintain discipline and ensure the safety and well being of their adolescent child(ren).
Evaluated Outcomes:
Number of Sessions and Format:
Staffing: Group facilitators must be master's level certified therapists. Case loads should consist of 10-20 families for high risk youth or 25-35 families for low to medium risk youth. Co-facilitators may be bachelor's level in a human services or therapy related field, however they must be supervised by a master's level therapist.
Cost: High
Registry Listings: SAMHSA, OJJDP, HAY
Contact Information:
Diana L. Bala
Marketing Director
Savannah Family Institute, Inc.
P.O. Box 30381
Savannah, GA 31410
Phone: 800-735-9525
Fax: 912-727-2847
Email: diana@gopll.com
Web site: http://www.gopll.com
Targeted Age of Child: Programs for birth to 5, children 5-11, teens 12-18
Targeted Audience: Families at risk for abuse and neglect
Effectiveness Within Racial/Ethnic Groups, Gender and Settings:
Program Description: The purpose of this program is to teach parents age appropriate developmental expectations and nurturing non-violent discipline strategies as well as to develop empathy, self-esteem, empowerment and positive patterns of communication for both parents and children.
Evaluated Outcomes:
Number of Sessions and Format:
Staffing: Trained facilitator
Cost: Medium
Registry Listings: OJJDP, CWCH
Contact Information:
Dr. Stephen J. Bavolek
Family Development Resources, Inc.
3070 Rasmussen Road, Suite 190
Park City, UT 84098
Phone: 800-688-5822
Fax: 435-649-9599
Web site: http://www.nurturingparenting.com/
Targeted Age of Child: Versions for elementary (6-11), early adolescence (12-14) and adolescence (15-18)
Targeted Audience: Hard to reach at-risk families
Effectiveness Within Racial/Ethnic Groups, Gender and Settings:
Program Description: This self-administered interactive computer based program is designed to improve the parent-child relationship, enhance family communication, reduce behavior problems, and build family unity.
Evaluated Outcomes:
Number of Sessions and Format:
Staffing: Anyone who can use a computer
Other: Program includes family workbook. Video tapes and DVDs can be purchased for use within other parenting education programs, as well.
Cost: Medium
Registry Listings: OJJDP, HAY, CWCH
Contact Information:
Donald A. Gordon, Ph.D.
Family Works, Inc.
34 West State Street, Room 135B, Unit 8
Athens, OH 45701-3751
Phone: 866-234-9473
Fax: 541-482-2829
Email: familyworks@familyworksinc.com
Web site: http://www.familyworksinc.com
Targeted Age of Child: Separate Versions for 3-5, 6-12, 10-14 (also see above), 13-17
Targeted Audience: All parents with children in the correct age range
Effectiveness Within Racial/Ethnic Groups, Gender and Settings:
Program Description: This program is designed to teach and enhance parenting skills such as nurturing, rule setting, appropriate discipline, and monitoring compliance. Children are taught skills including goal setting, anger control, communication, responsible behavior, and peer resistance.
Evaluated Outcomes:
Number of Sessions and Format:
Staffing: Sessions led by trained group leaders
Cost: High
Registry Listings: OJJDP, HAY
Contact Information:
Karol Kumpfer, Ph.D.
Department of Health Promotion and Education
21901 East South Campus Drive, Room 2142
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Phone: 801-581-7718
Fax: 801-581-5872
Email: kkumpfer@xmission.com
Web site: http://www.strengtheningfamiliesprogram.org/index.html
Targeted Age of Child: Triple P has program components targeting five different developmental periods from infancy to adolescence.
Targeted Audience: The program has components appropriate for multiple levels of intervention intensity from media campaigns to universal programming. Components are designed to meet programmatic needs ranging from programming appropriate for all families to families with children at risk or exhibiting behavioral issues such as conduct disorder or oppositional children. These components can be used independently of one another.
Effectiveness Within Racial/Ethnic Groups, Gender and Settings:
Program Description: Overall aims of the program include promotion of independent, healthy families through enhancement of parental knowledge, skills and confidence, promotion of healthy development, and social competency for children and facilitation of the development of non-violent, nurturing environments for children. The program encompasses 5 levels of increasing strength. Level 1 is designed to be a universal media based parent information strategy to build community awareness of parenting needs and resources and to encourage parental participation. Level 2 is a brief intervention (1 or 2 session) that seeks to provide anticipatory developmental guidance to parents of children with mild behavioral difficulties. Level 3 (4 sessions) focuses on children with mild to moderate behavioral difficulties and includes active parental skills training. Level 4 (8-10 sessions) targets families with children with more severe behavior difficulties and can be conduct individually, in a group setting or through a self-directed curriculum. Level 5 is designed for families where parenting difficulties are compounded by other sources of family distress (relationship conflict, depression etc.) and includes enhanced therapeutic behavioral family intervention.
Evaluated Outcomes:
Number of Sessions and Format:
Staffing: Staffing needs depend on level of programming: Level 1 requires media experience, Level 2 volunteer group leaders, Level 3 and 4 parent educators, Level 5 therapists
Cost: Low to Medium to High depending on the level and the number of programming materials needed.
Registry Listings: CWCH
Contact Information:
Triple P America
4840 Forest Drive #308
Columbia, SC 29206
Phone: 803-787-9944
Fax: 803-787-9941
Email: triplepa@bellsouth.net
Web site: http://www.triplep-america.com/
Targeted Age of Child: 2-5, Follow-up Components for grades 3-5, 6-8 and HS
Targeted Audience: All Families and children, particularly those high-risk families at risk of ATOD use and future violence
Effectiveness Within Racial/Ethnic Groups, Gender and Settings:
Program Description: This program’s objectives focus on child development/advancement including resiliency skills particularly social and problem solving skills, competency development and self-responsibility as well as parent training to develop nurturing, parental self-efficacy and positive limit setting.
Evaluated Outcomes:
Number of Sessions and Format:
Staffing: This program has a 15-20 hour training which teaches community mobilization and how to use the curriculum.
Cost: High
Registry Listings: OJJDP, SAMHSA, HAY
Contact Information:
Jan Miller-Heyl, M. S.
Colorado State University
215 North Linden, Suite E
Cortez, CO 81321
Phone: 970-565-3606
Fax: 970-565-4641
Email: director@coop.ext.colostate.edu
Web site: http://www.coopext.colostate.edu/DTBY/
Targeted Age of Child: 6-12
Targeted Audience: Students who are at high risk for early development of conduct problems (aggressive, disruptive, non-conformist) and their parents
Effectiveness Within Racial/Ethnic Groups, Gender and Settings:
Program Description: The program is designed to provide early, comprehensive and sustained intervention with child, home, and school which includes parent training, family support, educational enrichment, child social skills training, parent-school consultation and contingency management of problem behavior
Evaluated Outcomes:
Number of Sessions and Format:
Child Focused
Family Focused
Staffing: Programming led by certified “family advocates” with a bachelor’s degree and 3-5 years experience working with families. One “family advocate” per 25 families.
Cost: High
Registry Listings: SAMHSA, OJJDP, HAY
Contact Information:
Early Risers "Skills for Success"
Gerald J. August, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
F256/2B West
2450 Riverside Avenue
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55454-1495
Phone: 612-273-9711
Fax: 612-273-9779
Email: augus001@tc.umn.edu
Web site: http://www.psychiatry.umn.edu/psychiatry/research/earlyrisers/home.html
Targeted Age of Child: 4-12
Targeted Audience: Children identified by teachers and other school professionals as exhibiting problem behaviors which put them at risk for future academic and social problems.
Effectiveness Within Racial/Ethnic Groups, Gender and Settings:
Program Description: FAST emphasizes a positive non-stigmatizing approach to strengthening the whole family through empowerment of parents and the building of supportive parent-to-parent groups. FAST consists of multi-family group meetings offered in the school and conducted by school specialists in an effort to build collaboration between the school and parents. Programmatic goals include prevention of future school failure and substance use, enhancement of family functioning and stress reduction through the building of family social support structures and resource use.
Evaluated Outcomes:
Number of Sessions and Format:
Staffing: Multi-family group meetings are staffed by multiple facilitators including a school staff member such as a social worker, counselor, psychologist or principal; a parent, liaison worker or FAST facilitator; an ATOD prevention specialist; and a mental health professional. Parents are solicited by trained FAST recruiters. Families lead the follow-up sessions.
Cost: High
Registry Listings: HAY, OJJDP
Contact Information:
Families and Schools Together Inc.
2801 International Lane
Madison, WI 53704-3151
Phone: 608-663-2382
Toll Free: 888-629-2481
Fax: 608-663-2336
Email: answers@familiesandschools.org
Web site: http://familiesandschools.org
Targeted Age of Child: Extends from 1st through 10th grade. Intensity of the intervention increases during the transitional periods of school entry and movement from elementary to middle school.
Targeted Audience: Kindergarten children identified by their teachers and parents as having elevated conduct problems manifested by disruptive behavior and poor peer relations at school entry and who are therefore at risk for conduct disorder and other negative outcomes in adolescence, including school drop-out and delinquency.
Effectiveness Within Racial/Ethnic Groups, Gender and Settings:
Program Description: The program is designed to target the child within many contexts and through many sources of influence over a substantial time in an effort to improve child competencies, parenting effectiveness, school context, relationship with teachers and home-school communications.
Evaluated Outcomes:
Number of Sessions and Format:
Elementary School PhaseCost: N/A
Registry Listings: OJJDP, HAY
Contact Information:
Mark T. Greenberg, Ph.D.
110 Henderson Building South
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802-6504
Phone: 814-863-0112
Fax: 814-865-2530
Email: prevention@psu.edu
Web site: http://www.fasttrackproject.org/
Targeted Age of Child: 2-10
Targeted Audience: All families with children in this age range. Primary emphasis is on children at-risk for or displaying conduct disorders.
Effectiveness Within Racial/Ethnic Groups, Gender and Settings:
Program Description: Parent, school and child components are designed to work together to promote emotional and social competence and to prevent, reduce and/or treat behavioral and emotional problems in children.
Evaluated Outcomes:
Number of Sessions and Format:
Other: Components have demonstrated effectiveness with children's characteristics at home and school when used independently of one another. Parent training alone did not affect classroom management, but any combination of the other programs alone and together with parent training did. Only combined parent and teacher training resulted in parent bonding with school.
Staffing: Group leaders should have professional training and experience working with children and/or families. Group leader training highly recommended.
Cost: High
Registry Listings: SAMHSA, OJJDP, Blueprints, CWCH, HAY
Contact Information:
Lisa St. George
Administrative Director
Incredible Years
1411 Eighth Avenue, West
Seattle, WA 98119
Phone: 888-506-3562
Fax: 888-506-3562
Email: lisastgeorge@comcast.net
Web site: http://www.incredibleyears.com
Targeted Age of Child: Primary School, Ages 6-11
Targeted Audience: For use with 1st through 5th grade students and their families who are at-risk by virtue of residing in neighborhoods with high rates of juvenile delinquency.
Effectiveness Within Racial/Ethnic Groups, Gender and Settings:
Program Description: Prevention of conduct problems including aggression and antisocial behaviors.
Evaluated Outcomes:
Number of Sessions and Format:
Staffing: N/A
Cost: N/A
Registry Listings: LJJDP, HAY, Blueprints
Contact Information:
John B. Reid, Ph.D.
Oregon Social Learning Center
160 East Fourth Avenue
Eugene, OR 97401
Phone: 541-485-2711
Fax: 541-485-7087
Email: Email:johnr@oslc.org
Web site: http://www.oslc.org/ (This is a website for the organization that developed the program not the program itself.)
Targeted Age of Child: Child (6-12), adolescent (13-18)
Targeted Audience: This program can be used universally for all children and families within the specific age range or to target at-risk children and families.
Effectiveness Within Racial/Ethnic Groups, Gender and Settings:
Program Description: Positive Action, multiple components, geared for family, school and community, can be used independently or in conjunction with one another. Components seek to target family bonding and conflict, improve academic achievement and school bonding, and support avoidance of problem behaviors (e.g. substance use, violence, sexual behavior, and disruptive behaviors). The underlying premise of this program is that taking positive action results in positive feelings about oneself.
Evaluated Outcomes:
Number of Sessions and Format:
Staffing: No specialized staffing or training needs
Cost: Low (for family segment alone)
Registry Listings: SAMHSA
Contact Information:
Keri Metzger
Administrative Assistant
Positive Action Inc.
Phone: 800-354-2974 Ext. 100
Fax: 208-733-1590
Email: keri@positiveaction.net
Web site: http://www.positiveaction.net
Targeted Age of Child: 7-9
Targeted Audience: Aggressive males assessed as exhibiting high levels of disruptive behaviors in kindergarten
Effectiveness Within Racial/Ethnic Groups, Gender and Settings:
Program Description: This program is designed to reduce both short and long term anti-social behavior.
Evaluated Outcomes:
Immediate Effects
Three years post-intervention
Number of Sessions and Format:
Parent Training Component
School Based Component
Staffing: N/A
Cost: N/A
Registry Listings: OJJDP, HAY, Blueprints (Promising)
Contact Information:
Richard E. Tremblay, Ph.D.
University of Montreal, GRIP
3050 Edouard Monpetit
Montreal, Quebec H3T 1J7
Phone: 514-343-6963
Fax: 514-343-6962
Email: grip@umontreal.ca
Web site: http://www.gripinfo.ca/Grip/Public/www/ (This is a web site for the organization that developed the program not for the program itself.)
Targeted Age of Child: 5 and 6 year olds
Targeted Audience: Children entering first grade who are at high risk for school failure and anti-social behavior as well as their families
Effectiveness Within Racial/Ethnic Groups, Gender and Settings:
Program Description: This program is designed to help families gain parenting skills to facilitate their children’s academic and social adjustment and growth, thereby promoting competence in those areas and reducing risk for later problem behaviors.
Evaluated Outcomes:
Number of Sessions and Format:
Family Group Meetings
Academic Support
Staffing: Parenting Component - N/A
Tutors - undergraduate college students with 20 hours of training and weekly group supervision
Cost: N/A
Registry Listings: OJJDP, HAY
Contact Information:
Patrick Tolan, Ph.D.
Institute for Juvenile Research
1747 W. Roosevelt Road
Department of Psychiatry
Chicago, IL 60608
Phone: 312-413-1893
Fax: 312-413-1703
Email: Tolan@uic.edu
Web site: http://www.psych.uic.edu/fcrg/index.html
