CONSULTED SOURCES
Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV). In 1996, the CSPV initiated a project to identify prevention programs that met a very high scientific standard of program effectiveness - programs that could provide an initial nucleus for a national violence prevention initiative. CSPV's objectives were to identify truly outstanding programs and to describe these interventions in a series of "blueprints" which describe the theoretical rationale, the core components of the program as implemented, the evaluation designs and results, and the practical experiences programs encountered while implementing the program at multiple sites. Blueprints are designed to be practical descriptions of effective programs that enable states, communities, and individual agencies to: 1) determine the appropriateness of this intervention for their state or community; 2) provide a realistic cost estimate for this intervention; 3) provide an assessment of the organizational capacity needed to ensure this intervention's successful start-up and operation over time; and 4) give some indication of the potential barriers and obstacles that might be encountered when attempting to implement this type of intervention. In addition to the 10 Model programs that met their rigorous selection criteria, 17 programs met some of the criteria and were designated as promising programs. For more information, see website: http://www.colorado.edu/cspv/blueprints/index.html.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Division of Violence Prevention. Youth Violence Prevention: Descriptions and Baseline Data from 13 Evaluation Projects. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, supplement to Volume 12, Number 5, September/October 1996, Oxford University Press. The descriptions include process evaluations of 13 CDC-funded violence prevention programs. For CDC's description of four recently funded youth violence evaluations, see website: http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/evalyv.htm.
Channing Bete Company. Communities that Care Prevention Strategies: A Research Guide to What Works includes prevention strategies that have been tested in well-controlled studies and shown to be effective in reducing risk and enhancing protection against substance abuse, violence, school dropout, and other negative behaviors. To order, call 877-896-8532 or see website: http://www.preventionscience.com.
Drug Strategies. Safe Schools/Safe Students and Making the Grade review and assess violence and drug prevention programs (respectively) created for classroom use and provide practical help in developing school strategies to prevent violence and drug abuse. To order, see website: http://www.drugstrategies.org/pubs.html.
Illinois Council for the Prevention of Violence. Peacing It Together: A Violence Prevention Resource for Illinois Schools includes a guiding framework for considering school-based efforts in violence prevention, criteria for reviewing resources, and brief reviews of more than 150 violence prevention resources including model programs. To order, call 312-986-9200 or e-mail ICPV@aol.com.
National Association of School Psychologists Exemplary Mental Health Programs. Exemplary Mental Health Programs: School Psychologists As Mental Health Providers was published in response to the growing demand by policy makers and school administrators for programs that make a sustained contribution to the development and achievement of children. The programs were selected on the basis of several criteria, including integrating theory, research, and practice; providing a continuum of mental health services; outcomes data; and showing a team-based approach to mental health programming. For more information, see website: http://www.naspweb.org/center/safe_schools/safeschools_violencepre.html.
National Institute of Justice. What Works, What Doesn't, and What's Promising. This book-length report by Lawrence Sherman and colleagues at the University of Maryland provides a rigorous scientific review of more than 500 programs, including family, community, and school-based programs. See website: http://www.ncjrs.org/works/wholedoc.htm.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. The monograph, Understanding Substance Abuse Prevention-Toward the 21st Century: A Primer on Effective Programs, describes a framework for drug abuse prevention and contains brief overviews of model programs.
U.S. Department of Education, Safe, Disciplined, and Drug-Free Schools Expert Panel. The purpose of the Panel was to designate as promising or exemplary school-based programs that have been shown through research to promote safe, disciplined, and drug-free schools. The Department will disseminate information about the designated programs and encourage their use in new sites. See website: http://www.ed.gov/offices/OERI/ORAD/KAD/expert_panel/drug-free.html.
U.S. Departments of Education, Health and Human Services, and Justice. Annual Report on School Safety (1998 and 1999) includes up-to-date statistics on crime and violence in schools as well as information about model programs. Available from the Department of Education or download from website: http://www.air.org/cecp/guide/Default.htm#The Guide.
University of Utah, Department of Health Promotion and Education. Model Family Programs for Delinquency Prevention lists and describes exemplary, model, and promising programs. See website: http://www.strengtheningfamilies.org/.