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Programs that Work

View Programs by Outcome Area


Outcome:  Healthy and Safe Children


Proven Programs


The Abecedarian Project

Adolescent Coping with Depression Course

Attachment-Based Family Therapy

Big Brothers Big Sisters of America

Child-Parent Centers

Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS)

Coping with Stress Course

Family Thriving Program

FluText

Guiding Good Choices

Healthy Families New York (HFNY)

HighScope Perry Preschool Program

Incredible Years

LifeSkills Training

Midwestern Prevention Project/Project STAR

Multisystemic Therapy (MST)

National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program

New Hope Project

Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program (NIDCAP)

Nurse Family Partnership

Project ALERT

Project Northland


Promising Programs


Athletes Training and Learning to Avoid Steroids (ATLAS)

Be Proud! Be Responsible!

Child Development Project

Child Sexual Abuse Prevention: Teacher Training Workshop

Cognitive Relaxation Coping Skills

Coping Cat

Counselors Care (CARE)

Creating Lasting Family Connections

Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.)

Get Real About AIDS

Go Grrrls

Head Start

Healthy Start

Healthy Steps for Young Children

Hip-Hop to Health Jr.

Know Your Body

Making Proud Choices!

Parents as Teachers

Postponing Sexual Involvement/Human Sexuality Educational Series

Primary and Secondary Control Enhancement Training

Project TRUST

Reaching Educators, Children, and Parents (RECAP)

Reducing the Risk

Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP)

Safe Child Program

Seattle Social Development Project

Second Step Violence Prevention

Self Center (School-Linked Reproductive Health Services)

Social Decision Making / Problem Solving

SPORT

Syracuse Family Development Research Program

Teen Outreach Program

Teen Talk

Text4Health-Adolescents

Triple P Positive Parenting Program

Triple Play

Who Do You Tell?


Proven / Promising Programs


Family Support and Parenting Education in the Home

Infant Health and Development Program

Quantum Opportunity Program (QOP)


Other Reviewed Programs


Across Ages

Aggression Replacement Training

Aggressors, Victims, and Bystanders: Thinking and Acting to Prevent Violence

Al's Pals: Kids Making Healthy Choices

All Stars

All Stars (Core Program)

Behavioral Monitoring and Reinforcement Program

Brief Strategic Family Therapy

Child FIRST

Children in Between

Class Action

Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol (CMCA)

Community of Caring

Community Trials Intervention to Reduce High-Risk Drinking (RHRD)

Connect with Kids

Coping Power Program

Early Intervention Program for Adolescent Mothers (EIP)

Early Risers 'Skills for Success' Program

Facing History and Ourselves

Families And Schools Together (FAST)

Family Matters

FAST Track

Focus on Families

Functional Family Therapy

Good Behavior Game

Growing Healthy

Keep A Clear Mind (KACM)

Keepin' it R.E.A.L. (Refuse, Explain, Avoid, Leave)

Leadership and Resiliency Program (LRP)

Linking the Interests of Families and Teachers (LIFT)

Lions-Quest Skills for Adolescence

Lions-Quest Working Toward Peace

Michigan Model for Comprehensive School Health Education

Minnesota Smoking Prevention Program

Multidimensional Family Therapy

Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care

Not On Tobacco

Olweus Bullying Prevention Program

Open Circle Curriculum

OSLC Treatment Foster Care

Parenting Wisely

Parenting With Love and Limits

PeaceBuilders

The Peacemakers Program: Violence Prevention for Students in Grades 4-8

Peers Making Peace

Positive Action

Preventive Treatment Program

Primary Mental Health Project

Project ACHIEVE

Project EX

Project SUCCESS

Project Toward No Drug Abuse (Project TND)

Project Toward No Tobacco Use (Project TNT)

Project Venture

Prolonged Exposure Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorders

Promoting Alternative THinking Strategies (PATHS)

Protecting You / Protecting Me

Reconnecting Youth (RY)

Residential Student Assistance Program

Resources, Education, and Care in the Home (REACH)

Responding in Peaceful and Positive Ways (RIPP)

Safe Dates

Say It Straight Training

SCARE Program

School Transitional Environmental Program

Schools and Families Educating Children (SAFE Children)

SMARTteam (Students Managing Anger and Resolution Together)

SNAP (Stop Now And Plan) Under 12 Outreach Project (SNAP ORP)

Start Taking Alcohol Risks Seriously (STARS) for Families

Strengthening Families Program

Strengthening Families Program: For Parents and Youth 10-14

Strong African American Families (SAAF) Program

Teaching Students to be Peacemakers

Teenage Health Teaching Modules

The Think Time Strategy

Too Good for Drugs

Too Good for Drugs and Violence

Too Good for Violence

Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy