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Topic: drugs| Title | Evidence Rating | Topics | Summary | RCT | ||
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| Program Profile: Across Ages | | | Schools, Substance abuse, Truancy, Youth development, Positive youth development, Drug abuse prevention and education, Drugs, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Juvenile delinquency | This is an intergenerational mentoring initiative designed to delay or reduce substance use by increasing the resiliency and protective factors of at-risk middle school youth. The program is rated Ineffective for improving outcomes related to alcohol use, marijuana use, self-control, problem behaviors, school absences, grades, and bonding. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Multisystemic Therapy–Family Integrated Transitions (MST-FIT) | | | Mental health, Substance abuse, Reentry, Youth development, Home visiting, Treatment, Young juvenile offenders, Corrections, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Drugs, Drug treatment | This intervention provides integrated individual and family services to juveniles who have co-occurring mental health and chemical dependency disorders during their transition from incarceration back into the community. The program is rated Promising for reducing felony recidivism. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: CHOICE | | | Schools, Alcohol, Underage drinking, School safety, Afterschool, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Substance abuse, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a voluntary afterschool program for middle school aged youths to inform them about substance use and prevent them from starting or continuing alcohol use. The program is rated Effective for reducing alcohol use frequency, and Ineffective for reducing heavy alcohol use and improving alcohol resistance self-efficacy (the self-confidence to resist alcohol). Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: The Pathways Home Foster Care Reunification Intervention | | | Family reunification, Foster care/child welfare system, Drugs | This is a preventive intervention intended to reunite children returning home to their parents after their first stay in foster care. The program sought to prevent reunification failures when children were returned home to their biological parents by supporting parents and by making the transition a smooth process for both immediate and continued parenting success. The program is rated Promising for improving encouragement strategies. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: JOBSTART | | | Dropout/expulsion, Truancy, Jobs and workforce development, Drug abuse prevention and education, Drugs, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Employment initiatives | This is a community- and school-based program designed to increase academic skills and job placement in disadvantaged youth. The program is rated Effective for increasing receipt of education or training and increasing receipt of a GED. The program is rated Ineffective for increasing total earnings and employment, reducing receipt of food stamps, and reducing arrests and drug use. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Lions Quest Skills for Adolescence (SFA) | | One study | Schools, Cocaine, Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, School climate, Drug abuse prevention and education, Drugs, Illegal substances, Legal substances | This is a school-based life skills training curriculum aimed at developing middle-school students’ social skills and competencies for resisting and reducing tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use. The program is rated Promising for reducing marijuana use. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: CHAT (Motivational Interviewing for Adolescents At-Risk for Substance Use) | | | Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Legal substances | This program uses motivational interviewing in primary care settings for adolescents at risk for substance use. The program is rated Effective for reducing the number of negative consequences experienced as a result of alcohol use and the number of negative consequences experienced as a result of marijuana use. The program is rated Ineffective for increasing one’s belief in their ability to resist using a substance, reducing alcohol use and marijuana use, and time around substance using peers. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Stepped Collaborative Care for Adolescents (Washington State) | | | Alcohol, Mental health, Substance abuse, Children exposed to violence, Trauma, Treatment, Legal substances, Drugs | This is an inpatient/outpatient integrated care intervention for injured adolescents designed to reduce violence risk behaviors as well as posttraumatic stress disorder and depressive symptoms by providing a variety of services to adolescents following a traumatic physical injury. The program is rated Promising for reducing weapon carrying. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Plus Mindfulness Meditation for Adolescent Alcohol Consumption (Australia) |
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Schools, Alcohol, Underage drinking, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Substance abuse, Legal substances, Drugs, Promising Evidence Rating | This program uses psycho–social and present-moment awareness techniques to target adolescents’ alcohol-related cognitions and prevent their alcohol use. The program is rated Promising. Adolescents who received the intervention had reduced growth of alcohol consumption, compared with adolescents in the control group. There were no statistically significant differences between the groups in both negative and positive alcohol expectancies and drinking refusal self-efficacy. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Imprisonment for Individuals Who Committed a Drunk Driving Offense (New South Wales, Australia) |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Alcohol, Prisons, Corrections, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Courts, Traffic laws, Traffic law enforcement, Law enforcement, Substance abuse, Legal substances, Drugs, No Effects Evidence Rating | This involves prison time for individuals who have committed drunk-driving offenses to reduce their risk of recidivism upon their release. The program is rated Ineffective. There was no statistically significant difference between individuals in the treatment group (who received prison time) and the comparison group (who received a suspended imprisonment sentence) on reoffending with a driving-while-under-the-influence-of-alcohol offense within 6 months’, 24 months’, or 5 years’ time. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Young Adult Family Check-Up (YA-FCU) |
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Schools, Juvenile health, Mental health, Youth development, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Drugs, Substance abuse, No Effects Evidence Rating | The program focuses on the relationship between young adults and their parents to prevent substance misuse and other high-risk behaviors and enhance protective factors such as improving communication and strengthening familial relationships, encouraging healthy peer and romantic relationships, and promoting self-efficacy. The program is rated Ineffective. It made no statistically significant impact on reducing the risk level for a problematic transition into young adulthood. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: New Orientation for Reducing Threats to Health from Secretive-problems That Affect Readiness (NORTH STAR) |
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Alcohol, Prescription drugs, Treatment, Military personnel, Crime prevention, Substance abuse, Drugs, Drug treatment | This is a prevention planning and implementation system designed to improve risk and protective factors, and reduce secretive problems, in military communities. The program is rated Ineffective. There were no statistically significant differences between the bases assigned to NORTH STAR and the comparison bases on measures of physical or emotional interpersonal violence/partner abuse, physical or emotional child abuse, hazardous drinking, suicidality, or prescription drug misuse. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: North Dakota’s 24/7 Sobriety Program |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Drug testing, Probation, Law enforcement, Sanctions, Traffic laws, Traffic law enforcement, Crime prevention, Legal substances, Substance abuse, Drugs | This program seeks to reduce the rearrests of individuals previously convicted of driving while under the influence (DUI) of alcohol or drugs through intensive testing and monitoring of drug and alcohol consumption. The program is rated Promising. There was a statistically significant decrease in the rates of DUI arrests by roughly 9 percent in counties that implemented the program, compared with counties that did not implement the program. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Risk Reduction through Family Therapy (RRFT) for Adolescents |
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Mental health, Substance abuse, Children exposed to violence, Trauma, Treatment, Rape and sexual assault, Violent crime, Crisis response, Juvenile (under 18), Drugs, Drug treatment | The goal of this exposure-based, integrative intervention was to reduce substance use and mental health problems in adolescents who have experienced trauma. The program is rated Promising. The program had a statistically significant impact on depressive and internalizing symptoms, family cohesion, and family conflict. There were mixed results for PTSD symptoms and substance use. There was no statistically significant impact on externalizing symptoms. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Community-Level Intervention on Alcohol-Related Motor Vehicle Crashes (Calif.) |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Regulatory offenses, Alcohol, Underage drinking, Law enforcement operations, Law enforcement, Traffic law enforcement, Traffic laws, Legal substances, Drugs | This program was designed to reduce excessive drinking among adolescents and young adults ages 12-25 through community-wide enforcement operations and awareness campaigns. The program is rated Promising. There was a statistically significant reduction in alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes among 15- to 30-year-old drivers in treatment group cities, compared with control group cities. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Daily Automated Telephony With a Brief Cognitive Intervention for Persons on Parole (Sweden) |
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Parole, Cell Phones, Mental health, Alcohol, Community corrections, Corrections, Reentry, Legal substances, Drugs | This was an automated telephony program designed for those recently paroled in Sweden that provided immediate feedback to participants and sent daily reports to their parole officers. The program is rated Promising. Treatment group participants reported statistically significantly less alcohol use, drug use, and internalizing behaviors at the 1-month follow-up, compared with control group participants. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Gender-Specific Drug Treatment Court (Midwestern State) |
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Probation, Drug courts, Problem-solving courts, Recidivism, Crime prevention | This is a drug court program that provides treatment services to women on probation to reduce their risk of reoffending. The program gives preference to women who have higher need and risk profiles, are mothers, and have substance use problems. The program is rated Promising. Women in the treatment group were statistically significantly less likely to have a new conviction, compared with similar women on probation who did not participate in the program, at the 2-year follow-up. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: The Impact of California’s Proposition 47 (The Reduced Penalties for Some Crimes Initiative) on Recidivism |
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Mental health, Sentencing guidelines, Drug possession, Prisons, Corrections, Correctional facilities, Drugs, Drug abuse prevention and education, Crime prevention | This is a policy reform passed by California voters to downgrade drug and property offenses from felonies to misdemeanors, to focus prison resources on the most-serious violent offenses, reinvest savings toward prevention, and reduce recidivism. The program is rated Promising. In an evaluation of recidivism, the intervention group had statistically significantly fewer rearrests and reconvictions for any crime or revocation, compared with the control group, at the 1-year follow-up. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Impact of Statewide Ignition Interlock Laws on Alcohol-Involved Crash Fatalities in the United States |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Alcohol, Vehicles, Crime prevention, Traffic accidents, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a drunk driving prevention initiative that seeks to reduce alcohol-involved crash fatalities by requiring the installation of ignition interlock devices on vehicles of all drivers convicted of driving under the influence. The program is rated Promising. Intervention states with a statewide ignition interlock requirement had a 15 percent decrease in alcohol-involved vehicle crash fatalities, compared with control states. This was a statistically significant difference. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Swift and Sure Sanctions Probation Program (Michigan) |
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Parole, Community corrections, Corrections, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Legal substances, Drugs | This is an alternative-to-incarceration program designed to respond swiftly with sanctions to probation violations of those at high-risk of re-offending. The overall goal is to reduce participants’ recidivism rates. The program is rated Promising. Participants had statistically significant reduction in recidivism rates (overall, misdemeanor, felony, property, drug/alcohol, and other) compared with the comparison group, but there was no statistically significant effects on violent recidivism. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Motivational Interviewing (MI) Training for Parole Officers in Colorado |
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Training, Parole, Community corrections, Probation, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Drugs, Violent crime | This is a client-centered counseling approach implemented as a job-training intervention for parole officers in Colorado. The intervention seeks to enhance parole officers’ communication skills to promote motivation for change and reduce recidivism among supervised people on probation. The program is rated Promising. People on probation in the intervention group showed a statistically significant reduction in recidivism outcomes, compared with people on probation in the comparison group. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Web-Based Sexual Assault Risk Reduction (SARR) for College Women |
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Situational crime prevention, Rape and sexual assault, Violent crime, Crime prevention, Victimization, Campus, Campus Crime, Schools, Substance abuse, Legal substances, Drugs | This was a program for college women who engaged in heavy episodic drinking to provide feedback on their risk perception and resistance to reduce sexual assault. The program is rated Ineffective. Program participants did not statistically significantly differ from those in the control group on measures of incapacitated attempted/completed rape frequency, alcohol-related sexual assault incidents/severity, or use of sexual assault protective behavioral strategies at the 3-month follow-up. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Community Reporting Engagement Support and Training (CREST) |
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Parole, Probation, Mental health, Community corrections, Corrections, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Drugs, Substance abuse | This is an enhanced day reporting center designed to reduce the risk of recidivism in people on probation with mental illnesses. It provides services such as substance abuse treatment and crisis intervention. The program is rated Promising. Treatment group individuals had a statistically significantly lower risk of conviction for any offense, compared with control group participants on standard probation. However, there was no statistically significant effect on the risk of conviction for a felo Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Cooperative Learning |
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Schools, Underage drinking, School safety, Youth development, School climate, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Drugs | This is a group-based learning approach that seeks to enhance peer relations by increasing opportunities for positive social integration between adolescents. The program is rated Promising. Students in intervention schools reported they were less willing to use alcohol, had fewer deviant peer affiliations, lower perceived student stress and emotional problems, and had higher academic engagement, compared with students in control schools. These differences were statistically significant. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Mystery Shop Programs to Reduce Underage Alcohol Sales |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Situational crime prevention, Legal substances, Drugs | This intervention seeks to increase staff ID checks for the sale of alcoholic beverages at licensed establishments, to help prevent sales to minors. The program is rated Effective. The results were mixed. One study found there was a statistically significant increase in age verification rates resulting from the intervention, whereas a second study found no statistically significant increases in ID-checking rates. Overall, the results suggest the intervention influenced ID-checking rates. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Reducing Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) Limits for Motor Vehicle Operations (New Jersey) |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Alcohol, Drugs, Legal substances, Substance abuse, Drugs | This program comprises legislation that was passed to reduce alcohol-related crash fatalities by lowering the blood alcohol concentration limit for adult drivers from 0.10 to 0.08. The program is rated Ineffective. There was a statistically significant reduction in passenger fatalities per crash after the implementation of the legislation; however, there were no statistically significant impacts on driver fatalities per crash or total fatalities per crash. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: The Substance Use Prevention Promoted by Eating Family Meals Regularly (SUPPER) Project |
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Substance abuse, Marijuana, Drugs | This program seeks to help parents become facilitators in preventing children’s substance misuse, by encouraging them to have five or more family meals together weekly. The program is rated Promising. Intervention group parents showed a statistically significant increase in talking with children about alcohol, compared with control group parents, but there were no statistically significant differences in number of family meals per week and talking with children about marijuana and other drugs. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Operation Regional Analytics for the Safety of Our Residents (RASOR) |
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Problem-oriented policing, Drugs, Substance abuse | This was a modified focused deterrence program that targeted high-risk persons in Massachusetts. The program aimed to increase their risks of getting caught and convicted while providing them with regular meetings with a case management team and a variety of services such as substance abuse treatment. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences between the treatment group and the control group in time-to-arraignment at the 1-year follow-up. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Creating Lasting Family Connections Fatherhood Program: Family Reintegration |
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Reentry, Recidivism, Corrections, Crime prevention, Drugs | This is a community-based program for adult males who received substance abuse treatment while incarcerated and are reentering the community. The goals are to reduce recidivism, substance abuse, and HIV/hepatitis infection rates, and promote fatherhood and relationship skills. This program is rated Promising. Program participants had a statistically significant lower likelihood of recidivating and demonstrated an increase in relationship skills, compared with the comparison group members. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Family Therapy for Adolescent Behavior Problems |
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Mental health, Substance abuse, Treatment, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Alcohol, Drugs, Legal substances | This program assessed the impact of a nonmanualized family-based treatment approach for adolescent behavior problems. The program is rated Ineffective. Results indicated that the treatment group experienced statistically significant reductions in adolescent-reported externalizing and internalizing behaviors. However, there were no statistically significant differences between groups in caregiver-reported externalizing and internalizing behaviors or in adolescent-reported alcohol or drug use. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Honest Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE) |
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Drug testing, Probation, Corrections, Community corrections, Crime prevention | This is a community supervision strategy that includes swift, certain, and fair responses to probation violations. The program is rated Ineffective. The treatment group had a statistically significant lower likelihood of having a positive drug test at the 12-month follow-up, but a statistically significant greater number of probation violations, compared with the control group. There were no statistically significant effects on recidivism (any arrest) or new convictions. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Be BOLD Yoga for High-Risk Adolescents |
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Schools, Marijuana, Alcohol, Mental health, Juvenile health, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Dropout/expulsion, Alternative schools, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a mindfulness-based yoga program intended to reduce substance use (and the subsequent negative effects of use) for adolescents at high risk of dropping out of school. The program is rated Ineffective. There were no statistically significant differences in measures of substance use, self-regulation, mood, mindfulness, or coping skills for youth who participated in the program, compared with the control group youth. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Delaware KEY Substance Abuse Program |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Mental health, Correctional facilities, Prisons, Drugs, Rape and sexual assault | This program is a prison-based therapeutic community for drug-involved individuals. The program is rated Promising. After 3 years, results showed statistically significant increases in remaining drug-free; however, there were no statistically significant effects in being arrest-free. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Delaware CREST Outreach Centers |
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Parole, Probation, Mental health, Alcohol-Related Offenses, Corrections, Correctional facilities, Reentry, Drugs | This is a residential work-release program that uses therapy, counseling and treatment for persons convicted of a crime with a history of substance use who are reentering society. The program is rated Promising. There were statistically significant increases in participants being injection-free at 6 months and being drug-free after 3 years; however, there were no statistically significant effects in condom use (at 6 months) or being arrest-free (after 3 years). Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Alcohol Literacy Challenge |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Schools, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Juvenile (under 18), Young adults (18-24), Campus, Schools, Child health and welfare, Drugs | This program consists of a single-session, group-delivered intervention for high school and college students, which is designed to alter alcohol expectancies and lower alcohol use. The program is rated Promising. The program was shown to have a statistically significant effect on modifying alcohol expectancy processes and reducing alcohol consumption in college students; however, there was no statistically significant impact on high school students. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Intensive Judicial Supervision (IJS) in Parramatta Drug Court (Australia) |
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Drug courts, Heroin, Courts, Problem-solving courts, Sanctions, Crime prevention, Substance abuse, Opioids | This intervention was designed to increase the level of judicial oversight on participants convicted of misdemeanor crimes in the Parramatta Drug Court program. The program was rated Promising. Results indicated that participants under intensive judicial supervision had lower rates of positive drug tests, compared with the comparison group. This difference was statistically significant. However, there were no statistically significant differences in sanctions, program progression or termination. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Coaching for Communities (CfC) [United Kingdom] |
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Youth development, Drug abuse prevention and education, Drugs, Juvenile delinquency, Child health and welfare, Employment initiatives, Substance abuse, Legal substances, Drugs, Alcohol | This is a mentoring program for youth who show low levels of antisocial behavior. This program was rated Promising. Youth in the program had statistically significant improvements in offending behavior, antisocial behavior, negative affect, association with antisocial peers, emotional well-being, and involvement in education or employment, compared with youth in the control group, but not in volume of offending behavior, use of alcohol or drugs, impulsivity, or aspirations for the future. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Master Mind |
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Schools, Alcohol, Juvenile health, Mental health, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Legal substances, Drugs | This was a mindfulness education and substance abuse prevention program for fourth- and fifth-grade students, which was designed to build self-regulatory skills and reduce intentions to use alcohol or tobacco. This program was rated Promising. There were statistically significant increases in measures of executive functioning, social problems, and aggression. There were no statistically significant effects on attention problems and intentions to use substances. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: School-Based Guided Self-Change |
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Schools, Juvenile health, Mental health, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Treatment, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Alcohol, Drugs, Legal substances | This brief, cognitive behavioral, motivational intervention was designed to address alcohol and other drug use as well as aggressive behaviors among English- and Spanish-speaking adolescents who were already involved in drugs and aggressive behavior. This program is rated Ineffective The study found no statistically significant differences in measures of substance use and aggressive behaviors between adolescents in the treatment group, compared with adolescents receiving standard care. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Free Talk |
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Juvenile courts, Alcohol-Related Offenses, Marijuana, Alcohol, Diversion, Youth/peer courts, Crime prevention, Recidivism, Juvenile delinquency, Substance abuse, Legal substances | This is a group, motivational interviewing program for adolescents with a first-time alcohol or drug offense. The goal of the program is to prevent negative consequences of alcohol and other drug use. This program is rated Ineffective. There were no statistically significant differences between the intervention and comparison groups on past month frequency of alcohol, heavy drinking, or marijuana use; alcohol or marijuana consequences; recidivism; delinquency; and alcohol and other drug use. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Family Drug Treatment Court (Snohomish County, WA) |
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Drug courts, Family courts, Drug-Related Victimization, Family reunification, Foster care/child welfare system | This is a program for parents who have substance abuse allegations and are involved in the child welfare system. The program is rated Effective. The study found that parent participants were more likely to have their children returned, more likely to experience a permanency-planning outcome, and less likely to have their parental rights terminated. Additionally, children of program participants spent less time in the child welfare system. These findings were statistically significant. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Decide Your Time (Delaware) |
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Drug testing, Probation, Corrections, Community corrections, Recidivism, Sanctions, Courts, Drugs | This was a program for chronic drug-using persons on probation that incorporated graduated sanctions with incentives to reduce recidivism and drug use among participants. The program is rated Ineffective. Implemented in Delaware, the program was shown to have no impact on the successful completion of probation, on re-arrests, or on drug use. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Brief Motivational Interviewing for Alcohol Use (Incarcerated Women) |
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Alcohol, Prisons, Correctional facilities, Corrections, Community corrections, Reentry, Substance abuse, Legal substances, Drugs | This program was designed to provide an alcohol intervention to incarcerated women with hazardous drinking habits who were being released from prison. The program is rated Ineffective. There were no statistically significant differences between the treatment and comparison groups on the number of days abstinent from alcohol consumption at the 6-month follow up. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Social Support Treatment with Drug Testing (Maryland) |
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Drug testing, Parole, Cocaine, Heroin, Corrections, Community corrections, Reentry, Crime prevention, Substance abuse, Cocaine, Opioids | This program involves social support integrated with regular drug testing for recently paroled individuals who have a history of heroin and cocaine abuse. The program is rated Promising. Program participants had a statistically significant lower rate of reconviction, arrest, and incarceration, compared with the comparison group; however, there were no statistically significant effects on employment. Program participants also had a statistically significant higher positive drug-testing rate. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Employment Intervention for Drug-Involved Offenders (Kentucky) |
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Drug courts, Problem-solving courts, Employment initiatives | This program for Kentucky drug court participants focuses on obtaining, maintaining, and upgrading employment. The intervention concentrates on job-skills and social-skills training. The program is rated Ineffective. There was a small, statistically significant improvement for program participants on multiple drug use in the past 30 days, but no statistically significant effects for days worked at a legitimate job, income from a legitimate job, property damage, and handling stolen goods. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Collaborative Behavioral Management in Six Sites |
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Parole, Corrections, Community corrections, Reentry, Drugs, Substance abuse | This program involved collaborative sessions among a parole officer, treatment counselor, and the person on parole. The intervention provided parole officers with positive tools to manage the behavior of people on parole. The program aimed to reduce substance use, crime, and re-arrest among drug-involved people on parole. The program is rated Ineffective. Results showed that the intervention did not significantly reduce re-arrest or overall drug use. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Recovery Management Checkups for Women Offenders (Cook County, Ill.) |
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Jails, Correctional facilities, Corrections, Reentry, Crime prevention, Recidivism, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Legal substances, Drugs | This intervention linked women who committed nonviolent offenses to community-based, substance use treatment after release from jail. It was designed to reduce recidivism and alcohol and drug use, and to promote long-term recovery. This program is rated Ineffective. The treatment group had a statistically significant greater likelihood of participating in substance use treatment; however, there were no significant effects for recidivism, alcohol and drug use, or number of days spent in jail. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Turning Point Multiple DUI Treatment Program |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Alcohol, Traffic laws, Crime prevention, Law enforcement, Legal substances, Substance abuse, Drugs | This was a residential treatment program that targeted individuals who committed multiple driving-under-the-influence (DUI) offenses. The program combined educational components with individualized treatment and therapy to address substance use. The program is rated Promising. The treatment group was statistically significantly less likely than the comparison group to be arrested for any new offense and specifically for a DUI offense, but not for committing an alcohol-related offense. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Residential Aftercare Component of Quehanna (PA) Motivational Boot Camp Program |
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Drug testing, Mental health, Corrections, Reentry, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Drugs | This program provides residential aftercare services for those with substance abuse issues who have completed the 6-month Quehanna (PA) Motivational Boot Camp Program. The program is rated Ineffective. An examination of the impact of both 30- and 90-day aftercare programs found no statistically significant effects of treatment of either dosage on recidivism. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: National Supported Work Demonstration Project (Multisite) |
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Recidivism, Employment initiatives, Drugs, Substance abuse | This program was designed to help hard-to-employ individuals acquire skills, habits, and credentials necessary to find and hold permanent, unsubsidized employment. The goal was to prepare individuals for regular employment, reduce unemployment, and reduce criminal behavior and substance use. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences on number of arrests and time to arrests between participants and nonparticipants. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Tulsa (OK) Family Drug Court |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Drug courts, Family courts, Family reunification, Foster care/child welfare system, Problem-solving courts, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Drugs, Drug treatment | This is a treatment court dedicated to cases of child abuse and neglect, in which parental substance abuse is one of the primary reasons for child welfare involvement. The program provides parenting training in conjunction with substance abuse treatment to increase the likelihood of reunification. The program is rated Effective. Families who received services through the Family Drug Court were statistically significantly more likely to reunify than comparison families. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Juvenile Breaking the Cycle (JBTC) Program (Lane County, Oregon) |
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Drug courts, Juvenile courts, Marijuana, Alcohol, Mental health, Substance abuse, Diversion, Case Management, Treatment, Young juvenile offenders, Crime prevention, Recidivism, Diversion, Legal substances, Drugs, Drug treatment | Using comprehensive assessments, the program identified, provided, and coordinated individualized services for high-risk, drug-involved, justice-involved juveniles. This program is rated Effective. Results suggest that JBTC participants were significantly less likely to recidivate and had statistically significantly fewer arrests, compared with non-JBTC participants. However, the impact on self-reported drug use was mixed. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: PROmoting School-Community-University Partnerships to Enhance Resilience (PROSPER) |
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Schools, Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Positive youth development, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Methamphetamine, Illegal substances, Drugs | This is a community-based program that was designed to address substance abuse and antisocial behavior. The program is rated Promising. Students in the schools that implemented the PROSPER model had statistically significant fewer conduct problems and lower lifetime illicit substance use, compared with students in control schools. However, there were no statistically significant impacts on driving after drinking alcohol or frequency of drunkenness. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Ada County (Idaho) Drug Court |
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Drug courts, Probation, Corrections, Community corrections, Problem-solving courts, Recidivism, Crime prevention | This program provides court-supervised, community-based outpatient drug treatment and case management services to persons convicted of a felony drug offense. The goals are to increase accountability, decrease the likelihood of recidivism, and reduce drug dependency. The program is rated Promising. Treatment group participants showed a statistically significant lower likelihood of recidivating, compared with comparison group participants who were placed on probation. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Abecedarian Project |
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Home visiting, Positive youth development, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Drugs, Substance abuse, Cocaine, Illegal substances | This was an early education intervention designed to improve cognitive and educational development among low-income children. The program is rated Promising. The treatment group showed a statistically significant greater likelihood of being enrolled in college and having held skilled employment, a lower likelihood of being a teen parent, and fewer depressive symptoms, compared with the control group. However, there were no statistically significant differences in incarceration or drug use. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Baltimore County (Md.) Juvenile Drug Court |
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Drug courts, Juvenile courts, Alcohol-Related Offenses, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Diversion, Treatment, Problem-solving courts, Drug treatment | This program represents an alternative to traditional processing in the juvenile justice system. Rather than going through court processing, youth with substance-abuse problems are placed in treatment. The goal is to reduce their use of drugs and criminal behavior. The program is rated Promising. At the 2-year follow up, program participants had fewer overall and drug-related rearrests, compared with a matched comparison group. These differences were statistically significant. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Classroom-Centered Intervention to Reduce Risk of Substance Use |
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Schools, Substance abuse, Youth development, Positive youth development, School climate, Drug abuse prevention and education, Drugs, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Alcohol, Legal substances | This program was a preventive intervention for first-grade students, which was designed to reduce substance use risk by improving teachers’ behavior-management skills and enhancing classroom curricula. The program is rated Promising. Overall, results were mixed. The treatment group showed a statistically significant lower likelihood of self-reporting initiation of tobacco use and other drugs, compared with the control group. The program had no statistically significant impact on alcohol, mariju Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Family-School Partnership Intervention to Reduce Risk of Substance Use |
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Schools, Substance abuse, Youth development, Positive youth development, School climate, Drug abuse prevention and education, Drugs, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Alcohol, Legal substances | The program was a universal, preventive intervention for first-grade students, designed to reduce the risk for substance use by improving teachers’ and parents’ communication and behavior-management skills. The program is rated Promising. Approximately 6 to 7 years after the program, participants showed a statistically significant lower likelihood of having initiated tobacco use, compared with nonparticipants. The program had no impact on alcohol, marijuana, inhalant, or other drug use. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Three Data Driven Supervision Protocols for Parole Violations (Georgia) |
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Drug testing, Parole, Probation, Corrections, Community corrections, Crime prevention, Drugs | In this program, new supervision protocols for substance abuse, joblessness, and chronic violators were created based on data gathered on the behavior of the paroled person and parole officer responses. The program is rated Ineffective. There was no significant impact on overall arrests or measures of recidivism. In fact, the treatment group had significantly more arrests for a new misdemeanor offense than the comparison group. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Washington State's Residential Drug Offender Sentencing Alternative |
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Corrections, Reentry, Inmate programs, Crime prevention, Recidivism, Courts, Drugs, Substance abuse | This program is an alternative to incarceration for felons with substance abuse problems. In lieu of confinement, they must successfully complete a residential, chemical-dependency treatment program in the community. The program is rated Promising. Residential DOSA was shown to statistically significantly reduce overall recidivism rates compared with prison-based DOSA. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Juvenile Justice Assessment Planning Referral Placement (JARPP) |
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Training, Parole, Probation, Personnel, Treatment, Case Management, Corrections, Community corrections, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Juvenile delinquency, Juvenile detention, Drugs, Substance abuse | This is a training program for juvenile justice probation/parole case managers (PCMs), to promote their use of evidence-based practices to identify the mental health and substance use needs of delinquent youth and increase youth’s access to services. The program is rated Promising. There were statistically significant reductions in re-referral and placement rates for youth whose PCMs received the enhanced training, compared with youth whose PCMs received the standard training or no training. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Random Drug Testing with Immediate Results and Immediate Sanctions |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Drug testing, Parole, Cocaine, Heroin, Alcohol, Reentry, Community corrections, Corrections, Crime prevention, Recidivism, Courts, Illegal substances, Opioids | This program was an experiment that was conducted to examine the efficacy of alternative methods of instant drug testing, and to determine how the different methods affected rates of relapse and recidivism of parolees with substance abuse issues. The program is rated Promising. The treatment group experienced a statistically significant decrease in rates of relapse, but no statistically significant difference in recidivism, compared with the control group. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: "Seeking Safety" for Incarcerated Women |
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Burglary, Mental health, Coping, Drugs, Substance abuse | This is a manualized cognitive–behavioral intervention for incarcerated women with co-occurring posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use disorders. The program is rated Promising. Evaluation results suggest that the program statistically significantly reduced PTSD and depression scores in program participants. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Moving to Opportunity Demonstration Program |
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Crime prevention, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Juvenile delinquency, Drugs, Violent crime | This is a housing mobility demonstration program intended to help move families from high-poverty public housing to low-poverty private housing to improve their lives. This program is rated Ineffective. The program was shown to have no statistically significant long-term effects on violent, property, drug, or general crime arrests. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Neighborhood Enrichment with Vision Involving Services, Treatment, and Supervision (NEW VISTAS) |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Drug testing, Probation, Schools, Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Intake/assessment, Community policing, Case Management, Youth development, Treatment, Comprehensive/wraparound services, Crime prevention, Recidivism, Juvenile detention, Drugs, Substance abuse | This program consisted of a comprehensive, neighborhood-based, family-focused service delivery model that employed wraparound services and case management for justice-involved families with identified substance abuse problems. The program is rated Promising. Treatment group youth had a statistically significant decrease in noninstitutional and institutional out-of-home placements, compared with comparison group youth. However, there was no statistically significant difference in recidivism. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Family Check-Up (FCU) for Adolescents |
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Positive youth development, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Mental health, Alcohol, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a family-centered intervention designed to assist families with high-risk adolescents. The goal is to reduce the growth of adolescents’ problem behaviors and substance abuse. The program is rated Promising. Participants showed statistically significantly less growth of antisocial behavior and in alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use compared with the control group. Participants also had stable GPAs from the start of middle school into high school and fewer school absences. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Rockford Pulling Levers Drug Market Intervention |
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Drug possession, Databases, Community policing, Patrol, Problem-oriented policing, Procedural justice, Drug markets, Crime prevention, Law enforcement | A problem-oriented policing strategy that aims to combat drug markets and the problems associated with them, in a high- crime neighborhood, through a deterrence-based, pulling levers framework. The program is rated Promising. The program was shown to significantly reduce nonviolent offenses in the target area, but not violent offenses. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: West Midlands (England) High-Crime-Causing Users (HCCU) |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Cocaine, Heroin, Problem-oriented policing, Arrests, Substance abuse, Drugs, Opioids | An intensive community-based partnership between police and treatment providers in West Midlands that provided enhanced delivery and coordinated efforts and resources to high-risk individuals to reduce their offending behavior. The program is rated Promising. The program was shown to significantly reduce the average number of arrests for participants. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Juvenile Drug Courts With Contingency Management and Multisystemic Therapy |
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Drug courts, Juvenile courts, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Problem-solving courts, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Corrections, Juvenile delinquency, Juvenile justice, Alcohol, Legal substances | This program incorporates contingency management protocols and multisystemic therapy into traditional juvenile drug court services to provide juveniles and families with additional engagement opportunities and support to reduce recidivism and substance abuse. The program is rated Promising. The program statistically significantly reduced alcohol and poly drug use, positive drug urine screens, status offenses, and property offenses. The program had mixed effects on marijuana use and offenses. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Youth-Nominated Support Team-Version II (YST-II) |
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Mental health, Suicide, Treatment, Child health and welfare, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Legal substances, Drugs, Juvenile (under 18), Drug treatment | This program was designed to provide adult support to suicidal youth following psychiatric care. The program is rated Promising. Program participants showed statistically significant improvements on mortality, suicide and drug-related deaths, outpatient psychotherapy sessions, medication follow-up sessions, and outpatient drug or alcohol treatment but not on suicidal ideation, suicide, depression, negative attitudes about the future, functional impairment, or inpatient drug or alcohol treatment. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Utah Juvenile Drug Courts |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Drug courts, Juvenile courts, Drug possession, Alcohol, Treatment, Problem-solving courts, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Juvenile delinquency, Juvenile justice, Juvenile (under 18), Legal substances, Drug treatment | This is a juvenile drug court designed to reduce alcohol and other drug and delinquency offenses through an accountability framework. The program is rated Promising. Treatment group participants were statistically significantly less likely to recidivate in delinquency/criminal offenses, compared with the comparison group participants. However, there was no statistically significant effect on alcohol and other drug recidivism. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Ecologically Based Family Therapy (EBFT) for Substance-Abusing Runaway Adolescents |
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Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Family reunification, Treatment, Legal substances, Drugs, Juvenile (under 18), Drug treatment | This is a home-based, family preservation model for families in crisis because a youth has run away from home. The model targets 12- to 17-year-olds who are staying in a runaway shelter and dealing with substance abuse issues. The program is rated Promising. Treatment group adolescents reported a statistically significant reduction in the percentage of days they used alcohol or drugs, compared with control group adolescents who received services as usual, at the 15-month follow up. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PADOC) Therapeutic Community |
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Mental health, Corrections, Inmate programs, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Drugs | A prison-based drug treatment program based on the principles of therapeutic communities with the overall goal of reducing the risk of drug relapse and recidivism once they return to the community. The program is rated Ineffective. The program did not significantly impact participants’ rates of rearrests or drug relapse, and only had a small effect on reincarceration rates. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: KEEP SAFE |
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Girls, Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Foster care/child welfare system, Juvenile delinquency, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Crime prevention, Legal substances, Drugs | This was a multicomponent intervention to prevent delinquency and substance misuse for girls in foster care transitioning from elementary school to middle school. The program is rated Promising. Treatment group girls reported statistically significantly reduced tobacco use, marijuana use, and delinquent behavior, compared with control group girls. However, there was no statistically significant impact on alcohol use or association with delinquent peers. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Rochester Resilience Project (RRP) |
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Mental health, Substance abuse, School safety, Youth development, Positive youth development, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Juvenile delinquency, Drugs | This is a school-based intervention to improve the social-emotional and behavioral skills of young children at risk for mental health disorders and substance abuse. This program is rated Promising. The program had a statistically significant, positive effect on children’s task orientation, behavior control, assertiveness, and peer social skills. The program was also associated with a statistically significant decline in the average number of suspensions and office disciplinary referrals. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: High Point Drug Market Intervention |
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Drug possession, Databases, Evidence, Surveillance, Warrants, Community policing, Patrol, Problem-oriented policing, Procedural justice, Vehicles, Policing strategies, Drug markets, Drug trafficking, Crime prevention, Arrests | A problem-oriented policing program that aims to eliminate overt drug markets and the problems associated with them through a deterrence-based, pulling-levers framework. The program is rated Effective. The Intervention had a statistically significant impact on reducing violent incidents in the target areas. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Kansas Senate Bill 123 (Alternative Sentencing Policy for Non-Violent Drug Possession Offenders) |
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Drug testing, Probation, Mandatory sentencing, Drug possession, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Substance abuse | The Kansas State Senate Bill established a program that provided mandatory community-based drug treatment for nonviolent persons convicted of a preliminary offense for drug possession. The program is rated Ineffective. There were no statistically significant differences at the 18-month follow-up for reconviction or revocation between defendants who received mandatory drug treatment and the unmatched comparison group of defendants who were sentenced to standard community corrections. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Too Good for Drugs - Elementary School |
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Schools, Alcohol, Prescription drugs, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Youth development, Positive youth development, Drug abuse prevention and education, Drugs, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18) | This is a school-based drug prevention program designed to reduce students’ intention to use alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drugs and promote prosocial attitudes, skills, and behaviors. The program is rated Ineffective. There were mixed findings in students’ self-reported emotional competency skills, social and resistance skills, and perceptions of the harmful effects of drugs. There were also no statistically significant impacts on students’ attitudes toward drugs. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Project BUILD |
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Youth gangs, Violent offenders, Young juvenile offenders, Alternative schools, School climate, Access to education, Inmate programs, Recidivism, Corrections, Crime prevention, Juvenile detention, Drugs, Substance abuse, Intimate partner violence | This program comprises a violence prevention curriculum, which is designed to assist youth in detention to overcome obstacles such as gangs, violence, crime, and substance abuse. The program is rated Effective. Treatment group youth who participated in the program had lower rates of recidivism and took a longer amount of time to recidivate, compared with control group youth, at the 1-year follow up. These differences were statistically significant. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Reconnecting Youth |
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Schools, Mental health, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Truancy, Suicide, Youth development, Juvenile delinquency, Juvenile (under 18), Crime prevention, Child health and welfare, Alcohol, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a school-based prevention program designed for high-risk students. The program is rated Ineffective. There were no statistically significant differences between experimental group youth and control group youth in engagement in delinquency, alcohol use, smoking, GPA, anger, and school connectedness. There were also statistically significant negative program effects for experimental group youth in conventional peer bonding and peer high-risk behavior. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Maine Juvenile Drug Treatment Courts |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Drug courts, Juvenile courts, Heroin, Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Diversion, Treatment, Problem-solving courts, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Opioids | These court supervised, post-plea (but pre-final disposition) drug diversion programs provide comprehensive community-based treatment services to juveniles convicted of an offense and their families. The program is rated Promising. The program had a statistically significant impact on recidivism. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Residential Student Assistance Program (RSAP) |
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Marijuana, Alcohol, Mental health, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Foster care/child welfare system, Treatment, Juvenile detention, Child health and welfare, Juvenile justice, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a substance abuse intervention program for high-risk adolescents (ages 12–18) living in residential facilities. The program is rated Promising. Treatment group youth showed a statistically significant lower likelihood of reporting alcohol, marijuana, or overall alcohol and other drug (AOD) use in the previous 30 days, compared with comparison group youth. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Michigan Model for Health |
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Schools, Alcohol, Mental health, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a health education curriculum that targets K–12 students and includes age-appropriate lessons that focus on the most serious health challenges facing school-aged children. The program is rated Promising. There was a statistically significant impact on aggressive behavior, social and emotional health, interpersonal and drug refusal skills, and past-30-day alcohol and cigarette use. However, there was no statistically significant effect on prosocial behavior. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: STARS (Start Taking Alcohol Risks Seriously) for Families |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Alcohol, Underage drinking, Deinstitutionalization of status offenders, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Substance abuse, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a health promotion program designed to prevent alcohol use among at-risk middle and junior high school youth. The goal is to postpone alcohol use until adulthood. The program seeks to identify the various risk factors that youth are exposed to and offer them targeted information concerning underage alcohol use. The program is rated Ineffective. There were no statistically significant effects on frequency of alcohol use, quantity of alcohol consumption, or heavy alcohol use. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Community Trials Intervention to Reduce High-Risk Drinking (RHRD) |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Patrol, Problem-oriented policing, Environmental design, Traffic laws, Traffic law enforcement, Law enforcement, Assault, Violent crime, Crime prevention, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a community-based program to reduce underage drinking and alcohol-related offenses. The program is rated Promising. Intervention sites reported statistically significant reductions in DUI and nighttime crashes, average drinking quantity and variance, police-reported assaults, and EMS calls involving assault and motor vehicle crashes, compared with control sites. There was no difference in ED assaults, police reports of public drunkenness, or EMS calls involving alcohol or other drugs. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Changing Course |
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Jails, Correctional facilities, Corrections, Crime prevention, Recidivism, Drugs, Substance abuse, Drug treatment | This is an interactive journal designed to help incarcerated persons who have been screened or identified as having a potential substance use disorder to help inmates make the connection between their substance use and criminal activity. The program is rated Promising. The recidivism rate of inmates who participated in the program’s interactive journal intervention was statistically significantly lower compared with the control group. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Teams-Games-Tournaments (TGT) Alcohol Prevention |
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Schools, Alcohol, Underage drinking, Recreation, Deinstitutionalization of status offenders, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Substance abuse, Legal substances, Drugs | This is an alcohol prevention program for adolescents (typically high school students) that combines peer support with group reward structures. The program is rated Effective. Treatment group participants demonstrated statistically significant improvements in drinking behaviors, impulsive behaviors, attitudes toward drinking and driving, and alcohol knowledge, compared with control group participants. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Caring School Community |
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Schools, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, School safety, Children exposed to violence, School climate, Larceny/theft, Property crime, Crime prevention, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Juvenile delinquency, Victimization, Victims of crime, Alcohol, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a school-based program designed to improve students’ school attitudes and reduce delinquency. The program is rated Promising. The program showed a statistically significant positive effect on participants’ attainment of higher rates of supportive behavior and spontaneous prosocial behavior, compared with students who did not participate. There were no statistically significant effects on negative behavior, harmoniousness, substance/alcohol use, property damage, theft, or victimization. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: SMART Leaders |
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Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Afterschool, Drug abuse prevention and education, Drugs, Legal substances | This is a curriculum-based program for adolescents that aims to change attitudes toward and reduce substance use. The program is rated Promising. Participants demonstrated a statistically significant reduction in alcohol, marijuana, cigarette, and overall drug use; an increase in negative attitudes toward alcohol and marijuana; and an increase in knowledge of drug use and health consequences. However, there was no statistically significant effect on chewing tobacco behaviors. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Alcohol Misuse Prevention Study (AMPS) |
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Schools, Alcohol, Underage drinking, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Legal substances, Substance abuse, Drugs | This is an alcohol misuse prevention curriculum for 10- to 18-year-olds that emphasized resistance training, knowledge of the immediate effects of alcohol use, identification of the risks of alcohol misuse, and recognition of social pressures that lead to alcohol misuse. The program is rated Ineffective. There were no statistically significant effects found on alcohol use, alcohol misuse, serious offenses, or refusal skills. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Positive Youth Development Program (Connecticut) |
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Schools, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, School safety, Positive youth development, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Drugs | This is a school-based program designed to teach students to cope with daily challenges. The program is rated Promising. Students who participated in this program showed a statistically significant improvement in number of coping skills, and in impulse control, peer popularity, and conflict resolution, compared with students who did not participate. However, there were no statistically significant differences in substance or alcohol use or in assertiveness with adults. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Positive Family Support (PFS) |
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Schools, Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Case Management, Youth development, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a family-centered intervention, which addresses family dynamics to prevent substance use and problem behaviors in adolescents. The program is rated Effective. Students in the treatment group were found to report less substance use, including alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana; and demonstrate less antisocial behavior, compared with students in the control group. These differences were all statistically significant. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: I Can Problem Solve (ICPS) |
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School safety, Youth development, Schools, Juvenile (under 18), Drugs | This is a universal school-based prevention program that trains children by offering them a variety of solutions to problems. The program is rated Promising. Treatment group students demonstrated statistically significant improvements on measures of problem solving, understanding consequences, and self-regulation, compared with the improvements made by control group students. However, there was no statistically significant effect on social competence. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Little Village Gang Violence Reduction Project (Comprehensive Gang Model) |
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Gang Crime, Youth gangs, Probation, Community policing, Problem-oriented policing, Young juvenile offenders, Property crime, Crime prevention, Drugs, Violent crime | This is a comprehensive gang violence reduction program designed for the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago. The program is rated Promising. Treatment group youth who participated in the program had statistically significant reductions in total violent crime, serious violent crime, and drug crime arrests, compared with control group youth. However, there was no statistically significant difference in property crime arrests or total arrests. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Staying Connected with Your Teen® |
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Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Youth development, Treatment, Juvenile delinquency, Juvenile (under 18), Crime prevention, Child health and welfare, Drugs, Drug treatment | This program seeks to reduce substance abuse and problem behavior in adolescents. The program is rated Promising. The intervention group had a statistically significant decrease in favorable attitudes toward substance use at the 24-month follow up and in drug use frequency at the 72-month follow up, compared with the comparison group. However, there were no statistically significant differences at the 24-month follow up in violent and delinquent behavior and perceived harm of drug use. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Job Corps |
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Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Dropout/expulsion, Jobs and workforce development, Employment initiatives, Child health and welfare, Juvenile delinquency prevention, Alcohol, Legal substances, Drugs | This is an educational and job training program for economically disadvantaged youth. The program is rated Promising. Youth in Job Corps demonstrated a lower rate of future arrest, conviction, and incarceration, as well as a higher rate of employment, higher earnings, and longer time spent employed, compared with control group youth. These findings were statistically significant. However, there were no statistically significant differences in alcohol or illegal drug use. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Alcohol, Underage drinking, Legal substances, Substance abuse, Drugs, Juvenile (under 18) | This is a community program designed to reduce youth’s access to alcohol by changing community and law enforcement policies, attitudes, and practices. The program is rated Ineffective. There were no statistically significant differences between treatment sites and control sites in youth’s drinking prevalence, number of past-month drinking occasions, number of drinks consumed, attempts to purchase alcohol, or in alcohol merchants’ behavior. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Bicultural Competence Skills Approach |
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Tribal youth, Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Legal substances, Drugs, Juvenile (under 18) | This program is designed to prevent substance use in American Indian adolescents by teaching them bicultural social skills. The program is rated Promising. Youth who participated in the program demonstrated lower rates in use of smokeless tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, and inhalants. Program youth also showed better knowledge of substances and alternatives to substance use, self-control, and assertiveness, compared with control group youth. These differences were statistically significant. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Active Parenting of Teens: Families in Action |
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Schools, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Youth development, Afterschool, Child health and welfare, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a family-based alcohol prevention program for families with middle school-aged children. The program is rated Promising. Students in the program reported fewer family fights; higher family cohesion, and school attachment; and more negative views on underage alcohol consumption, compared with control group students. Parents in the program reported greater opposition to underage alcohol consumption, compared with control group parents. These differences were statistically significant. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Operation New Hope |
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Parole, Reentry, Violent offenders, Treatment, Community corrections, Corrections, Juvenile detention, Child health and welfare, Drugs, Drug treatment | This is a curriculum-based aftercare program designed to assist chronic, high-risk juveniles in their reintegration to the community after they are released from secure confinement. The program is rated Promising. Participants in the treatment group had a statistically significant lower number of rearrests and revocations and lower likelihood of substance use and associations with negative peers, compared with participants in the control group. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Athletes Targeting Healthy Exercise & Nutrition Alternatives (ATHENA) |
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Girls, Schools, Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Juvenile (under 18), Legal substances, Drugs | This is a team-centered, health promotion program for female high school athletes. The program is rated Promising. Athletes who participated in the program had a statistically significant higher likelihood of reporting improved nutritional behaviors and decrease in lifetime alcohol and marijuana use, compared with control group athletes. However, findings regarding the use of diet pills were mixed, and there was no statistically significant impact on the use of athletic-enhancing substances. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Adult Treatment Drug Courts (Multi-site) |
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Drug courts, Diversion, Mental health | This is a program that focuses on drug-involved individuals and aims to provide specialized substance abuse treatment services. The program is rated Promising. Participants in the treatment group were statistically significantly less likely to report drug use and criminal activity than participants in the comparison group. However, there was no statistically significant effect on incarceration, socioeconomic status, mental health, family support, or homelessness. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Media Detective |
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Schools, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Youth development, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a media literacy and substance use prevention program intended for third- through fifth-grade students. The program is rated Promising. Intervention group students demonstrated less intention to use alcohol and tobacco in the future, better deconstruction skills, higher understanding of persuasive intent, and higher self-efficacy, compared with control group students. These differences were statistically significant. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Media Ready |
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Schools, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Youth development, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a media literacy and substance use prevention program for sixth- through eighth-grade students. The program is rated Promising. Intervention group students reported less intention to use tobacco in the future, compared with control group students, at the 2-week follow up (a statistically significant difference). However, there were no statistically significant differences between the groups in intention to use alcohol in the future. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Midwestern Prevention Project (MPP) |
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Schools, Marijuana, Alcohol, Juvenile health, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Youth development, Drug abuse prevention and education, Drugs, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Legal substances | This is a comprehensive program intended to promote an antidrug message throughout communities and prevent substance use among middle school students. The program is rated Effective. One study found that treatment group students had statistically significant lower past-month and past-week rates of cigarette use, compared with control group students. However, a second study found no statistically significant differences in smoking, alcohol, or marijuana use between groups. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Taking Charge of Your Life |
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Schools, Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Youth development, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a school-based, universal substance abuse prevention program for middle school students. The program is rated Ineffective. Intervention students self-reported greater use of alcohol and cigarettes and more binge drinking, compared with control group students, at the 5-year follow up. These differences were statistically significant. There were no statistically significant differences between groups in marijuana use. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Brief Strategic Family Therapy |
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Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Treatment, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Legal substances, Drugs | This is a family-based intervention designed to prevent and treat youth behavior problems. The program is rated Promising. Intervention families showed a statistically significant greater likelihood of being engaged and retained in treatment, and intervention youth showed statistically significant greater improvement in conduct disorder and socialized aggression. There were no statistically significant differences in adolescent alcohol use or improved family functioning. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Too Good for Violence |
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Schools, Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, School safety, Youth development, School climate, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a school-based violence prevention and character education program designed to improve student behavior and minimize aggression. The program is rated Promising. The program had statistically significant positive effects on risk and protective factors related to student violence for students in grade 3. There were also statistically significant positive effects on factors related to alcohol, tobacco, drug use, and violence for students in grades 9 through 12. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Coping Power Program |
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Schools, Marijuana, Alcohol, School safety, Juvenile delinquency, Crime prevention, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Substance abuse, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a cognitive-based intervention for aggressive children and for their parents to increase the children’s competence, study skills, social skills, and self-control during the transition to middle school. The program is rated Promising. There were mixed results on self-reported delinquency, but treatment group children showed a statistically significant reduction in substance use and improvement in aggressive behavior, compared with control group children. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Project Venture |
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Tribal youth, Schools, Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Youth development, Recreation, Afterschool, Legal substances, Drugs, Juvenile (under 18) | This is an outdoor experiential prevention program for at-risk American Indian youth, which concentrates on American Indian cultural values to promote prosocial development and avoidance of alcohol and other drugs. The program is rated Promising. Treatment group youth reported statistically significant lower growth in overall substance use (cigarettes, marijuana, alcohol, and other illicit substances), compared with control group youth, at the 18-month follow up. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Project ALERT |
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Schools, Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Drugs, Substance abuse | This is a school-based program for seventh and eighth graders, which was designed to prevent substance use initiation and reduce future substance use. The program is rated Ineffective. There were no statistically significant differences in alcohol use, marijuana use, or cigarette use between students who participated in the program and control group students. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Mandatory-Random Student Drug Testing |
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Schools, Cocaine, Heroin, Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Crime prevention, Opioids | This program is designed to deter students from substance use and to identify and refer those with substance use problems to counseling or treatment services. Students and their parents sign consent forms, agreeing to the students’ random drug testing as a condition of participation in athletics and other school-sponsored extracurricular activities. The program is rated Ineffective. There were no statistically significant effects on overall substance use or intentions to use substances. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Baltimore City (Md.) Family Recovery Program |
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Drug courts, Family courts, Children exposed to violence, Drug-Related Victimization, Case Management, Family reunification, Foster care/child welfare system, Problem-solving courts, Sanctions, Intimate partner violence | This is a family drug court program designed to serve families involved with child welfare as a result of parental substance use. The program is rated Promising. Treatment group parents had a statistically significant higher percentage of experiencing family reunification, compared with comparison group parents. Children of treatment group parents also had a statistically significant fewer number of days in non-kinship or long-term foster care compared with children of comparison group parents. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Women's Health CoOp (Pretoria, South Africa) |
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Victimization, Rape and sexual assault, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a woman-focused, HIV intervention designed to reduce sex-risk behavior, substance use, and victimization among at-risk and underserved women, including female sex workers. The program is rated Promising. Compared with the comparison group, non-sex workers in the intervention reported less sexual abuse, alcohol use, and verified drug abuse, and sex workers in the intervention reported less physical abuse and verified drug abuse. These differences were statistically significant. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: DARE to be You |
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Substance abuse, Drugs | This is a multilevel prevention program for high-risk families with children ages 2–5 years, which is designed to lower children’s risk of future substance abuse and other high-risk activities by improving parenting skills. The program is rated Promising. Intervention group parents reported a statistically significant improvement in child development, a reduction in child oppositional behaviors, and an improvement in parental self-efficacy, compared with control group parents. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Transitional Case Management |
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Parole, Corrections, Community corrections, Reentry, Alcohol, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a strengths-based, case management intervention that provided expanded case management services to incarcerated persons during their transition from incarceration to the community. The program is rated Ineffective. There were no statistically significant differences between the transitional case management treatment group and the standard referral control group in nights spent in residential substance abuse treatment or in past 30-day drug or alcohol use, at the 9-month follow up. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Families Facing the Future |
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Cocaine, Heroin, Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Case Management, Crime prevention, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Drugs, Illegal substances, Legal substances, Drugs, Opioids | This is an intensive family program combining relapse prevention and parenting skills training. This program is rated Ineffective. Treatment group parents demonstrated statistically significantly less heroin use, fewer domestic conflicts, and higher refusal skills than control parents did. There were no statistically significant differences in other drug use by parents, child drug and alcohol use, child delinquency, child-reported negative peers, or child school attachment. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Drug Market Analysis Program (Jersey City, NJ) |
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Drug trafficking, Community policing, Problem-oriented policing, Situational crime prevention, Drug markets | This is a hot spots policing program that targeted identified drug activity locations to reduce public disorder by engaging local residents and business owners and applying pressure through crackdowns. The program is rated Promising. The treatment group hot spots showed a statistically significant decrease in disorder-related offenses, compared with the control group hot spots. However, there were no statistically significant differences in violent or property offenses. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Breath Alcohol Ignition Interlock Device Program (Illinois) |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Vehicles, Crime prevention, Traffic laws, Traffic law enforcement, Law enforcement, Drugs, Legal substances, Substance abuse | The program requires installation of ignition interlock devices in motor vehicles to test the breath–alcohol level of drivers convicted of alcohol-related traffic violations. The device prohibits alcohol-impaired drivers from starting and operating the vehicle. The program is rated Promising. Treatment group individuals who had the device installed had statistically significantly lower rates of rearrest for alcohol-related violations, compared with the control group, at the 3-year follow-up. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Strengthening Families Program: For Parents and Youth 10-14 |
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Alcohol, Substance abuse, Youth development, Child health and welfare, Drugs, Marijuana, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a family-based intervention that seeks to reduce substance use and other problem behaviors in youth ages 10–14. The program is rated Promising. Treatment group youth showed a statistically significant greater number of intervention-targeted behaviors and alcohol refusal skills and a lower initiation of alcohol use, compared with the control group. Treatment group parents, compared with the control group parents, showed a statistically significant greater number of parenting competencies. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Care, Assess, Respond, Empower (CARE) |
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Mental health, Dropout/expulsion, Suicide, Youth development, Child health and welfare, Schools, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a brief school-based, suicide-prevention program that seeks to reduce suicide risks and co-occurring health-related behaviors (such as depression and drug use). The program is rated No Effects. Intervention youth reported statistically significant lower levels of depression, compared with usual-care comparison group youth, but there were no statistically significant effects on suicide-risk behaviors, drug-involvement behaviors, drug-use control problems, and adverse drug consequences. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Raising Healthy Children |
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Schools, Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Youth development, School climate, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Legal substances, Drugs | This is a school-based intervention designed to promote positive youth development and reduce substance use. This program is rated Promising. Intervention students showed statistically significant improvements in teacher ratings of antisocial behavior and social competency and reported a statistically significant decline in frequency of alcohol and marijuana use, compared with control students. However, there were no differences in prevalence of alcohol, marijuana, or cigarette use. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Healthy Families America |
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Children exposed to violence, Case Management, Home visiting, Positive youth development, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Crime prevention, Drugs, Child protection, Intimate partner violence | This is a home-visitation program for expectant and new parents, which was designed to prevent child abuse or neglect. The program is rated No Effects. Treatment group mothers showed statistically significant improvements on some outcomes, such as parental stress and discipline strategies, compared with control group mothers. However, there were no statistically significant differences between the groups in neglect, foster care placement, or substantiated child protective services reports. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: New South Wales (Australia) Prison Methadone Maintenance Program |
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Heroin, Corrections, Inmate programs, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Cocaine, Substance abuse, Illegal substances, Drugs, Opioids | This is a prison-based, methadone maintenance program in Australia, which is designed to reduce recidivism, prevent the spread of blood-borne viral infections (HIV and hepatitis) in prison, and encourage continuation of treatment in the community following release. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant effects on rates of mortality, recidivism, or hepatitis C infections. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Project Northland |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Schools, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Legal substances, Drugs | This was a school and community intervention that targeted children at an early age to prevent and reduce underage alcohol use. This program is rated Promising. The treatment group showed statistically significant reductions in alcohol use, binge drinking, and successful alcohol purchases by young-appearing buyers, compared with the comparison group. However, there was no statistically significant difference between groups in attitudes toward substance use. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Linking the Interests of Families and Teachers (LIFT) |
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Schools, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, School safety, Youth development, School climate, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a program designed to prevent the development of aggressive and antisocial behaviors in children in elementary school. The program is rated Effective. Youth who participated in the intervention demonstrated statistically significant reductions in physical aggression; in initiation of alcohol and tobacco; and in use over time of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs; compared with control youth. However, there were no significant differences between groups in initiation of illicit drugs. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: LifeSkills® Training |
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Schools, Marijuana, Alcohol, Juvenile health, Mental health, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Youth development, Drug abuse prevention and education, Drugs, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Legal substances | This is a classroom-based, drug abuse–prevention program for upper elementary and junior high school students. This program is rated Effective. Students who participated in the program reported a statistically significant decrease in prevalence of cigarette, alcohol, and polydrug use; and slower growth in initiation of substance use, compared with control students. However, there were no significant differences between groups on self-reported marijuana use. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Motivational Interviewing (MI) for Substance Abuse Issues of Juveniles in a State Facility |
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Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Juvenile detention, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a person-centered counseling method designed to foster motivation for change in youth who abuse alcohol and marijuana. The program is rated No Effects. Participants showed a statistically significant reduction in likelihood to exhibit negative treatment engagement and drive under the influence of alcohol, compared with control youth; however, there were no significant differences in other outcomes such as positive treatment engagement or driving under the influence of marijuana. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention of College Students (BASICS) |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Schools, Alcohol, Underage drinking, Campus, Substance abuse, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a preventive intervention designed to help college students make better decisions about alcohol use. The program is rated Effective. The intervention group showed statistically significant reductions in negative consequences of drinking (for example, accidents, violence or academic problems) and peak blood alcohol content. However, findings were mixed with regard to quantities consumed, and there was no statistically significant difference between groups in frequency of drinking. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Multisystemic Therapy - Substance Abuse |
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Cocaine, Marijuana, Alcohol, Mental health, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Violent offenders, Youth development, Home visiting, Treatment, Young juvenile offenders, Child health and welfare, Juvenile delinquency, Juvenile detention, Courts, Drug courts, Problem-solving courts, Illegal substances, Drugs, Legal substances, Drugs | This version of multisystemic therapy is for adolescents with substance abuse and dependency issues. This program is rated Effective. Treatment youth showed statistically significant reductions in marijuana use and in aggressive behavior and convictions for aggressive behavior, compared with control group youth. However, no significant differences between groups were found for symptoms of mental health, criminal behavior, or alcohol or cocaine use. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Good Behavior Game |
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Mental health, Substance abuse, School safety, Youth development, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Alcohol, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a classroom management strategy designed to reduce aggressive and disruptive classroom behavior and create a classroom environment that is conducive to learning for students, ages 6 to 10. The program is rated Promising. At the 14-year follow up, the treatment group had statistically significant reductions in levels of alcohol-related disorders and antisocial personality disorder compared with participants in the control group. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Project Towards No Drug Abuse (Project TND) |
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Schools, Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Treatment, Drug abuse prevention and education, Drugs, Child health and welfare, Cocaine, Illegal substances, Legal substances, Drug treatment | This is a school-based program designed to prevent substance use. The program is rated Ineffective. There were no statistically significant effects on marijuana use, cocaine use, or on prevalence of getting drunk, and mixed effects on tobacco use, alcohol use, and hard drug use. There was a statistically significant improvement for the treatment group in overall substance use and an index of all hard drug use. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Family Matters |
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Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Legal substances, Drugs, Juvenile (under 18) | This is a family-based program designed to prevent and reduce tobacco and alcohol use among children between the ages of 12 and 14. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences found between treatment group youth and control group youth in tobacco and alcohol use at the 12-month follow up. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Functional Family Therapy (FFT) |
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Probation, Mental health, Violent offenders, Treatment, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Juvenile delinquency, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Juvenile detention, Drugs, Substance abuse | This is a family-based prevention and intervention program for dysfunctional youth, ages 11 to 18, who are justice-involved or at risk for delinquency, violence, substance use, or other behavioral problems. The program is rated Effective. Program participants showed a statistically significant reduction in general recidivism and risky behavior, compared with control group participants. However, there were no differences between groups on felony recidivism or caregiver strengths and needs. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Modified Therapeutic Community for Individuals With Mental Illness and Chemical Abuse (MICA) Disorders Who Commit Offenses |
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Mental health, Corrections, Reentry, Correctional facilities, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Drugs | This program is an adaptation of the therapeutic community models used with individuals who have co-occurring drug abuse problems and mental health disorders. It offers a more flexible, more personalized, and less intense approach to achieve greater reductions in substance use and recidivism. This program is rated Promising. Participants in the treatment group showed statistically significant reductions in illegal drug use, compared with the control group. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Prison-Initiated Methadone Maintenance Treatment |
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Heroin, Drug testing, Drugs, Crime prevention, Inmate programs, Illegal substances, Cocaine, Opioids | This is a methadone maintenance treatment designed for currently incarcerated individuals with a heroin addiction. The program is rated Promising. Treatment group participants spent a greater number of days in community-based drug treatment following release and improved opioid drug test results, compared with control group participants. These differences were statistically significant. However, there were mixed results regarding cocaine use, criminal activity, and frequency of heroin use. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Behavioral Couples Therapy for Substance Abuse |
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Alcohol, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a therapy approach for drug- and alcohol-abusing couples and their families. The program is rated Promising. After 1 year, patients reported statistically significant reductions in drinking consequences; partner violence; and alcohol, drug, and family–social addiction severity index scores, compared with the comparison group. There were no statistically significant effects on other addiction severity indicators, days abstinent from substances, or relationship satisfaction. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Guiding Good Choices |
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Marijuana, Alcohol, Mental health, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Youth development, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a family-competency training program to promote healthy parent-child interactions and address children’s risk for early substance use. The program is rated Promising. Parent participants had a statistically significant improvement in intervention-targeted parenting behaviors, at 1-year posttest. Child participants had a statistically significant lower likelihood of alcohol-related problems and cigarette use, after 10 years, but there was no effect on being drunk and using illicit drugs. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Baltimore City (Md.) Drug Treatment Court |
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Drug courts, Problem-solving courts, Mental health, Substance abuse, Alcohol, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a drug treatment court that seeks to reduce rearrests and reconvictions for drug-involved individuals with substantial criminal and drug addiction histories. The program is rated Effective. Compared with the control group, program participants had a statistically significant fewer number of arrests at the 24-month and 15-year follow up, but not at the 36-month follow up. Participants also had a statistically significant fewer number of total convicted charges at the 15-year follow up. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Naltrexone for Persons on Federal Probation |
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Probation, Heroin, Corrections, Community corrections, Illegal substances, Substance abuse, Drugs, Cocaine, Opioids | This is a program that uses medication in the treatment of opioid addiction. The medication works by antagonizing opioid receptors and blocking the effects of opiates, usually heroin, which are consumed by addicts. The program is rated Promising. There were statistically significant reductions in opioid use and reincarceration among the treatment group, compared with the control group. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Bronx (NY) Treatment Court |
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Drug courts, Corrections, Probation, Community corrections, Recidivism, Problem-solving courts, Crime prevention | This program is an alternative to probation and confinement for first-time, nonviolent individuals convicted of drug offenses. The program is rated Promising. Treatment court participants had statistically significant lower conviction rates for any new offenses and drug offenses 1 year after program completion, compared with the comparison group. Program participants also had statistically significant lower conviction rates 3 years following the initial arrest. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Kansas City (MO) Police Department Street Narcotics Unit |
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Weapons violations, Drug possession, Drug trafficking, Cocaine, Evidence, Surveillance, Warrants, Problem-oriented policing, Law enforcement, Law enforcement operations, Arrests, Policing strategies, Crime prevention, Public order offenses | This was a special police unit that conducted raids of crack houses to reduce crack-related crime and improve public order in Kansas City, Mo. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences between the experimental and control groups in calls for service (including calls for violent, property, and disorder offenses) and reported offenses (including violent and property offenses). Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Queens (NY) Treatment Court |
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Drug courts, Problem-solving courts, Recidivism, Crime prevention | This is a drug court program for first-time, nonviolent persons convicted of felony drug offenses who are arrested in Queens County, N.Y. The court provides drug or alcohol treatment services to persons with persistent drug offenses who have a history of substance abuse. This program is rated Effective. There were statistically significant reductions in postarrest and post-program rearrest rates for program participants, compared with the comparison group. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Interim Methadone Maintenance (Baltimore, Md.) |
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Heroin, Illegal substances, Drugs, Cocaine, Opioids | This is a daily treatment program for opiate-addicted adults on waiting lists for comprehensive treatment who receive doses of methadone and emergency counseling. The program is rated Promising. Participants reported a statistically significant decrease in heroin use and had lower crime rates, compared with the waitlist control group. However, there was no statistically significant effect on cocaine use. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Amity In-Prison Therapeutic Community |
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Reentry, Corrections, Inmate programs, Drugs, Drug treatment | This program provides intensive treatment in a dedicated housing unit to male incarcerated persons with substance abuse problems during the last 9 to 12 months of their prison terms. The program is rated Promising. Participants had statistically significant lower reincarceration rates at the 24-month and 5-year follow-up periods, compared with the control group. There were no significant differences between the groups in reincarceration rates at the 36-month follow up or in drug use at the 5-year follow up. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Minnesota Prison-based Chemical Dependency Treatment |
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Inmate programs, Crime prevention, Recidivism, Drugs, Drug treatment, Drug treatment programs, Inmate drug treatment, Inmate drug treatment assistance programs | This is a prison-based chemical dependency treatment for incarcerated persons who abuse chemicals or are chemically dependent. The main goal is to reduce their recidivism rates once they reenter the community. The program is rated Promising. Those who received treatment showed statistically significant lower rates of rearrest, reconviction, and reincarceration, compared with the control group at the follow-up period. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Suffolk County (N.Y.) Drug Treatment Court |
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Drug courts, Drug possession, Cocaine, Heroin, Marijuana, Drug abuse prevention and education, Drugs, Problem-solving courts, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Opioids | This program is an alternative to incarceration for drug-abusing defendants, which provides substance abuse treatment and education, case management, and intensive supervision. The program is rated Effective. Treatment group participants had a statistically significant lower likelihood of recidivating and experienced a greater length of time between initial arrest and first rearrest, compared with the comparison group. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Post-Rape Video Intervention |
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Marijuana, Alcohol, Violent crime, Rape and sexual assault, Victims of crime, Drugs | This intervention is designed to reduce distress associated with forensic rape examinations and reduce the victims’ risk of developing psychopathology and substance use after an assault. The program is rated No Effects. At the 6-month follow up, there were no statistically significant differences between the treatment and nontreatment groups in alcohol, marijuana, or hard drug use, or in symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, or depression. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Community and Law Enforcement Resources Together (ComALERT) |
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Parole, Mental health, Reentry, Corrections, Community corrections, Corrections, Employment initiatives, Legal substances, Drugs, Policing strategies, Crime prevention | This is a reentry program in Brooklyn, N.Y., that provides substance abuse treatment, employment, and housing services for parolees. The program is rated Promising. Participants demonstrated a statistically significant lower likelihood of being rearrested or reconvicted, compared with the matched control group. However, there were no significant differences in employment and earnings, cohabitating with a partner and regular contact with their children, or drug and alcohol use. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care-Adolescents |
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Mental health, Substance abuse, Violent offenders, Trauma, Case Management, Family reunification, Foster care/child welfare system, Youth development, Treatment, Young juvenile offenders, Juvenile delinquents, Crime prevention, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Juvenile detention, Juvenile delinquency, Drugs, Drug treatment | This is a behavioral treatment alternative to residential placement for adolescents with antisocial behavior, emotional disturbance, and delinquency. The program is rated Effective. Treatment group boys showed a statistically significant drop in criminal referral rates, criminal activities, and days spent in lock up, compared with comparison group boys. Treatment group girls showed a statistically significant reduction in delinquency, compared with comparison group girls. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Oregon Drug Courts |
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Drug courts, Problem-solving courts, Recidivism, Crime prevention | These statewide drug court programs were designed to provide comprehensive management for persons convicted of drug offenses—through increased treatment, monitoring, and interactions with the court judge—to achieve reductions in reoffending and better drug treatment outcomes for substance users. This program is rated Promising. Individuals who participated in drug court programs had statistically significant reductions in recidivism rates and number of rearrests, compared with the control group. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA) |
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Marijuana, Alcohol, Juvenile health, Mental health, Substance abuse, Reentry, Juvenile delinquency, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Crime prevention, Juvenile detention, Drugs, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a behavioral intervention for youth, which is designed to reduce drug and alcohol use and promote an abstinent lifestyle. The program is rated Promising. Participants showed a statistically significant reduction in alcohol use, other drug use, and depressive symptoms, and an increase in linkage to continuing care services, adherence to the continuing care model, and social stability. However, there was no statistically significant effect on high-risk behaviors or delinquency. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Forever Free |
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Parole, Corrections, Prisons, Recidivism, Reentry, Crime prevention, Employment initiatives, Inmate assistance programs, Drugs | This prison-based substance abuse treatment program for women near the end of their incarceration period is designed to reduce substance use and recidivism following release. The program is rated Promising. The intervention group reported statistically significantly fewer arrests and reconvictions and less drug use at follow up compared with the comparison group. However, there was no statistically significant effect on reincarceration and employment. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Fourth R Curriculum |
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Dating violence, School safety, Rape and sexual assault, Crime prevention, Juvenile delinquency, Juvenile (under 18), Crime prevention, Victimization, Intimate partner violence, Violent crime, Victims of crime, Drugs | This interactive classroom curriculum is designed to reduce youth dating violence by addressing bullying, unsafe sexual behavior, and substance use. The program is rated No Effects. The program had small, statistically significant effects on decreasing dating violence and sexual harassment/assault victimization. However, there were no significant effects on sexual harassment/assault perpetration, peer violence perpetration or victimization, sexual activity, substance use, or prosocial attitudes. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: San Diego (Calif.) Drug Abatement Response Team (DART) |
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Asset forfeiture, Fines, Problem-oriented policing, Crime prevention, Drug abuse prevention and education, Drugs, Law enforcement operations, Law enforcement, Policing strategies | This is a program designed to reduce drug dealing at residential rental properties by encouraging improved property management practices. The program is rated Effective. The treatment group that implemented the full program experienced a statistically significant reduction in crime, compared with the control group However, there was no statistically significant difference between the treatment and control groups in the eviction of persons convicted of drug offenses. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Athletes Training and Learning to Avoid Steroids (ATLAS) |
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Schools, Alcohol, Prescription drugs, Substance abuse, Drug abuse prevention and education, Drugs, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare | This is a multicomponent school-based drug and alcohol prevention program for male high school athletes. The program is rated Promising. The intervention was associated with statistically significant reductions in participants’ intent to use steroids, and statistically significant increases in their knowledge of the negative side effects of steroids and in their ability to refuse steroids and other drugs. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Maryland Ignition Interlock Program |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Vehicles, Crime prevention, Traffic laws, Traffic law enforcement, Law enforcement, Legal substances, Substance abuse, Drugs | This Maryland program was designed to decrease the number of subsequent alcohol-related traffic violations for drivers with multiple alcohol offenses. The program is rated Effective. Those in the ignition interlock group had statistically significant fewer subsequent alcohol traffic violations compared with the control group. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Brooklyn (NY) Treatment Court |
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Drug courts, Problem-solving courts, Recidivism, Crime prevention | This drug court program offers substance abuse treatment for nonviolent felony and misdemeanor drug offenses. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences between the drug court participants and the comparison group in 2-year post-program recidivism or 4-year post-arrest convictions for a drug offense. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Delaware KEY/Crest Substance Abuse Programs |
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Corrections, Correctional facilities, Prisons, Inmate programs, Reentry, Drugs, Rape and sexual assault | This program uses a drug treatment continuum of prison-based therapeutic community and residential work release for drug-involved convicted persons. The program is rated Promising. Results showed statistically significant increases in remaining drug-free after 3 years and increases in condom use after 6 months; however, there were no statistically significant effects in being injection-free (after 6 months) or arrest-free (after 3 years). Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Multnomah County (Ore.) Sanction Treatment Opportunity Progress (STOP) Drug Diversion Program |
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Drug courts, Corrections, Community corrections, Parole, Problem-solving courts, Drug treatment | This is a drug court program that focuses on providing treatment services for persons facing first-offense drug charges. The program is rated Effective. In addition to showing statistically significant lower rates of subsequent arrests, convictions, felony arrests, drug arrests, and parole and probation violations, program participants had higher scores in positive adjustment, compared with control group participants at the 2-year follow up. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Guam Adult Drug Court |
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Drug courts, Drug possession, Problem-solving courts, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Diversion, Substance abuse | This is a drug court diversion program designed to help participants achieve sobriety and reduce involvement with the criminal justice system, by connecting them with treatment services soon after arrest. The program is rated Promising. The treatment group showed statistically significant reductions in recidivism for general and drug-related crime, compared with the control group at the 3-year follow up. However, there were no differences between groups in rates of positive drug tests. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Weed and Seed (Miami, Fla.) |
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Gang Crime, Assault, Gun violence, Homicide, Drug trafficking, Schools, Community policing, Problem-oriented policing, Situational crime prevention, Treatment, Law enforcement operations, Problem-oriented policing, Arrests, Violent crime, Policing strategies, Drugs, Drug treatment | This is a community-based approach to reducing and preventing crime while revitalizing the community. This program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences in rates of violent crime between the treatment and comparison areas following the crackdown. However, drug offenses increased significantly in the treatment areas, compared with the comparison areas. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: San Juan County (N.M.) DWI First-Offense Program |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Alcohol, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Driving Under the Influence (DUI), Traffic laws, Traffic law enforcement, Law enforcement, Substance abuse, Legal substances, Drugs, Intimate partner violence | This is a program for people arrested for the first time for driving while intoxicated (DWI). The program seeks to reduce DWI rearrest rates. The program is rated Promising. The treatment group showed statistically significant improvement on all three measures of alcohol use (total consumption, drinking days, and average blood–alcohol content), compared with the control group. However, there was no statistically significant difference between groups on rates of DWI rearrests. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: TCU Mapping-Enhanced Counseling for Substance Users |
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Cocaine, Heroin, Drug testing, Drugs, Substance abuse, Illegal substances, Opioids | This program consists of a cognitive technique for incorporating graphic visualization tools into the counseling process for substance users. The program is rated Promising. The mapping-enhanced counseling group showed a statistically significant reduction in positive drug tests for opiates and cocaine at the 6-month posttest, compared with the control group. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) Community-Based Mentoring (CBM) Program |
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Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Trauma, Youth development, Child health and welfare, Juvenile delinquency, Drugs | This program offers one-to-one mentoring in a community setting for at-risk youth between the ages of 6 and 18. This program is rated Effective. It was associated with a statistically significant reduction in initiating drug and alcohol use and antisocial behavior among mentored youth, compared with non-mentored youth. Mentored youth also showed statistically significant improvement in relationships with parents and academic performance (i.e., better grades and fewer absences). Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Jackson County (Ore.) Community Family Court |
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Drug courts, Family courts, Children exposed to violence, Trauma, Case Management, Family reunification, Foster care/child welfare system, Intimate partner violence | This program is for parents whose children are wards of the state. The program is rated Effective. Intervention parents had statistically significant improvements in treatment outcomes and lower rates of rearrest, compared with control parents. Children of intervention parents experienced statistically significant improvements in child welfare outcomes, compared with children of control group participants. There were no significant differences between groups for placement stability. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Ottawa County (Mich.) Sobriety Court Program |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Jails, Correctional facilities, Corrections, Problem-solving courts, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Traffic laws, Law enforcement, Traffic law enforcement, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a court program in western Michigan designed to divert people convicted of driving under the influence (DUI) from jail, eliminate substance use, and reduce recidivism. The program is rated Promising. At the 2-year follow up, program participants were less likely to be rearrested and had longer time to first-rearrest, compared with control group participants. These differences were statistically significant. However, there were no significant differences between groups for alcohol or drug Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) (1983-2009) |
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Schools, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare | This is a school-based drug use prevention program, taught by police officers, which was designed for students in the sixth through 12th grades. The primary goal was to teach peer resistance and refusal skills so that adolescents can say “no” to drugs. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences between treatment and control group participants in drug use, attitudes toward drug use, or self-esteem. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Nashville (Tenn.) Drug Market Intervention |
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Drug possession, Drug trafficking, Surveillance, Community policing, Problem-oriented policing, Drug markets, Crime prevention, Arrests | This is a policing program that used community mobilization, strategic planning, and pulling-levers notifications to reduce drug dealing in a high-crime area in Nashville, Tenn. The program is rated Promising. At the postintervention, there was a statistically significant decline in drug crime incidents in the target area, compared with the adjacent comparison area and the rest of Nashville. But there were no statistically significant effects on violent or property offenses or calls for service. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Hawaii Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE) |
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Drug testing, Probation, Reentry, Corrections, Community corrections | This is a community supervision strategy for substance-abusing probationers, particularly those who have long histories of drug use and involvement with the criminal justice system and are considered at high risk of failing probation or returning to prison. The program is rated Promising. Participants were less likely to miss appointments with probation officers, use drugs, and be arrested, compared with the control group. These differences were statistically significant. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: SafERteens |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Alcohol, Juvenile health, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Violent offenders, Trauma, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a program comprised of a 35-minute therapy session for adolescents who received care in emergency rooms, designed to reduce subsequent violent behavior and alcohol use. The program is rated No Effects. The intervention groups showed statistically significant improvements on attitudinal measures of violence and alcohol use, compared with the control group; however, there were no statistically significant differences between the groups in behavior changes related to alcohol or violence. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Engaging Moms Program for Mothers in Family Drug Court (Miami, Fla.) |
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Drug courts, Family courts, Family reunification, Problem-solving courts, Child abuse, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Crime prevention, Alcohol, Legal substances | This is a gender-specific, family-based intervention designed to help drug-using mothers who participate in family drug court to maintain their parental rights. The program is rated No Effects. The program had no statistically significant effects on child welfare outcomes, self-reported drug use, physical child abuse potential, overall psychological stress, self-reported alcohol use, family and social functioning, psychiatric problems, and urinalysis results. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Drug Treatment Alternative to Prison (DTAP) |
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Drug testing, Corrections, Prisons, Inmate programs, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Courts, Diversion, Prosecution | This program is the first prosecution-led, residential drug treatment diversion program designed to divert people convicted of nonviolent felony drug offenses to community-based residential treatment. This program is rated Promising. Controlling for time spent in the community following release from prison, the intervention showed statistically significant positive effects on recidivism, time to first rearrest, and rearrest for program participants, compared with the control group. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Probation Case Management for Women Charged With Drug-Involved Offenses (San Francisco, Calif.) |
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Probation, Corrections, Community corrections, Drugs | This intervention for drug-involved females who have been convicted of an offense incorporated elements of substance abuse treatment, intensive supervision probation, and case management. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences between the probation case management group and the standard probation group on measures of incarceration rates, substance abuse, psychiatric symptoms, or service use at the 12-month follow up. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Across Ages | | | Schools, Substance abuse, Truancy, Youth development, Positive youth development, Drug abuse prevention and education, Drugs, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Juvenile delinquency | This is an intergenerational mentoring initiative designed to delay or reduce substance use by increasing the resiliency and protective factors of at-risk middle school youth. The program is rated Ineffective for improving outcomes related to alcohol use, marijuana use, self-control, problem behaviors, school absences, grades, and bonding. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Multisystemic Therapy–Family Integrated Transitions (MST-FIT) | | | Mental health, Substance abuse, Reentry, Youth development, Home visiting, Treatment, Young juvenile offenders, Corrections, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Drugs, Drug treatment | This intervention provides integrated individual and family services to juveniles who have co-occurring mental health and chemical dependency disorders during their transition from incarceration back into the community. The program is rated Promising for reducing felony recidivism. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: CHOICE | | | Schools, Alcohol, Underage drinking, School safety, Afterschool, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Substance abuse, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a voluntary afterschool program for middle school aged youths to inform them about substance use and prevent them from starting or continuing alcohol use. The program is rated Effective for reducing alcohol use frequency, and Ineffective for reducing heavy alcohol use and improving alcohol resistance self-efficacy (the self-confidence to resist alcohol). Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: The Pathways Home Foster Care Reunification Intervention | | | Family reunification, Foster care/child welfare system, Drugs | This is a preventive intervention intended to reunite children returning home to their parents after their first stay in foster care. The program sought to prevent reunification failures when children were returned home to their biological parents by supporting parents and by making the transition a smooth process for both immediate and continued parenting success. The program is rated Promising for improving encouragement strategies. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: JOBSTART | | | Dropout/expulsion, Truancy, Jobs and workforce development, Drug abuse prevention and education, Drugs, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Employment initiatives | This is a community- and school-based program designed to increase academic skills and job placement in disadvantaged youth. The program is rated Effective for increasing receipt of education or training and increasing receipt of a GED. The program is rated Ineffective for increasing total earnings and employment, reducing receipt of food stamps, and reducing arrests and drug use. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Lions Quest Skills for Adolescence (SFA) | | One study | Schools, Cocaine, Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, School climate, Drug abuse prevention and education, Drugs, Illegal substances, Legal substances | This is a school-based life skills training curriculum aimed at developing middle-school students’ social skills and competencies for resisting and reducing tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use. The program is rated Promising for reducing marijuana use. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: CHAT (Motivational Interviewing for Adolescents At-Risk for Substance Use) | | | Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Legal substances | This program uses motivational interviewing in primary care settings for adolescents at risk for substance use. The program is rated Effective for reducing the number of negative consequences experienced as a result of alcohol use and the number of negative consequences experienced as a result of marijuana use. The program is rated Ineffective for increasing one’s belief in their ability to resist using a substance, reducing alcohol use and marijuana use, and time around substance using peers. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Stepped Collaborative Care for Adolescents (Washington State) | | | Alcohol, Mental health, Substance abuse, Children exposed to violence, Trauma, Treatment, Legal substances, Drugs | This is an inpatient/outpatient integrated care intervention for injured adolescents designed to reduce violence risk behaviors as well as posttraumatic stress disorder and depressive symptoms by providing a variety of services to adolescents following a traumatic physical injury. The program is rated Promising for reducing weapon carrying. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Plus Mindfulness Meditation for Adolescent Alcohol Consumption (Australia) |
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Schools, Alcohol, Underage drinking, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Substance abuse, Legal substances, Drugs, Promising Evidence Rating | This program uses psycho–social and present-moment awareness techniques to target adolescents’ alcohol-related cognitions and prevent their alcohol use. The program is rated Promising. Adolescents who received the intervention had reduced growth of alcohol consumption, compared with adolescents in the control group. There were no statistically significant differences between the groups in both negative and positive alcohol expectancies and drinking refusal self-efficacy. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Imprisonment for Individuals Who Committed a Drunk Driving Offense (New South Wales, Australia) |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Alcohol, Prisons, Corrections, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Courts, Traffic laws, Traffic law enforcement, Law enforcement, Substance abuse, Legal substances, Drugs, No Effects Evidence Rating | This involves prison time for individuals who have committed drunk-driving offenses to reduce their risk of recidivism upon their release. The program is rated Ineffective. There was no statistically significant difference between individuals in the treatment group (who received prison time) and the comparison group (who received a suspended imprisonment sentence) on reoffending with a driving-while-under-the-influence-of-alcohol offense within 6 months’, 24 months’, or 5 years’ time. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Young Adult Family Check-Up (YA-FCU) |
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Schools, Juvenile health, Mental health, Youth development, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Drugs, Substance abuse, No Effects Evidence Rating | The program focuses on the relationship between young adults and their parents to prevent substance misuse and other high-risk behaviors and enhance protective factors such as improving communication and strengthening familial relationships, encouraging healthy peer and romantic relationships, and promoting self-efficacy. The program is rated Ineffective. It made no statistically significant impact on reducing the risk level for a problematic transition into young adulthood. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: New Orientation for Reducing Threats to Health from Secretive-problems That Affect Readiness (NORTH STAR) |
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Alcohol, Prescription drugs, Treatment, Military personnel, Crime prevention, Substance abuse, Drugs, Drug treatment | This is a prevention planning and implementation system designed to improve risk and protective factors, and reduce secretive problems, in military communities. The program is rated Ineffective. There were no statistically significant differences between the bases assigned to NORTH STAR and the comparison bases on measures of physical or emotional interpersonal violence/partner abuse, physical or emotional child abuse, hazardous drinking, suicidality, or prescription drug misuse. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: North Dakota’s 24/7 Sobriety Program |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Drug testing, Probation, Law enforcement, Sanctions, Traffic laws, Traffic law enforcement, Crime prevention, Legal substances, Substance abuse, Drugs | This program seeks to reduce the rearrests of individuals previously convicted of driving while under the influence (DUI) of alcohol or drugs through intensive testing and monitoring of drug and alcohol consumption. The program is rated Promising. There was a statistically significant decrease in the rates of DUI arrests by roughly 9 percent in counties that implemented the program, compared with counties that did not implement the program. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Risk Reduction through Family Therapy (RRFT) for Adolescents |
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Mental health, Substance abuse, Children exposed to violence, Trauma, Treatment, Rape and sexual assault, Violent crime, Crisis response, Juvenile (under 18), Drugs, Drug treatment | The goal of this exposure-based, integrative intervention was to reduce substance use and mental health problems in adolescents who have experienced trauma. The program is rated Promising. The program had a statistically significant impact on depressive and internalizing symptoms, family cohesion, and family conflict. There were mixed results for PTSD symptoms and substance use. There was no statistically significant impact on externalizing symptoms. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Community-Level Intervention on Alcohol-Related Motor Vehicle Crashes (Calif.) |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Regulatory offenses, Alcohol, Underage drinking, Law enforcement operations, Law enforcement, Traffic law enforcement, Traffic laws, Legal substances, Drugs | This program was designed to reduce excessive drinking among adolescents and young adults ages 12-25 through community-wide enforcement operations and awareness campaigns. The program is rated Promising. There was a statistically significant reduction in alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes among 15- to 30-year-old drivers in treatment group cities, compared with control group cities. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Daily Automated Telephony With a Brief Cognitive Intervention for Persons on Parole (Sweden) |
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Parole, Cell Phones, Mental health, Alcohol, Community corrections, Corrections, Reentry, Legal substances, Drugs | This was an automated telephony program designed for those recently paroled in Sweden that provided immediate feedback to participants and sent daily reports to their parole officers. The program is rated Promising. Treatment group participants reported statistically significantly less alcohol use, drug use, and internalizing behaviors at the 1-month follow-up, compared with control group participants. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Gender-Specific Drug Treatment Court (Midwestern State) |
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Probation, Drug courts, Problem-solving courts, Recidivism, Crime prevention | This is a drug court program that provides treatment services to women on probation to reduce their risk of reoffending. The program gives preference to women who have higher need and risk profiles, are mothers, and have substance use problems. The program is rated Promising. Women in the treatment group were statistically significantly less likely to have a new conviction, compared with similar women on probation who did not participate in the program, at the 2-year follow-up. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: The Impact of California’s Proposition 47 (The Reduced Penalties for Some Crimes Initiative) on Recidivism |
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Mental health, Sentencing guidelines, Drug possession, Prisons, Corrections, Correctional facilities, Drugs, Drug abuse prevention and education, Crime prevention | This is a policy reform passed by California voters to downgrade drug and property offenses from felonies to misdemeanors, to focus prison resources on the most-serious violent offenses, reinvest savings toward prevention, and reduce recidivism. The program is rated Promising. In an evaluation of recidivism, the intervention group had statistically significantly fewer rearrests and reconvictions for any crime or revocation, compared with the control group, at the 1-year follow-up. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Impact of Statewide Ignition Interlock Laws on Alcohol-Involved Crash Fatalities in the United States |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Alcohol, Vehicles, Crime prevention, Traffic accidents, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a drunk driving prevention initiative that seeks to reduce alcohol-involved crash fatalities by requiring the installation of ignition interlock devices on vehicles of all drivers convicted of driving under the influence. The program is rated Promising. Intervention states with a statewide ignition interlock requirement had a 15 percent decrease in alcohol-involved vehicle crash fatalities, compared with control states. This was a statistically significant difference. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Swift and Sure Sanctions Probation Program (Michigan) |
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Parole, Community corrections, Corrections, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Legal substances, Drugs | This is an alternative-to-incarceration program designed to respond swiftly with sanctions to probation violations of those at high-risk of re-offending. The overall goal is to reduce participants’ recidivism rates. The program is rated Promising. Participants had statistically significant reduction in recidivism rates (overall, misdemeanor, felony, property, drug/alcohol, and other) compared with the comparison group, but there was no statistically significant effects on violent recidivism. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Motivational Interviewing (MI) Training for Parole Officers in Colorado |
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Training, Parole, Community corrections, Probation, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Drugs, Violent crime | This is a client-centered counseling approach implemented as a job-training intervention for parole officers in Colorado. The intervention seeks to enhance parole officers’ communication skills to promote motivation for change and reduce recidivism among supervised people on probation. The program is rated Promising. People on probation in the intervention group showed a statistically significant reduction in recidivism outcomes, compared with people on probation in the comparison group. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Web-Based Sexual Assault Risk Reduction (SARR) for College Women |
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Situational crime prevention, Rape and sexual assault, Violent crime, Crime prevention, Victimization, Campus, Campus Crime, Schools, Substance abuse, Legal substances, Drugs | This was a program for college women who engaged in heavy episodic drinking to provide feedback on their risk perception and resistance to reduce sexual assault. The program is rated Ineffective. Program participants did not statistically significantly differ from those in the control group on measures of incapacitated attempted/completed rape frequency, alcohol-related sexual assault incidents/severity, or use of sexual assault protective behavioral strategies at the 3-month follow-up. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Community Reporting Engagement Support and Training (CREST) |
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Parole, Probation, Mental health, Community corrections, Corrections, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Drugs, Substance abuse | This is an enhanced day reporting center designed to reduce the risk of recidivism in people on probation with mental illnesses. It provides services such as substance abuse treatment and crisis intervention. The program is rated Promising. Treatment group individuals had a statistically significantly lower risk of conviction for any offense, compared with control group participants on standard probation. However, there was no statistically significant effect on the risk of conviction for a felo Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Cooperative Learning |
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Schools, Underage drinking, School safety, Youth development, School climate, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Drugs | This is a group-based learning approach that seeks to enhance peer relations by increasing opportunities for positive social integration between adolescents. The program is rated Promising. Students in intervention schools reported they were less willing to use alcohol, had fewer deviant peer affiliations, lower perceived student stress and emotional problems, and had higher academic engagement, compared with students in control schools. These differences were statistically significant. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Mystery Shop Programs to Reduce Underage Alcohol Sales |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Situational crime prevention, Legal substances, Drugs | This intervention seeks to increase staff ID checks for the sale of alcoholic beverages at licensed establishments, to help prevent sales to minors. The program is rated Effective. The results were mixed. One study found there was a statistically significant increase in age verification rates resulting from the intervention, whereas a second study found no statistically significant increases in ID-checking rates. Overall, the results suggest the intervention influenced ID-checking rates. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Reducing Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) Limits for Motor Vehicle Operations (New Jersey) |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Alcohol, Drugs, Legal substances, Substance abuse, Drugs | This program comprises legislation that was passed to reduce alcohol-related crash fatalities by lowering the blood alcohol concentration limit for adult drivers from 0.10 to 0.08. The program is rated Ineffective. There was a statistically significant reduction in passenger fatalities per crash after the implementation of the legislation; however, there were no statistically significant impacts on driver fatalities per crash or total fatalities per crash. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: The Substance Use Prevention Promoted by Eating Family Meals Regularly (SUPPER) Project |
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Substance abuse, Marijuana, Drugs | This program seeks to help parents become facilitators in preventing children’s substance misuse, by encouraging them to have five or more family meals together weekly. The program is rated Promising. Intervention group parents showed a statistically significant increase in talking with children about alcohol, compared with control group parents, but there were no statistically significant differences in number of family meals per week and talking with children about marijuana and other drugs. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Operation Regional Analytics for the Safety of Our Residents (RASOR) |
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Problem-oriented policing, Drugs, Substance abuse | This was a modified focused deterrence program that targeted high-risk persons in Massachusetts. The program aimed to increase their risks of getting caught and convicted while providing them with regular meetings with a case management team and a variety of services such as substance abuse treatment. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences between the treatment group and the control group in time-to-arraignment at the 1-year follow-up. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Creating Lasting Family Connections Fatherhood Program: Family Reintegration |
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Reentry, Recidivism, Corrections, Crime prevention, Drugs | This is a community-based program for adult males who received substance abuse treatment while incarcerated and are reentering the community. The goals are to reduce recidivism, substance abuse, and HIV/hepatitis infection rates, and promote fatherhood and relationship skills. This program is rated Promising. Program participants had a statistically significant lower likelihood of recidivating and demonstrated an increase in relationship skills, compared with the comparison group members. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Family Therapy for Adolescent Behavior Problems |
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Mental health, Substance abuse, Treatment, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Alcohol, Drugs, Legal substances | This program assessed the impact of a nonmanualized family-based treatment approach for adolescent behavior problems. The program is rated Ineffective. Results indicated that the treatment group experienced statistically significant reductions in adolescent-reported externalizing and internalizing behaviors. However, there were no statistically significant differences between groups in caregiver-reported externalizing and internalizing behaviors or in adolescent-reported alcohol or drug use. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Honest Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE) |
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Drug testing, Probation, Corrections, Community corrections, Crime prevention | This is a community supervision strategy that includes swift, certain, and fair responses to probation violations. The program is rated Ineffective. The treatment group had a statistically significant lower likelihood of having a positive drug test at the 12-month follow-up, but a statistically significant greater number of probation violations, compared with the control group. There were no statistically significant effects on recidivism (any arrest) or new convictions. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Be BOLD Yoga for High-Risk Adolescents |
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Schools, Marijuana, Alcohol, Mental health, Juvenile health, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Dropout/expulsion, Alternative schools, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a mindfulness-based yoga program intended to reduce substance use (and the subsequent negative effects of use) for adolescents at high risk of dropping out of school. The program is rated Ineffective. There were no statistically significant differences in measures of substance use, self-regulation, mood, mindfulness, or coping skills for youth who participated in the program, compared with the control group youth. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Delaware KEY Substance Abuse Program |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Mental health, Correctional facilities, Prisons, Drugs, Rape and sexual assault | This program is a prison-based therapeutic community for drug-involved individuals. The program is rated Promising. After 3 years, results showed statistically significant increases in remaining drug-free; however, there were no statistically significant effects in being arrest-free. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Delaware CREST Outreach Centers |
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Parole, Probation, Mental health, Alcohol-Related Offenses, Corrections, Correctional facilities, Reentry, Drugs | This is a residential work-release program that uses therapy, counseling and treatment for persons convicted of a crime with a history of substance use who are reentering society. The program is rated Promising. There were statistically significant increases in participants being injection-free at 6 months and being drug-free after 3 years; however, there were no statistically significant effects in condom use (at 6 months) or being arrest-free (after 3 years). Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Alcohol Literacy Challenge |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Schools, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Juvenile (under 18), Young adults (18-24), Campus, Schools, Child health and welfare, Drugs | This program consists of a single-session, group-delivered intervention for high school and college students, which is designed to alter alcohol expectancies and lower alcohol use. The program is rated Promising. The program was shown to have a statistically significant effect on modifying alcohol expectancy processes and reducing alcohol consumption in college students; however, there was no statistically significant impact on high school students. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Intensive Judicial Supervision (IJS) in Parramatta Drug Court (Australia) |
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Drug courts, Heroin, Courts, Problem-solving courts, Sanctions, Crime prevention, Substance abuse, Opioids | This intervention was designed to increase the level of judicial oversight on participants convicted of misdemeanor crimes in the Parramatta Drug Court program. The program was rated Promising. Results indicated that participants under intensive judicial supervision had lower rates of positive drug tests, compared with the comparison group. This difference was statistically significant. However, there were no statistically significant differences in sanctions, program progression or termination. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Coaching for Communities (CfC) [United Kingdom] |
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Youth development, Drug abuse prevention and education, Drugs, Juvenile delinquency, Child health and welfare, Employment initiatives, Substance abuse, Legal substances, Drugs, Alcohol | This is a mentoring program for youth who show low levels of antisocial behavior. This program was rated Promising. Youth in the program had statistically significant improvements in offending behavior, antisocial behavior, negative affect, association with antisocial peers, emotional well-being, and involvement in education or employment, compared with youth in the control group, but not in volume of offending behavior, use of alcohol or drugs, impulsivity, or aspirations for the future. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Master Mind |
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Schools, Alcohol, Juvenile health, Mental health, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Legal substances, Drugs | This was a mindfulness education and substance abuse prevention program for fourth- and fifth-grade students, which was designed to build self-regulatory skills and reduce intentions to use alcohol or tobacco. This program was rated Promising. There were statistically significant increases in measures of executive functioning, social problems, and aggression. There were no statistically significant effects on attention problems and intentions to use substances. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: School-Based Guided Self-Change |
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Schools, Juvenile health, Mental health, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Treatment, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Alcohol, Drugs, Legal substances | This brief, cognitive behavioral, motivational intervention was designed to address alcohol and other drug use as well as aggressive behaviors among English- and Spanish-speaking adolescents who were already involved in drugs and aggressive behavior. This program is rated Ineffective The study found no statistically significant differences in measures of substance use and aggressive behaviors between adolescents in the treatment group, compared with adolescents receiving standard care. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Free Talk |
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Juvenile courts, Alcohol-Related Offenses, Marijuana, Alcohol, Diversion, Youth/peer courts, Crime prevention, Recidivism, Juvenile delinquency, Substance abuse, Legal substances | This is a group, motivational interviewing program for adolescents with a first-time alcohol or drug offense. The goal of the program is to prevent negative consequences of alcohol and other drug use. This program is rated Ineffective. There were no statistically significant differences between the intervention and comparison groups on past month frequency of alcohol, heavy drinking, or marijuana use; alcohol or marijuana consequences; recidivism; delinquency; and alcohol and other drug use. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Family Drug Treatment Court (Snohomish County, WA) |
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Drug courts, Family courts, Drug-Related Victimization, Family reunification, Foster care/child welfare system | This is a program for parents who have substance abuse allegations and are involved in the child welfare system. The program is rated Effective. The study found that parent participants were more likely to have their children returned, more likely to experience a permanency-planning outcome, and less likely to have their parental rights terminated. Additionally, children of program participants spent less time in the child welfare system. These findings were statistically significant. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Decide Your Time (Delaware) |
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Drug testing, Probation, Corrections, Community corrections, Recidivism, Sanctions, Courts, Drugs | This was a program for chronic drug-using persons on probation that incorporated graduated sanctions with incentives to reduce recidivism and drug use among participants. The program is rated Ineffective. Implemented in Delaware, the program was shown to have no impact on the successful completion of probation, on re-arrests, or on drug use. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Brief Motivational Interviewing for Alcohol Use (Incarcerated Women) |
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Alcohol, Prisons, Correctional facilities, Corrections, Community corrections, Reentry, Substance abuse, Legal substances, Drugs | This program was designed to provide an alcohol intervention to incarcerated women with hazardous drinking habits who were being released from prison. The program is rated Ineffective. There were no statistically significant differences between the treatment and comparison groups on the number of days abstinent from alcohol consumption at the 6-month follow up. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Social Support Treatment with Drug Testing (Maryland) |
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Drug testing, Parole, Cocaine, Heroin, Corrections, Community corrections, Reentry, Crime prevention, Substance abuse, Cocaine, Opioids | This program involves social support integrated with regular drug testing for recently paroled individuals who have a history of heroin and cocaine abuse. The program is rated Promising. Program participants had a statistically significant lower rate of reconviction, arrest, and incarceration, compared with the comparison group; however, there were no statistically significant effects on employment. Program participants also had a statistically significant higher positive drug-testing rate. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Employment Intervention for Drug-Involved Offenders (Kentucky) |
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Drug courts, Problem-solving courts, Employment initiatives | This program for Kentucky drug court participants focuses on obtaining, maintaining, and upgrading employment. The intervention concentrates on job-skills and social-skills training. The program is rated Ineffective. There was a small, statistically significant improvement for program participants on multiple drug use in the past 30 days, but no statistically significant effects for days worked at a legitimate job, income from a legitimate job, property damage, and handling stolen goods. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Collaborative Behavioral Management in Six Sites |
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Parole, Corrections, Community corrections, Reentry, Drugs, Substance abuse | This program involved collaborative sessions among a parole officer, treatment counselor, and the person on parole. The intervention provided parole officers with positive tools to manage the behavior of people on parole. The program aimed to reduce substance use, crime, and re-arrest among drug-involved people on parole. The program is rated Ineffective. Results showed that the intervention did not significantly reduce re-arrest or overall drug use. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Recovery Management Checkups for Women Offenders (Cook County, Ill.) |
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Jails, Correctional facilities, Corrections, Reentry, Crime prevention, Recidivism, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Legal substances, Drugs | This intervention linked women who committed nonviolent offenses to community-based, substance use treatment after release from jail. It was designed to reduce recidivism and alcohol and drug use, and to promote long-term recovery. This program is rated Ineffective. The treatment group had a statistically significant greater likelihood of participating in substance use treatment; however, there were no significant effects for recidivism, alcohol and drug use, or number of days spent in jail. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Turning Point Multiple DUI Treatment Program |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Alcohol, Traffic laws, Crime prevention, Law enforcement, Legal substances, Substance abuse, Drugs | This was a residential treatment program that targeted individuals who committed multiple driving-under-the-influence (DUI) offenses. The program combined educational components with individualized treatment and therapy to address substance use. The program is rated Promising. The treatment group was statistically significantly less likely than the comparison group to be arrested for any new offense and specifically for a DUI offense, but not for committing an alcohol-related offense. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Residential Aftercare Component of Quehanna (PA) Motivational Boot Camp Program |
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Drug testing, Mental health, Corrections, Reentry, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Drugs | This program provides residential aftercare services for those with substance abuse issues who have completed the 6-month Quehanna (PA) Motivational Boot Camp Program. The program is rated Ineffective. An examination of the impact of both 30- and 90-day aftercare programs found no statistically significant effects of treatment of either dosage on recidivism. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: National Supported Work Demonstration Project (Multisite) |
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Recidivism, Employment initiatives, Drugs, Substance abuse | This program was designed to help hard-to-employ individuals acquire skills, habits, and credentials necessary to find and hold permanent, unsubsidized employment. The goal was to prepare individuals for regular employment, reduce unemployment, and reduce criminal behavior and substance use. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences on number of arrests and time to arrests between participants and nonparticipants. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Tulsa (OK) Family Drug Court |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Drug courts, Family courts, Family reunification, Foster care/child welfare system, Problem-solving courts, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Drugs, Drug treatment | This is a treatment court dedicated to cases of child abuse and neglect, in which parental substance abuse is one of the primary reasons for child welfare involvement. The program provides parenting training in conjunction with substance abuse treatment to increase the likelihood of reunification. The program is rated Effective. Families who received services through the Family Drug Court were statistically significantly more likely to reunify than comparison families. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Juvenile Breaking the Cycle (JBTC) Program (Lane County, Oregon) |
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Drug courts, Juvenile courts, Marijuana, Alcohol, Mental health, Substance abuse, Diversion, Case Management, Treatment, Young juvenile offenders, Crime prevention, Recidivism, Diversion, Legal substances, Drugs, Drug treatment | Using comprehensive assessments, the program identified, provided, and coordinated individualized services for high-risk, drug-involved, justice-involved juveniles. This program is rated Effective. Results suggest that JBTC participants were significantly less likely to recidivate and had statistically significantly fewer arrests, compared with non-JBTC participants. However, the impact on self-reported drug use was mixed. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: PROmoting School-Community-University Partnerships to Enhance Resilience (PROSPER) |
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Schools, Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Positive youth development, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Methamphetamine, Illegal substances, Drugs | This is a community-based program that was designed to address substance abuse and antisocial behavior. The program is rated Promising. Students in the schools that implemented the PROSPER model had statistically significant fewer conduct problems and lower lifetime illicit substance use, compared with students in control schools. However, there were no statistically significant impacts on driving after drinking alcohol or frequency of drunkenness. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Ada County (Idaho) Drug Court |
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Drug courts, Probation, Corrections, Community corrections, Problem-solving courts, Recidivism, Crime prevention | This program provides court-supervised, community-based outpatient drug treatment and case management services to persons convicted of a felony drug offense. The goals are to increase accountability, decrease the likelihood of recidivism, and reduce drug dependency. The program is rated Promising. Treatment group participants showed a statistically significant lower likelihood of recidivating, compared with comparison group participants who were placed on probation. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Abecedarian Project |
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Home visiting, Positive youth development, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Drugs, Substance abuse, Cocaine, Illegal substances | This was an early education intervention designed to improve cognitive and educational development among low-income children. The program is rated Promising. The treatment group showed a statistically significant greater likelihood of being enrolled in college and having held skilled employment, a lower likelihood of being a teen parent, and fewer depressive symptoms, compared with the control group. However, there were no statistically significant differences in incarceration or drug use. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Baltimore County (Md.) Juvenile Drug Court |
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Drug courts, Juvenile courts, Alcohol-Related Offenses, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Diversion, Treatment, Problem-solving courts, Drug treatment | This program represents an alternative to traditional processing in the juvenile justice system. Rather than going through court processing, youth with substance-abuse problems are placed in treatment. The goal is to reduce their use of drugs and criminal behavior. The program is rated Promising. At the 2-year follow up, program participants had fewer overall and drug-related rearrests, compared with a matched comparison group. These differences were statistically significant. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Classroom-Centered Intervention to Reduce Risk of Substance Use |
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Schools, Substance abuse, Youth development, Positive youth development, School climate, Drug abuse prevention and education, Drugs, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Alcohol, Legal substances | This program was a preventive intervention for first-grade students, which was designed to reduce substance use risk by improving teachers’ behavior-management skills and enhancing classroom curricula. The program is rated Promising. Overall, results were mixed. The treatment group showed a statistically significant lower likelihood of self-reporting initiation of tobacco use and other drugs, compared with the control group. The program had no statistically significant impact on alcohol, mariju Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Family-School Partnership Intervention to Reduce Risk of Substance Use |
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Schools, Substance abuse, Youth development, Positive youth development, School climate, Drug abuse prevention and education, Drugs, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Alcohol, Legal substances | The program was a universal, preventive intervention for first-grade students, designed to reduce the risk for substance use by improving teachers’ and parents’ communication and behavior-management skills. The program is rated Promising. Approximately 6 to 7 years after the program, participants showed a statistically significant lower likelihood of having initiated tobacco use, compared with nonparticipants. The program had no impact on alcohol, marijuana, inhalant, or other drug use. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Three Data Driven Supervision Protocols for Parole Violations (Georgia) |
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Drug testing, Parole, Probation, Corrections, Community corrections, Crime prevention, Drugs | In this program, new supervision protocols for substance abuse, joblessness, and chronic violators were created based on data gathered on the behavior of the paroled person and parole officer responses. The program is rated Ineffective. There was no significant impact on overall arrests or measures of recidivism. In fact, the treatment group had significantly more arrests for a new misdemeanor offense than the comparison group. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Washington State's Residential Drug Offender Sentencing Alternative |
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Corrections, Reentry, Inmate programs, Crime prevention, Recidivism, Courts, Drugs, Substance abuse | This program is an alternative to incarceration for felons with substance abuse problems. In lieu of confinement, they must successfully complete a residential, chemical-dependency treatment program in the community. The program is rated Promising. Residential DOSA was shown to statistically significantly reduce overall recidivism rates compared with prison-based DOSA. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Juvenile Justice Assessment Planning Referral Placement (JARPP) |
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Training, Parole, Probation, Personnel, Treatment, Case Management, Corrections, Community corrections, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Juvenile delinquency, Juvenile detention, Drugs, Substance abuse | This is a training program for juvenile justice probation/parole case managers (PCMs), to promote their use of evidence-based practices to identify the mental health and substance use needs of delinquent youth and increase youth’s access to services. The program is rated Promising. There were statistically significant reductions in re-referral and placement rates for youth whose PCMs received the enhanced training, compared with youth whose PCMs received the standard training or no training. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Random Drug Testing with Immediate Results and Immediate Sanctions |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Drug testing, Parole, Cocaine, Heroin, Alcohol, Reentry, Community corrections, Corrections, Crime prevention, Recidivism, Courts, Illegal substances, Opioids | This program was an experiment that was conducted to examine the efficacy of alternative methods of instant drug testing, and to determine how the different methods affected rates of relapse and recidivism of parolees with substance abuse issues. The program is rated Promising. The treatment group experienced a statistically significant decrease in rates of relapse, but no statistically significant difference in recidivism, compared with the control group. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: "Seeking Safety" for Incarcerated Women |
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Burglary, Mental health, Coping, Drugs, Substance abuse | This is a manualized cognitive–behavioral intervention for incarcerated women with co-occurring posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use disorders. The program is rated Promising. Evaluation results suggest that the program statistically significantly reduced PTSD and depression scores in program participants. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Moving to Opportunity Demonstration Program |
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Crime prevention, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Juvenile delinquency, Drugs, Violent crime | This is a housing mobility demonstration program intended to help move families from high-poverty public housing to low-poverty private housing to improve their lives. This program is rated Ineffective. The program was shown to have no statistically significant long-term effects on violent, property, drug, or general crime arrests. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Neighborhood Enrichment with Vision Involving Services, Treatment, and Supervision (NEW VISTAS) |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Drug testing, Probation, Schools, Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Intake/assessment, Community policing, Case Management, Youth development, Treatment, Comprehensive/wraparound services, Crime prevention, Recidivism, Juvenile detention, Drugs, Substance abuse | This program consisted of a comprehensive, neighborhood-based, family-focused service delivery model that employed wraparound services and case management for justice-involved families with identified substance abuse problems. The program is rated Promising. Treatment group youth had a statistically significant decrease in noninstitutional and institutional out-of-home placements, compared with comparison group youth. However, there was no statistically significant difference in recidivism. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Family Check-Up (FCU) for Adolescents |
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Positive youth development, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Mental health, Alcohol, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a family-centered intervention designed to assist families with high-risk adolescents. The goal is to reduce the growth of adolescents’ problem behaviors and substance abuse. The program is rated Promising. Participants showed statistically significantly less growth of antisocial behavior and in alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use compared with the control group. Participants also had stable GPAs from the start of middle school into high school and fewer school absences. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Rockford Pulling Levers Drug Market Intervention |
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Drug possession, Databases, Community policing, Patrol, Problem-oriented policing, Procedural justice, Drug markets, Crime prevention, Law enforcement | A problem-oriented policing strategy that aims to combat drug markets and the problems associated with them, in a high- crime neighborhood, through a deterrence-based, pulling levers framework. The program is rated Promising. The program was shown to significantly reduce nonviolent offenses in the target area, but not violent offenses. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: West Midlands (England) High-Crime-Causing Users (HCCU) |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Cocaine, Heroin, Problem-oriented policing, Arrests, Substance abuse, Drugs, Opioids | An intensive community-based partnership between police and treatment providers in West Midlands that provided enhanced delivery and coordinated efforts and resources to high-risk individuals to reduce their offending behavior. The program is rated Promising. The program was shown to significantly reduce the average number of arrests for participants. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Juvenile Drug Courts With Contingency Management and Multisystemic Therapy |
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Drug courts, Juvenile courts, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Problem-solving courts, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Corrections, Juvenile delinquency, Juvenile justice, Alcohol, Legal substances | This program incorporates contingency management protocols and multisystemic therapy into traditional juvenile drug court services to provide juveniles and families with additional engagement opportunities and support to reduce recidivism and substance abuse. The program is rated Promising. The program statistically significantly reduced alcohol and poly drug use, positive drug urine screens, status offenses, and property offenses. The program had mixed effects on marijuana use and offenses. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Youth-Nominated Support Team-Version II (YST-II) |
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Mental health, Suicide, Treatment, Child health and welfare, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Legal substances, Drugs, Juvenile (under 18), Drug treatment | This program was designed to provide adult support to suicidal youth following psychiatric care. The program is rated Promising. Program participants showed statistically significant improvements on mortality, suicide and drug-related deaths, outpatient psychotherapy sessions, medication follow-up sessions, and outpatient drug or alcohol treatment but not on suicidal ideation, suicide, depression, negative attitudes about the future, functional impairment, or inpatient drug or alcohol treatment. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Utah Juvenile Drug Courts |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Drug courts, Juvenile courts, Drug possession, Alcohol, Treatment, Problem-solving courts, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Juvenile delinquency, Juvenile justice, Juvenile (under 18), Legal substances, Drug treatment | This is a juvenile drug court designed to reduce alcohol and other drug and delinquency offenses through an accountability framework. The program is rated Promising. Treatment group participants were statistically significantly less likely to recidivate in delinquency/criminal offenses, compared with the comparison group participants. However, there was no statistically significant effect on alcohol and other drug recidivism. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Ecologically Based Family Therapy (EBFT) for Substance-Abusing Runaway Adolescents |
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Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Family reunification, Treatment, Legal substances, Drugs, Juvenile (under 18), Drug treatment | This is a home-based, family preservation model for families in crisis because a youth has run away from home. The model targets 12- to 17-year-olds who are staying in a runaway shelter and dealing with substance abuse issues. The program is rated Promising. Treatment group adolescents reported a statistically significant reduction in the percentage of days they used alcohol or drugs, compared with control group adolescents who received services as usual, at the 15-month follow up. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PADOC) Therapeutic Community |
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Mental health, Corrections, Inmate programs, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Drugs | A prison-based drug treatment program based on the principles of therapeutic communities with the overall goal of reducing the risk of drug relapse and recidivism once they return to the community. The program is rated Ineffective. The program did not significantly impact participants’ rates of rearrests or drug relapse, and only had a small effect on reincarceration rates. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: KEEP SAFE |
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Girls, Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Foster care/child welfare system, Juvenile delinquency, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Crime prevention, Legal substances, Drugs | This was a multicomponent intervention to prevent delinquency and substance misuse for girls in foster care transitioning from elementary school to middle school. The program is rated Promising. Treatment group girls reported statistically significantly reduced tobacco use, marijuana use, and delinquent behavior, compared with control group girls. However, there was no statistically significant impact on alcohol use or association with delinquent peers. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Rochester Resilience Project (RRP) |
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Mental health, Substance abuse, School safety, Youth development, Positive youth development, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Juvenile delinquency, Drugs | This is a school-based intervention to improve the social-emotional and behavioral skills of young children at risk for mental health disorders and substance abuse. This program is rated Promising. The program had a statistically significant, positive effect on children’s task orientation, behavior control, assertiveness, and peer social skills. The program was also associated with a statistically significant decline in the average number of suspensions and office disciplinary referrals. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: High Point Drug Market Intervention |
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Drug possession, Databases, Evidence, Surveillance, Warrants, Community policing, Patrol, Problem-oriented policing, Procedural justice, Vehicles, Policing strategies, Drug markets, Drug trafficking, Crime prevention, Arrests | A problem-oriented policing program that aims to eliminate overt drug markets and the problems associated with them through a deterrence-based, pulling-levers framework. The program is rated Effective. The Intervention had a statistically significant impact on reducing violent incidents in the target areas. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Kansas Senate Bill 123 (Alternative Sentencing Policy for Non-Violent Drug Possession Offenders) |
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Drug testing, Probation, Mandatory sentencing, Drug possession, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Substance abuse | The Kansas State Senate Bill established a program that provided mandatory community-based drug treatment for nonviolent persons convicted of a preliminary offense for drug possession. The program is rated Ineffective. There were no statistically significant differences at the 18-month follow-up for reconviction or revocation between defendants who received mandatory drug treatment and the unmatched comparison group of defendants who were sentenced to standard community corrections. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Too Good for Drugs - Elementary School |
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Schools, Alcohol, Prescription drugs, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Youth development, Positive youth development, Drug abuse prevention and education, Drugs, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18) | This is a school-based drug prevention program designed to reduce students’ intention to use alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drugs and promote prosocial attitudes, skills, and behaviors. The program is rated Ineffective. There were mixed findings in students’ self-reported emotional competency skills, social and resistance skills, and perceptions of the harmful effects of drugs. There were also no statistically significant impacts on students’ attitudes toward drugs. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Project BUILD |
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Youth gangs, Violent offenders, Young juvenile offenders, Alternative schools, School climate, Access to education, Inmate programs, Recidivism, Corrections, Crime prevention, Juvenile detention, Drugs, Substance abuse, Intimate partner violence | This program comprises a violence prevention curriculum, which is designed to assist youth in detention to overcome obstacles such as gangs, violence, crime, and substance abuse. The program is rated Effective. Treatment group youth who participated in the program had lower rates of recidivism and took a longer amount of time to recidivate, compared with control group youth, at the 1-year follow up. These differences were statistically significant. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Reconnecting Youth |
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Schools, Mental health, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Truancy, Suicide, Youth development, Juvenile delinquency, Juvenile (under 18), Crime prevention, Child health and welfare, Alcohol, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a school-based prevention program designed for high-risk students. The program is rated Ineffective. There were no statistically significant differences between experimental group youth and control group youth in engagement in delinquency, alcohol use, smoking, GPA, anger, and school connectedness. There were also statistically significant negative program effects for experimental group youth in conventional peer bonding and peer high-risk behavior. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Maine Juvenile Drug Treatment Courts |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Drug courts, Juvenile courts, Heroin, Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Diversion, Treatment, Problem-solving courts, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Opioids | These court supervised, post-plea (but pre-final disposition) drug diversion programs provide comprehensive community-based treatment services to juveniles convicted of an offense and their families. The program is rated Promising. The program had a statistically significant impact on recidivism. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Residential Student Assistance Program (RSAP) |
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Marijuana, Alcohol, Mental health, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Foster care/child welfare system, Treatment, Juvenile detention, Child health and welfare, Juvenile justice, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a substance abuse intervention program for high-risk adolescents (ages 12–18) living in residential facilities. The program is rated Promising. Treatment group youth showed a statistically significant lower likelihood of reporting alcohol, marijuana, or overall alcohol and other drug (AOD) use in the previous 30 days, compared with comparison group youth. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Michigan Model for Health |
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Schools, Alcohol, Mental health, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a health education curriculum that targets K–12 students and includes age-appropriate lessons that focus on the most serious health challenges facing school-aged children. The program is rated Promising. There was a statistically significant impact on aggressive behavior, social and emotional health, interpersonal and drug refusal skills, and past-30-day alcohol and cigarette use. However, there was no statistically significant effect on prosocial behavior. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: STARS (Start Taking Alcohol Risks Seriously) for Families |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Alcohol, Underage drinking, Deinstitutionalization of status offenders, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Substance abuse, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a health promotion program designed to prevent alcohol use among at-risk middle and junior high school youth. The goal is to postpone alcohol use until adulthood. The program seeks to identify the various risk factors that youth are exposed to and offer them targeted information concerning underage alcohol use. The program is rated Ineffective. There were no statistically significant effects on frequency of alcohol use, quantity of alcohol consumption, or heavy alcohol use. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Community Trials Intervention to Reduce High-Risk Drinking (RHRD) |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Patrol, Problem-oriented policing, Environmental design, Traffic laws, Traffic law enforcement, Law enforcement, Assault, Violent crime, Crime prevention, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a community-based program to reduce underage drinking and alcohol-related offenses. The program is rated Promising. Intervention sites reported statistically significant reductions in DUI and nighttime crashes, average drinking quantity and variance, police-reported assaults, and EMS calls involving assault and motor vehicle crashes, compared with control sites. There was no difference in ED assaults, police reports of public drunkenness, or EMS calls involving alcohol or other drugs. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Changing Course |
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Jails, Correctional facilities, Corrections, Crime prevention, Recidivism, Drugs, Substance abuse, Drug treatment | This is an interactive journal designed to help incarcerated persons who have been screened or identified as having a potential substance use disorder to help inmates make the connection between their substance use and criminal activity. The program is rated Promising. The recidivism rate of inmates who participated in the program’s interactive journal intervention was statistically significantly lower compared with the control group. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Teams-Games-Tournaments (TGT) Alcohol Prevention |
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Schools, Alcohol, Underage drinking, Recreation, Deinstitutionalization of status offenders, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Substance abuse, Legal substances, Drugs | This is an alcohol prevention program for adolescents (typically high school students) that combines peer support with group reward structures. The program is rated Effective. Treatment group participants demonstrated statistically significant improvements in drinking behaviors, impulsive behaviors, attitudes toward drinking and driving, and alcohol knowledge, compared with control group participants. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Caring School Community |
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Schools, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, School safety, Children exposed to violence, School climate, Larceny/theft, Property crime, Crime prevention, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Juvenile delinquency, Victimization, Victims of crime, Alcohol, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a school-based program designed to improve students’ school attitudes and reduce delinquency. The program is rated Promising. The program showed a statistically significant positive effect on participants’ attainment of higher rates of supportive behavior and spontaneous prosocial behavior, compared with students who did not participate. There were no statistically significant effects on negative behavior, harmoniousness, substance/alcohol use, property damage, theft, or victimization. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: SMART Leaders |
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Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Afterschool, Drug abuse prevention and education, Drugs, Legal substances | This is a curriculum-based program for adolescents that aims to change attitudes toward and reduce substance use. The program is rated Promising. Participants demonstrated a statistically significant reduction in alcohol, marijuana, cigarette, and overall drug use; an increase in negative attitudes toward alcohol and marijuana; and an increase in knowledge of drug use and health consequences. However, there was no statistically significant effect on chewing tobacco behaviors. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Alcohol Misuse Prevention Study (AMPS) |
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Schools, Alcohol, Underage drinking, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Legal substances, Substance abuse, Drugs | This is an alcohol misuse prevention curriculum for 10- to 18-year-olds that emphasized resistance training, knowledge of the immediate effects of alcohol use, identification of the risks of alcohol misuse, and recognition of social pressures that lead to alcohol misuse. The program is rated Ineffective. There were no statistically significant effects found on alcohol use, alcohol misuse, serious offenses, or refusal skills. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Positive Youth Development Program (Connecticut) |
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Schools, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, School safety, Positive youth development, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Drugs | This is a school-based program designed to teach students to cope with daily challenges. The program is rated Promising. Students who participated in this program showed a statistically significant improvement in number of coping skills, and in impulse control, peer popularity, and conflict resolution, compared with students who did not participate. However, there were no statistically significant differences in substance or alcohol use or in assertiveness with adults. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Positive Family Support (PFS) |
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Schools, Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Case Management, Youth development, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a family-centered intervention, which addresses family dynamics to prevent substance use and problem behaviors in adolescents. The program is rated Effective. Students in the treatment group were found to report less substance use, including alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana; and demonstrate less antisocial behavior, compared with students in the control group. These differences were all statistically significant. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: I Can Problem Solve (ICPS) |
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School safety, Youth development, Schools, Juvenile (under 18), Drugs | This is a universal school-based prevention program that trains children by offering them a variety of solutions to problems. The program is rated Promising. Treatment group students demonstrated statistically significant improvements on measures of problem solving, understanding consequences, and self-regulation, compared with the improvements made by control group students. However, there was no statistically significant effect on social competence. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Little Village Gang Violence Reduction Project (Comprehensive Gang Model) |
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Gang Crime, Youth gangs, Probation, Community policing, Problem-oriented policing, Young juvenile offenders, Property crime, Crime prevention, Drugs, Violent crime | This is a comprehensive gang violence reduction program designed for the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago. The program is rated Promising. Treatment group youth who participated in the program had statistically significant reductions in total violent crime, serious violent crime, and drug crime arrests, compared with control group youth. However, there was no statistically significant difference in property crime arrests or total arrests. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Staying Connected with Your Teen® |
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Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Youth development, Treatment, Juvenile delinquency, Juvenile (under 18), Crime prevention, Child health and welfare, Drugs, Drug treatment | This program seeks to reduce substance abuse and problem behavior in adolescents. The program is rated Promising. The intervention group had a statistically significant decrease in favorable attitudes toward substance use at the 24-month follow up and in drug use frequency at the 72-month follow up, compared with the comparison group. However, there were no statistically significant differences at the 24-month follow up in violent and delinquent behavior and perceived harm of drug use. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Job Corps |
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Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Dropout/expulsion, Jobs and workforce development, Employment initiatives, Child health and welfare, Juvenile delinquency prevention, Alcohol, Legal substances, Drugs | This is an educational and job training program for economically disadvantaged youth. The program is rated Promising. Youth in Job Corps demonstrated a lower rate of future arrest, conviction, and incarceration, as well as a higher rate of employment, higher earnings, and longer time spent employed, compared with control group youth. These findings were statistically significant. However, there were no statistically significant differences in alcohol or illegal drug use. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Alcohol, Underage drinking, Legal substances, Substance abuse, Drugs, Juvenile (under 18) | This is a community program designed to reduce youth’s access to alcohol by changing community and law enforcement policies, attitudes, and practices. The program is rated Ineffective. There were no statistically significant differences between treatment sites and control sites in youth’s drinking prevalence, number of past-month drinking occasions, number of drinks consumed, attempts to purchase alcohol, or in alcohol merchants’ behavior. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Bicultural Competence Skills Approach |
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Tribal youth, Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Legal substances, Drugs, Juvenile (under 18) | This program is designed to prevent substance use in American Indian adolescents by teaching them bicultural social skills. The program is rated Promising. Youth who participated in the program demonstrated lower rates in use of smokeless tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, and inhalants. Program youth also showed better knowledge of substances and alternatives to substance use, self-control, and assertiveness, compared with control group youth. These differences were statistically significant. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Active Parenting of Teens: Families in Action |
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Schools, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Youth development, Afterschool, Child health and welfare, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a family-based alcohol prevention program for families with middle school-aged children. The program is rated Promising. Students in the program reported fewer family fights; higher family cohesion, and school attachment; and more negative views on underage alcohol consumption, compared with control group students. Parents in the program reported greater opposition to underage alcohol consumption, compared with control group parents. These differences were statistically significant. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Operation New Hope |
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Parole, Reentry, Violent offenders, Treatment, Community corrections, Corrections, Juvenile detention, Child health and welfare, Drugs, Drug treatment | This is a curriculum-based aftercare program designed to assist chronic, high-risk juveniles in their reintegration to the community after they are released from secure confinement. The program is rated Promising. Participants in the treatment group had a statistically significant lower number of rearrests and revocations and lower likelihood of substance use and associations with negative peers, compared with participants in the control group. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Athletes Targeting Healthy Exercise & Nutrition Alternatives (ATHENA) |
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Girls, Schools, Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Juvenile (under 18), Legal substances, Drugs | This is a team-centered, health promotion program for female high school athletes. The program is rated Promising. Athletes who participated in the program had a statistically significant higher likelihood of reporting improved nutritional behaviors and decrease in lifetime alcohol and marijuana use, compared with control group athletes. However, findings regarding the use of diet pills were mixed, and there was no statistically significant impact on the use of athletic-enhancing substances. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Adult Treatment Drug Courts (Multi-site) |
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Drug courts, Diversion, Mental health | This is a program that focuses on drug-involved individuals and aims to provide specialized substance abuse treatment services. The program is rated Promising. Participants in the treatment group were statistically significantly less likely to report drug use and criminal activity than participants in the comparison group. However, there was no statistically significant effect on incarceration, socioeconomic status, mental health, family support, or homelessness. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Media Detective |
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Schools, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Youth development, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a media literacy and substance use prevention program intended for third- through fifth-grade students. The program is rated Promising. Intervention group students demonstrated less intention to use alcohol and tobacco in the future, better deconstruction skills, higher understanding of persuasive intent, and higher self-efficacy, compared with control group students. These differences were statistically significant. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Media Ready |
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Schools, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Youth development, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a media literacy and substance use prevention program for sixth- through eighth-grade students. The program is rated Promising. Intervention group students reported less intention to use tobacco in the future, compared with control group students, at the 2-week follow up (a statistically significant difference). However, there were no statistically significant differences between the groups in intention to use alcohol in the future. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Midwestern Prevention Project (MPP) |
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Schools, Marijuana, Alcohol, Juvenile health, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Youth development, Drug abuse prevention and education, Drugs, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Legal substances | This is a comprehensive program intended to promote an antidrug message throughout communities and prevent substance use among middle school students. The program is rated Effective. One study found that treatment group students had statistically significant lower past-month and past-week rates of cigarette use, compared with control group students. However, a second study found no statistically significant differences in smoking, alcohol, or marijuana use between groups. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Taking Charge of Your Life |
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Schools, Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Youth development, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a school-based, universal substance abuse prevention program for middle school students. The program is rated Ineffective. Intervention students self-reported greater use of alcohol and cigarettes and more binge drinking, compared with control group students, at the 5-year follow up. These differences were statistically significant. There were no statistically significant differences between groups in marijuana use. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Brief Strategic Family Therapy |
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Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Treatment, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Legal substances, Drugs | This is a family-based intervention designed to prevent and treat youth behavior problems. The program is rated Promising. Intervention families showed a statistically significant greater likelihood of being engaged and retained in treatment, and intervention youth showed statistically significant greater improvement in conduct disorder and socialized aggression. There were no statistically significant differences in adolescent alcohol use or improved family functioning. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Too Good for Violence |
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Schools, Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, School safety, Youth development, School climate, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a school-based violence prevention and character education program designed to improve student behavior and minimize aggression. The program is rated Promising. The program had statistically significant positive effects on risk and protective factors related to student violence for students in grade 3. There were also statistically significant positive effects on factors related to alcohol, tobacco, drug use, and violence for students in grades 9 through 12. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Coping Power Program |
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Schools, Marijuana, Alcohol, School safety, Juvenile delinquency, Crime prevention, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Substance abuse, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a cognitive-based intervention for aggressive children and for their parents to increase the children’s competence, study skills, social skills, and self-control during the transition to middle school. The program is rated Promising. There were mixed results on self-reported delinquency, but treatment group children showed a statistically significant reduction in substance use and improvement in aggressive behavior, compared with control group children. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Project Venture |
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Tribal youth, Schools, Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Youth development, Recreation, Afterschool, Legal substances, Drugs, Juvenile (under 18) | This is an outdoor experiential prevention program for at-risk American Indian youth, which concentrates on American Indian cultural values to promote prosocial development and avoidance of alcohol and other drugs. The program is rated Promising. Treatment group youth reported statistically significant lower growth in overall substance use (cigarettes, marijuana, alcohol, and other illicit substances), compared with control group youth, at the 18-month follow up. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Project ALERT |
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Schools, Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Drugs, Substance abuse | This is a school-based program for seventh and eighth graders, which was designed to prevent substance use initiation and reduce future substance use. The program is rated Ineffective. There were no statistically significant differences in alcohol use, marijuana use, or cigarette use between students who participated in the program and control group students. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Mandatory-Random Student Drug Testing |
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Schools, Cocaine, Heroin, Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Crime prevention, Opioids | This program is designed to deter students from substance use and to identify and refer those with substance use problems to counseling or treatment services. Students and their parents sign consent forms, agreeing to the students’ random drug testing as a condition of participation in athletics and other school-sponsored extracurricular activities. The program is rated Ineffective. There were no statistically significant effects on overall substance use or intentions to use substances. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Baltimore City (Md.) Family Recovery Program |
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Drug courts, Family courts, Children exposed to violence, Drug-Related Victimization, Case Management, Family reunification, Foster care/child welfare system, Problem-solving courts, Sanctions, Intimate partner violence | This is a family drug court program designed to serve families involved with child welfare as a result of parental substance use. The program is rated Promising. Treatment group parents had a statistically significant higher percentage of experiencing family reunification, compared with comparison group parents. Children of treatment group parents also had a statistically significant fewer number of days in non-kinship or long-term foster care compared with children of comparison group parents. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Women's Health CoOp (Pretoria, South Africa) |
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Victimization, Rape and sexual assault, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a woman-focused, HIV intervention designed to reduce sex-risk behavior, substance use, and victimization among at-risk and underserved women, including female sex workers. The program is rated Promising. Compared with the comparison group, non-sex workers in the intervention reported less sexual abuse, alcohol use, and verified drug abuse, and sex workers in the intervention reported less physical abuse and verified drug abuse. These differences were statistically significant. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: DARE to be You |
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Substance abuse, Drugs | This is a multilevel prevention program for high-risk families with children ages 2–5 years, which is designed to lower children’s risk of future substance abuse and other high-risk activities by improving parenting skills. The program is rated Promising. Intervention group parents reported a statistically significant improvement in child development, a reduction in child oppositional behaviors, and an improvement in parental self-efficacy, compared with control group parents. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Transitional Case Management |
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Parole, Corrections, Community corrections, Reentry, Alcohol, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a strengths-based, case management intervention that provided expanded case management services to incarcerated persons during their transition from incarceration to the community. The program is rated Ineffective. There were no statistically significant differences between the transitional case management treatment group and the standard referral control group in nights spent in residential substance abuse treatment or in past 30-day drug or alcohol use, at the 9-month follow up. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Families Facing the Future |
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Cocaine, Heroin, Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Case Management, Crime prevention, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Drugs, Illegal substances, Legal substances, Drugs, Opioids | This is an intensive family program combining relapse prevention and parenting skills training. This program is rated Ineffective. Treatment group parents demonstrated statistically significantly less heroin use, fewer domestic conflicts, and higher refusal skills than control parents did. There were no statistically significant differences in other drug use by parents, child drug and alcohol use, child delinquency, child-reported negative peers, or child school attachment. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Drug Market Analysis Program (Jersey City, NJ) |
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Drug trafficking, Community policing, Problem-oriented policing, Situational crime prevention, Drug markets | This is a hot spots policing program that targeted identified drug activity locations to reduce public disorder by engaging local residents and business owners and applying pressure through crackdowns. The program is rated Promising. The treatment group hot spots showed a statistically significant decrease in disorder-related offenses, compared with the control group hot spots. However, there were no statistically significant differences in violent or property offenses. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Breath Alcohol Ignition Interlock Device Program (Illinois) |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Vehicles, Crime prevention, Traffic laws, Traffic law enforcement, Law enforcement, Drugs, Legal substances, Substance abuse | The program requires installation of ignition interlock devices in motor vehicles to test the breath–alcohol level of drivers convicted of alcohol-related traffic violations. The device prohibits alcohol-impaired drivers from starting and operating the vehicle. The program is rated Promising. Treatment group individuals who had the device installed had statistically significantly lower rates of rearrest for alcohol-related violations, compared with the control group, at the 3-year follow-up. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Strengthening Families Program: For Parents and Youth 10-14 |
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Alcohol, Substance abuse, Youth development, Child health and welfare, Drugs, Marijuana, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a family-based intervention that seeks to reduce substance use and other problem behaviors in youth ages 10–14. The program is rated Promising. Treatment group youth showed a statistically significant greater number of intervention-targeted behaviors and alcohol refusal skills and a lower initiation of alcohol use, compared with the control group. Treatment group parents, compared with the control group parents, showed a statistically significant greater number of parenting competencies. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Care, Assess, Respond, Empower (CARE) |
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Mental health, Dropout/expulsion, Suicide, Youth development, Child health and welfare, Schools, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a brief school-based, suicide-prevention program that seeks to reduce suicide risks and co-occurring health-related behaviors (such as depression and drug use). The program is rated No Effects. Intervention youth reported statistically significant lower levels of depression, compared with usual-care comparison group youth, but there were no statistically significant effects on suicide-risk behaviors, drug-involvement behaviors, drug-use control problems, and adverse drug consequences. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Raising Healthy Children |
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Schools, Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Youth development, School climate, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Legal substances, Drugs | This is a school-based intervention designed to promote positive youth development and reduce substance use. This program is rated Promising. Intervention students showed statistically significant improvements in teacher ratings of antisocial behavior and social competency and reported a statistically significant decline in frequency of alcohol and marijuana use, compared with control students. However, there were no differences in prevalence of alcohol, marijuana, or cigarette use. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Healthy Families America |
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Children exposed to violence, Case Management, Home visiting, Positive youth development, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Crime prevention, Drugs, Child protection, Intimate partner violence | This is a home-visitation program for expectant and new parents, which was designed to prevent child abuse or neglect. The program is rated No Effects. Treatment group mothers showed statistically significant improvements on some outcomes, such as parental stress and discipline strategies, compared with control group mothers. However, there were no statistically significant differences between the groups in neglect, foster care placement, or substantiated child protective services reports. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: New South Wales (Australia) Prison Methadone Maintenance Program |
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Heroin, Corrections, Inmate programs, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Cocaine, Substance abuse, Illegal substances, Drugs, Opioids | This is a prison-based, methadone maintenance program in Australia, which is designed to reduce recidivism, prevent the spread of blood-borne viral infections (HIV and hepatitis) in prison, and encourage continuation of treatment in the community following release. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant effects on rates of mortality, recidivism, or hepatitis C infections. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Project Northland |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Schools, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Legal substances, Drugs | This was a school and community intervention that targeted children at an early age to prevent and reduce underage alcohol use. This program is rated Promising. The treatment group showed statistically significant reductions in alcohol use, binge drinking, and successful alcohol purchases by young-appearing buyers, compared with the comparison group. However, there was no statistically significant difference between groups in attitudes toward substance use. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Linking the Interests of Families and Teachers (LIFT) |
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Schools, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, School safety, Youth development, School climate, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a program designed to prevent the development of aggressive and antisocial behaviors in children in elementary school. The program is rated Effective. Youth who participated in the intervention demonstrated statistically significant reductions in physical aggression; in initiation of alcohol and tobacco; and in use over time of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs; compared with control youth. However, there were no significant differences between groups in initiation of illicit drugs. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: LifeSkills® Training |
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Schools, Marijuana, Alcohol, Juvenile health, Mental health, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Youth development, Drug abuse prevention and education, Drugs, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Legal substances | This is a classroom-based, drug abuse–prevention program for upper elementary and junior high school students. This program is rated Effective. Students who participated in the program reported a statistically significant decrease in prevalence of cigarette, alcohol, and polydrug use; and slower growth in initiation of substance use, compared with control students. However, there were no significant differences between groups on self-reported marijuana use. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Motivational Interviewing (MI) for Substance Abuse Issues of Juveniles in a State Facility |
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Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Juvenile detention, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a person-centered counseling method designed to foster motivation for change in youth who abuse alcohol and marijuana. The program is rated No Effects. Participants showed a statistically significant reduction in likelihood to exhibit negative treatment engagement and drive under the influence of alcohol, compared with control youth; however, there were no significant differences in other outcomes such as positive treatment engagement or driving under the influence of marijuana. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention of College Students (BASICS) |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Schools, Alcohol, Underage drinking, Campus, Substance abuse, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a preventive intervention designed to help college students make better decisions about alcohol use. The program is rated Effective. The intervention group showed statistically significant reductions in negative consequences of drinking (for example, accidents, violence or academic problems) and peak blood alcohol content. However, findings were mixed with regard to quantities consumed, and there was no statistically significant difference between groups in frequency of drinking. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Multisystemic Therapy - Substance Abuse |
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Cocaine, Marijuana, Alcohol, Mental health, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Violent offenders, Youth development, Home visiting, Treatment, Young juvenile offenders, Child health and welfare, Juvenile delinquency, Juvenile detention, Courts, Drug courts, Problem-solving courts, Illegal substances, Drugs, Legal substances, Drugs | This version of multisystemic therapy is for adolescents with substance abuse and dependency issues. This program is rated Effective. Treatment youth showed statistically significant reductions in marijuana use and in aggressive behavior and convictions for aggressive behavior, compared with control group youth. However, no significant differences between groups were found for symptoms of mental health, criminal behavior, or alcohol or cocaine use. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Good Behavior Game |
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Mental health, Substance abuse, School safety, Youth development, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Alcohol, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a classroom management strategy designed to reduce aggressive and disruptive classroom behavior and create a classroom environment that is conducive to learning for students, ages 6 to 10. The program is rated Promising. At the 14-year follow up, the treatment group had statistically significant reductions in levels of alcohol-related disorders and antisocial personality disorder compared with participants in the control group. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Project Towards No Drug Abuse (Project TND) |
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Schools, Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Treatment, Drug abuse prevention and education, Drugs, Child health and welfare, Cocaine, Illegal substances, Legal substances, Drug treatment | This is a school-based program designed to prevent substance use. The program is rated Ineffective. There were no statistically significant effects on marijuana use, cocaine use, or on prevalence of getting drunk, and mixed effects on tobacco use, alcohol use, and hard drug use. There was a statistically significant improvement for the treatment group in overall substance use and an index of all hard drug use. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Family Matters |
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Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Legal substances, Drugs, Juvenile (under 18) | This is a family-based program designed to prevent and reduce tobacco and alcohol use among children between the ages of 12 and 14. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences found between treatment group youth and control group youth in tobacco and alcohol use at the 12-month follow up. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Functional Family Therapy (FFT) |
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Probation, Mental health, Violent offenders, Treatment, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Juvenile delinquency, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Juvenile detention, Drugs, Substance abuse | This is a family-based prevention and intervention program for dysfunctional youth, ages 11 to 18, who are justice-involved or at risk for delinquency, violence, substance use, or other behavioral problems. The program is rated Effective. Program participants showed a statistically significant reduction in general recidivism and risky behavior, compared with control group participants. However, there were no differences between groups on felony recidivism or caregiver strengths and needs. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Modified Therapeutic Community for Individuals With Mental Illness and Chemical Abuse (MICA) Disorders Who Commit Offenses |
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Mental health, Corrections, Reentry, Correctional facilities, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Drugs | This program is an adaptation of the therapeutic community models used with individuals who have co-occurring drug abuse problems and mental health disorders. It offers a more flexible, more personalized, and less intense approach to achieve greater reductions in substance use and recidivism. This program is rated Promising. Participants in the treatment group showed statistically significant reductions in illegal drug use, compared with the control group. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Prison-Initiated Methadone Maintenance Treatment |
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Heroin, Drug testing, Drugs, Crime prevention, Inmate programs, Illegal substances, Cocaine, Opioids | This is a methadone maintenance treatment designed for currently incarcerated individuals with a heroin addiction. The program is rated Promising. Treatment group participants spent a greater number of days in community-based drug treatment following release and improved opioid drug test results, compared with control group participants. These differences were statistically significant. However, there were mixed results regarding cocaine use, criminal activity, and frequency of heroin use. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Behavioral Couples Therapy for Substance Abuse |
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Alcohol, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a therapy approach for drug- and alcohol-abusing couples and their families. The program is rated Promising. After 1 year, patients reported statistically significant reductions in drinking consequences; partner violence; and alcohol, drug, and family–social addiction severity index scores, compared with the comparison group. There were no statistically significant effects on other addiction severity indicators, days abstinent from substances, or relationship satisfaction. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Guiding Good Choices |
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Marijuana, Alcohol, Mental health, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Youth development, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a family-competency training program to promote healthy parent-child interactions and address children’s risk for early substance use. The program is rated Promising. Parent participants had a statistically significant improvement in intervention-targeted parenting behaviors, at 1-year posttest. Child participants had a statistically significant lower likelihood of alcohol-related problems and cigarette use, after 10 years, but there was no effect on being drunk and using illicit drugs. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Baltimore City (Md.) Drug Treatment Court |
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Drug courts, Problem-solving courts, Mental health, Substance abuse, Alcohol, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a drug treatment court that seeks to reduce rearrests and reconvictions for drug-involved individuals with substantial criminal and drug addiction histories. The program is rated Effective. Compared with the control group, program participants had a statistically significant fewer number of arrests at the 24-month and 15-year follow up, but not at the 36-month follow up. Participants also had a statistically significant fewer number of total convicted charges at the 15-year follow up. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Naltrexone for Persons on Federal Probation |
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Probation, Heroin, Corrections, Community corrections, Illegal substances, Substance abuse, Drugs, Cocaine, Opioids | This is a program that uses medication in the treatment of opioid addiction. The medication works by antagonizing opioid receptors and blocking the effects of opiates, usually heroin, which are consumed by addicts. The program is rated Promising. There were statistically significant reductions in opioid use and reincarceration among the treatment group, compared with the control group. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Bronx (NY) Treatment Court |
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Drug courts, Corrections, Probation, Community corrections, Recidivism, Problem-solving courts, Crime prevention | This program is an alternative to probation and confinement for first-time, nonviolent individuals convicted of drug offenses. The program is rated Promising. Treatment court participants had statistically significant lower conviction rates for any new offenses and drug offenses 1 year after program completion, compared with the comparison group. Program participants also had statistically significant lower conviction rates 3 years following the initial arrest. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Kansas City (MO) Police Department Street Narcotics Unit |
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Weapons violations, Drug possession, Drug trafficking, Cocaine, Evidence, Surveillance, Warrants, Problem-oriented policing, Law enforcement, Law enforcement operations, Arrests, Policing strategies, Crime prevention, Public order offenses | This was a special police unit that conducted raids of crack houses to reduce crack-related crime and improve public order in Kansas City, Mo. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences between the experimental and control groups in calls for service (including calls for violent, property, and disorder offenses) and reported offenses (including violent and property offenses). Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Queens (NY) Treatment Court |
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Drug courts, Problem-solving courts, Recidivism, Crime prevention | This is a drug court program for first-time, nonviolent persons convicted of felony drug offenses who are arrested in Queens County, N.Y. The court provides drug or alcohol treatment services to persons with persistent drug offenses who have a history of substance abuse. This program is rated Effective. There were statistically significant reductions in postarrest and post-program rearrest rates for program participants, compared with the comparison group. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Interim Methadone Maintenance (Baltimore, Md.) |
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Heroin, Illegal substances, Drugs, Cocaine, Opioids | This is a daily treatment program for opiate-addicted adults on waiting lists for comprehensive treatment who receive doses of methadone and emergency counseling. The program is rated Promising. Participants reported a statistically significant decrease in heroin use and had lower crime rates, compared with the waitlist control group. However, there was no statistically significant effect on cocaine use. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Amity In-Prison Therapeutic Community |
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Reentry, Corrections, Inmate programs, Drugs, Drug treatment | This program provides intensive treatment in a dedicated housing unit to male incarcerated persons with substance abuse problems during the last 9 to 12 months of their prison terms. The program is rated Promising. Participants had statistically significant lower reincarceration rates at the 24-month and 5-year follow-up periods, compared with the control group. There were no significant differences between the groups in reincarceration rates at the 36-month follow up or in drug use at the 5-year follow up. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Minnesota Prison-based Chemical Dependency Treatment |
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Inmate programs, Crime prevention, Recidivism, Drugs, Drug treatment, Drug treatment programs, Inmate drug treatment, Inmate drug treatment assistance programs | This is a prison-based chemical dependency treatment for incarcerated persons who abuse chemicals or are chemically dependent. The main goal is to reduce their recidivism rates once they reenter the community. The program is rated Promising. Those who received treatment showed statistically significant lower rates of rearrest, reconviction, and reincarceration, compared with the control group at the follow-up period. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Suffolk County (N.Y.) Drug Treatment Court |
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Drug courts, Drug possession, Cocaine, Heroin, Marijuana, Drug abuse prevention and education, Drugs, Problem-solving courts, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Opioids | This program is an alternative to incarceration for drug-abusing defendants, which provides substance abuse treatment and education, case management, and intensive supervision. The program is rated Effective. Treatment group participants had a statistically significant lower likelihood of recidivating and experienced a greater length of time between initial arrest and first rearrest, compared with the comparison group. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Post-Rape Video Intervention |
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Marijuana, Alcohol, Violent crime, Rape and sexual assault, Victims of crime, Drugs | This intervention is designed to reduce distress associated with forensic rape examinations and reduce the victims’ risk of developing psychopathology and substance use after an assault. The program is rated No Effects. At the 6-month follow up, there were no statistically significant differences between the treatment and nontreatment groups in alcohol, marijuana, or hard drug use, or in symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, or depression. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Community and Law Enforcement Resources Together (ComALERT) |
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Parole, Mental health, Reentry, Corrections, Community corrections, Corrections, Employment initiatives, Legal substances, Drugs, Policing strategies, Crime prevention | This is a reentry program in Brooklyn, N.Y., that provides substance abuse treatment, employment, and housing services for parolees. The program is rated Promising. Participants demonstrated a statistically significant lower likelihood of being rearrested or reconvicted, compared with the matched control group. However, there were no significant differences in employment and earnings, cohabitating with a partner and regular contact with their children, or drug and alcohol use. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care-Adolescents |
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Mental health, Substance abuse, Violent offenders, Trauma, Case Management, Family reunification, Foster care/child welfare system, Youth development, Treatment, Young juvenile offenders, Juvenile delinquents, Crime prevention, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Juvenile detention, Juvenile delinquency, Drugs, Drug treatment | This is a behavioral treatment alternative to residential placement for adolescents with antisocial behavior, emotional disturbance, and delinquency. The program is rated Effective. Treatment group boys showed a statistically significant drop in criminal referral rates, criminal activities, and days spent in lock up, compared with comparison group boys. Treatment group girls showed a statistically significant reduction in delinquency, compared with comparison group girls. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Oregon Drug Courts |
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Drug courts, Problem-solving courts, Recidivism, Crime prevention | These statewide drug court programs were designed to provide comprehensive management for persons convicted of drug offenses—through increased treatment, monitoring, and interactions with the court judge—to achieve reductions in reoffending and better drug treatment outcomes for substance users. This program is rated Promising. Individuals who participated in drug court programs had statistically significant reductions in recidivism rates and number of rearrests, compared with the control group. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA) |
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Marijuana, Alcohol, Juvenile health, Mental health, Substance abuse, Reentry, Juvenile delinquency, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Crime prevention, Juvenile detention, Drugs, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a behavioral intervention for youth, which is designed to reduce drug and alcohol use and promote an abstinent lifestyle. The program is rated Promising. Participants showed a statistically significant reduction in alcohol use, other drug use, and depressive symptoms, and an increase in linkage to continuing care services, adherence to the continuing care model, and social stability. However, there was no statistically significant effect on high-risk behaviors or delinquency. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Forever Free |
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Parole, Corrections, Prisons, Recidivism, Reentry, Crime prevention, Employment initiatives, Inmate assistance programs, Drugs | This prison-based substance abuse treatment program for women near the end of their incarceration period is designed to reduce substance use and recidivism following release. The program is rated Promising. The intervention group reported statistically significantly fewer arrests and reconvictions and less drug use at follow up compared with the comparison group. However, there was no statistically significant effect on reincarceration and employment. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Fourth R Curriculum |
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Dating violence, School safety, Rape and sexual assault, Crime prevention, Juvenile delinquency, Juvenile (under 18), Crime prevention, Victimization, Intimate partner violence, Violent crime, Victims of crime, Drugs | This interactive classroom curriculum is designed to reduce youth dating violence by addressing bullying, unsafe sexual behavior, and substance use. The program is rated No Effects. The program had small, statistically significant effects on decreasing dating violence and sexual harassment/assault victimization. However, there were no significant effects on sexual harassment/assault perpetration, peer violence perpetration or victimization, sexual activity, substance use, or prosocial attitudes. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: San Diego (Calif.) Drug Abatement Response Team (DART) |
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Asset forfeiture, Fines, Problem-oriented policing, Crime prevention, Drug abuse prevention and education, Drugs, Law enforcement operations, Law enforcement, Policing strategies | This is a program designed to reduce drug dealing at residential rental properties by encouraging improved property management practices. The program is rated Effective. The treatment group that implemented the full program experienced a statistically significant reduction in crime, compared with the control group However, there was no statistically significant difference between the treatment and control groups in the eviction of persons convicted of drug offenses. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Athletes Training and Learning to Avoid Steroids (ATLAS) |
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Schools, Alcohol, Prescription drugs, Substance abuse, Drug abuse prevention and education, Drugs, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare | This is a multicomponent school-based drug and alcohol prevention program for male high school athletes. The program is rated Promising. The intervention was associated with statistically significant reductions in participants’ intent to use steroids, and statistically significant increases in their knowledge of the negative side effects of steroids and in their ability to refuse steroids and other drugs. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Maryland Ignition Interlock Program |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Vehicles, Crime prevention, Traffic laws, Traffic law enforcement, Law enforcement, Legal substances, Substance abuse, Drugs | This Maryland program was designed to decrease the number of subsequent alcohol-related traffic violations for drivers with multiple alcohol offenses. The program is rated Effective. Those in the ignition interlock group had statistically significant fewer subsequent alcohol traffic violations compared with the control group. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Brooklyn (NY) Treatment Court |
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Drug courts, Problem-solving courts, Recidivism, Crime prevention | This drug court program offers substance abuse treatment for nonviolent felony and misdemeanor drug offenses. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences between the drug court participants and the comparison group in 2-year post-program recidivism or 4-year post-arrest convictions for a drug offense. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Delaware KEY/Crest Substance Abuse Programs |
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Corrections, Correctional facilities, Prisons, Inmate programs, Reentry, Drugs, Rape and sexual assault | This program uses a drug treatment continuum of prison-based therapeutic community and residential work release for drug-involved convicted persons. The program is rated Promising. Results showed statistically significant increases in remaining drug-free after 3 years and increases in condom use after 6 months; however, there were no statistically significant effects in being injection-free (after 6 months) or arrest-free (after 3 years). Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Multnomah County (Ore.) Sanction Treatment Opportunity Progress (STOP) Drug Diversion Program |
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Drug courts, Corrections, Community corrections, Parole, Problem-solving courts, Drug treatment | This is a drug court program that focuses on providing treatment services for persons facing first-offense drug charges. The program is rated Effective. In addition to showing statistically significant lower rates of subsequent arrests, convictions, felony arrests, drug arrests, and parole and probation violations, program participants had higher scores in positive adjustment, compared with control group participants at the 2-year follow up. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Guam Adult Drug Court |
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Drug courts, Drug possession, Problem-solving courts, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Diversion, Substance abuse | This is a drug court diversion program designed to help participants achieve sobriety and reduce involvement with the criminal justice system, by connecting them with treatment services soon after arrest. The program is rated Promising. The treatment group showed statistically significant reductions in recidivism for general and drug-related crime, compared with the control group at the 3-year follow up. However, there were no differences between groups in rates of positive drug tests. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Weed and Seed (Miami, Fla.) |
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Gang Crime, Assault, Gun violence, Homicide, Drug trafficking, Schools, Community policing, Problem-oriented policing, Situational crime prevention, Treatment, Law enforcement operations, Problem-oriented policing, Arrests, Violent crime, Policing strategies, Drugs, Drug treatment | This is a community-based approach to reducing and preventing crime while revitalizing the community. This program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences in rates of violent crime between the treatment and comparison areas following the crackdown. However, drug offenses increased significantly in the treatment areas, compared with the comparison areas. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: San Juan County (N.M.) DWI First-Offense Program |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Alcohol, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Driving Under the Influence (DUI), Traffic laws, Traffic law enforcement, Law enforcement, Substance abuse, Legal substances, Drugs, Intimate partner violence | This is a program for people arrested for the first time for driving while intoxicated (DWI). The program seeks to reduce DWI rearrest rates. The program is rated Promising. The treatment group showed statistically significant improvement on all three measures of alcohol use (total consumption, drinking days, and average blood–alcohol content), compared with the control group. However, there was no statistically significant difference between groups on rates of DWI rearrests. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: TCU Mapping-Enhanced Counseling for Substance Users |
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Cocaine, Heroin, Drug testing, Drugs, Substance abuse, Illegal substances, Opioids | This program consists of a cognitive technique for incorporating graphic visualization tools into the counseling process for substance users. The program is rated Promising. The mapping-enhanced counseling group showed a statistically significant reduction in positive drug tests for opiates and cocaine at the 6-month posttest, compared with the control group. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) Community-Based Mentoring (CBM) Program |
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Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Trauma, Youth development, Child health and welfare, Juvenile delinquency, Drugs | This program offers one-to-one mentoring in a community setting for at-risk youth between the ages of 6 and 18. This program is rated Effective. It was associated with a statistically significant reduction in initiating drug and alcohol use and antisocial behavior among mentored youth, compared with non-mentored youth. Mentored youth also showed statistically significant improvement in relationships with parents and academic performance (i.e., better grades and fewer absences). Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Jackson County (Ore.) Community Family Court |
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Drug courts, Family courts, Children exposed to violence, Trauma, Case Management, Family reunification, Foster care/child welfare system, Intimate partner violence | This program is for parents whose children are wards of the state. The program is rated Effective. Intervention parents had statistically significant improvements in treatment outcomes and lower rates of rearrest, compared with control parents. Children of intervention parents experienced statistically significant improvements in child welfare outcomes, compared with children of control group participants. There were no significant differences between groups for placement stability. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Ottawa County (Mich.) Sobriety Court Program |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Jails, Correctional facilities, Corrections, Problem-solving courts, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Traffic laws, Law enforcement, Traffic law enforcement, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a court program in western Michigan designed to divert people convicted of driving under the influence (DUI) from jail, eliminate substance use, and reduce recidivism. The program is rated Promising. At the 2-year follow up, program participants were less likely to be rearrested and had longer time to first-rearrest, compared with control group participants. These differences were statistically significant. However, there were no significant differences between groups for alcohol or drug Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) (1983-2009) |
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Schools, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare | This is a school-based drug use prevention program, taught by police officers, which was designed for students in the sixth through 12th grades. The primary goal was to teach peer resistance and refusal skills so that adolescents can say “no” to drugs. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences between treatment and control group participants in drug use, attitudes toward drug use, or self-esteem. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Nashville (Tenn.) Drug Market Intervention |
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Drug possession, Drug trafficking, Surveillance, Community policing, Problem-oriented policing, Drug markets, Crime prevention, Arrests | This is a policing program that used community mobilization, strategic planning, and pulling-levers notifications to reduce drug dealing in a high-crime area in Nashville, Tenn. The program is rated Promising. At the postintervention, there was a statistically significant decline in drug crime incidents in the target area, compared with the adjacent comparison area and the rest of Nashville. But there were no statistically significant effects on violent or property offenses or calls for service. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Hawaii Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE) |
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Drug testing, Probation, Reentry, Corrections, Community corrections | This is a community supervision strategy for substance-abusing probationers, particularly those who have long histories of drug use and involvement with the criminal justice system and are considered at high risk of failing probation or returning to prison. The program is rated Promising. Participants were less likely to miss appointments with probation officers, use drugs, and be arrested, compared with the control group. These differences were statistically significant. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: SafERteens |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Alcohol, Juvenile health, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Violent offenders, Trauma, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a program comprised of a 35-minute therapy session for adolescents who received care in emergency rooms, designed to reduce subsequent violent behavior and alcohol use. The program is rated No Effects. The intervention groups showed statistically significant improvements on attitudinal measures of violence and alcohol use, compared with the control group; however, there were no statistically significant differences between the groups in behavior changes related to alcohol or violence. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Engaging Moms Program for Mothers in Family Drug Court (Miami, Fla.) |
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Drug courts, Family courts, Family reunification, Problem-solving courts, Child abuse, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Crime prevention, Alcohol, Legal substances | This is a gender-specific, family-based intervention designed to help drug-using mothers who participate in family drug court to maintain their parental rights. The program is rated No Effects. The program had no statistically significant effects on child welfare outcomes, self-reported drug use, physical child abuse potential, overall psychological stress, self-reported alcohol use, family and social functioning, psychiatric problems, and urinalysis results. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Drug Treatment Alternative to Prison (DTAP) |
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Drug testing, Corrections, Prisons, Inmate programs, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Courts, Diversion, Prosecution | This program is the first prosecution-led, residential drug treatment diversion program designed to divert people convicted of nonviolent felony drug offenses to community-based residential treatment. This program is rated Promising. Controlling for time spent in the community following release from prison, the intervention showed statistically significant positive effects on recidivism, time to first rearrest, and rearrest for program participants, compared with the control group. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Probation Case Management for Women Charged With Drug-Involved Offenses (San Francisco, Calif.) |
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Probation, Corrections, Community corrections, Drugs | This intervention for drug-involved females who have been convicted of an offense incorporated elements of substance abuse treatment, intensive supervision probation, and case management. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences between the probation case management group and the standard probation group on measures of incarceration rates, substance abuse, psychiatric symptoms, or service use at the 12-month follow up. Date Posted: |
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