Rainbow Days

Rainbow Days is a multi-cultural preventive intervention designed for children and youth ages 4-17 who are at high risk for substance use and other socio-behavioral problems. The program brings participants together in small group settings, where they develop skills related to handling difficult family situations, resisting negative peer pressure, setting and achieving goals, making healthy choices, and refusing alcohol, tobacco, and drugs…

Media Ready

Media Ready is an interactive media literacy program designed to help sixth through eighth grade students develop critical thinking skills and prevent substance use. The program uses 10 45-minute sessions that give students opportunities to explore advertising techniques, identify target audiences, and critically assess marketing tactics. At the end of the curriculum, students create counter-ads to…

Media Detective

Media Detective is an activity-driven media literacy program designed to prevent alcohol and tobacco use among third through fifth graders. The main program consists of ten 45-minute interactive sessions, where students analyze advertisements and media messages through a structured curriculum grounded in social cognition, substance use prevention, and media literacy research. Other related products include Media Detective Family Night…

Too Good for Drugs

Too Good for Drugs is a K-12 school-based prevention program designed to enhance resilience and reduce substance use risks by building social and emotional competencies. It teaches skills like decision-making, positive relationship building, self-efficacy, communication, and resisting peer pressure…

Strong African American Families Program

The Strong African American Families (SAAF) program is a culturally tailored, strengths-based intervention for African American youth aged 10-14 and their families. It focuses on enhancing family interactions, parenting practices, and youth resilience to risky behaviors…

Communities That Care

Communities That Care (CTC) is a community-based prevention program aimed at reducing youth problem behaviors such as substance use, delinquency, and violence. CTC promotes healthy youth development by strengthening community coalitions and utilizing evidence-based prevention strategies…

Strengthening Families Program: For Parents and Youth 10-14

The Strengthening Families Program: For Parents and Youth 10-14 (SFP 10-14) is a family skills training intervention aimed at enhancing school success and reducing substance use and aggression among youth aged 10-14. Based on bio-psychosocial and family process models, the program consists…

Friday Night Live

Friday Night Live (FNL) is a youth-led program that promotes skill development and healthy decision-making. Built on a positive youth development framework, it fosters leadership, advocacy, peer relationships, and skill-building through community engagement. FNL partners with…

Familias Unidas

Familias Unidas is a family-based intervention for Hispanic immigrant parents that promotes healthy youth development and prevents substance use and sexual risk behaviors. It builds parent-support networks and enhances culturally relevant parenting skills through weekly two-hour…