Winners Sankofa
The Avalon Carver Community Center in Los Angeles developed Winners Sankofa, an African-centered model for alcohol, tobacco, and other drug youth prevention practices that aim to counter the deleterious effects of poverty, school failure, substance abuse, incarceration, and environmental challenges facing African-American youth. The Winners Sankofa model is delivered in modular form and consists of written activities…
Media World
Media World is a media literacy program designed for high school students to analyze media messages about substance use. The program contains 12 classroom-based core lessons that are 50-60 minutes long and have optional supplements. Students explore advertising tactics, media regulations…
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…
Tobacco Prevention Toolkit
The Tobacco Prevention Toolkit (TPT), developed by Stanford Medicine’s Research and Education to Empower Adolescents and Young Adults to Choose Health (REACH) Lab, is a theory-based, evidence-informed curriculum designed to prevent tobacco and nicotine use among middle and high school students…
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…
Project ALERT
Project Adolescent Learning Experiences in Resistance Training (ALERT) is a middle school drug prevention program addressing experimental and continued use of substances like alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana. The curriculum includes 11 seventh-grade lessons and 3 booster sessions in…
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…