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…
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 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…
Project Towards No Drug Abuse
Project Towards No Drug Abuse (TND) is a high school drug prevention program for youth who are at risk for drug use and violence-related conduct. Project TND focuses on three factors that can predict alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use: motivation, skills, and decision-making. The…
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 Venture
Project Venture is a classroom-based and outdoor experiential learning program that focuses on at-risk Indigenous youth between fifth and eighth grade, aiming to prevent substance use and decrease depression, anxiety, and anger. Participants are engaged to build resilience, which can be…
Lion’s Quest
Lions Quest Skills for Adolescence is a K-12 life skills program fostering social/emotional competence, citizenship, and character development. It uses interactive methods like group work and service learning to strengthen youth’s connections to their families, schools, and communities. In grades…
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…