List of All Practices

Click on the name of a best or promising practice for more information about that program/strategy. To conduct a search of these practices, visit the Search for Practices Using Specific Criteria webpage.


Best Practices

      Across Ages
      Adolescent Alcohol Prevention Trial (Donaldson et al)
      Adolescent Transitions Program (Dishion et al)
      Al's Pals: Kids Making Healthy Choices
      All Stars (Hansen)
      Any Baby Can Child and Family Resource Center (formerly "CEDEN Family Resource Center")
      Athletes Training and Learning to Avoid Steroids: The ATLAS Program (Goldberg et al)
      Bi-Cultural Competence Skills Approach (a.k.a. "Statewide Indian Drug Prevention Program")
      Blood Alcohol Concentration Laws
      Border Binge-Drinking Reduction Program ("Program to Reduce Underage and Binge Drinking")
      Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention of College Students
      Brief Strategic Family Therapy
      Bry's Behavioral Monitoring and Reinforcement Program
      CASASTART
      Challenging College Alcohol Abuse
      Changing Hours and Days of Sale
      Changing the Conditions of Availability
      Child Development Project
      Children in the Middle
      CICC's Effective Black Parenting Program (Alvy)
      Class Action
      Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol
      Communities That Care (Hawkins and Catalano Community Mobilization)
      Community Trials Intervention to Reduce High-Risk Drinking
      Coping Power
      Coping with Work and Family Stress
      Counter-Advertising
      Creating Lasting Connections
      DARE to Be You
      Early Risers ("Skills for Success")
      Economic Interventions (Increasing Taxes)
      Families and Schools Together (FAST)
      Families in Action
      Family Advocacy Network and SMART Moves
      Family Effectiveness Training
      Family Matters
      Family Therapy (generic strategy)
      Focus on Families
      Friendly PEERsuasion
      Functional Family Therapy Program
      Good Behavior Game
      Guiding Good Choices
      Healthy Families America
      Helping the Noncompliant Child: Parenting and Family Skills Program
      Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY)
      Home Visiting
      Home-Based Behavioral Systems Family Therapy
      Houston Parent-Child Development Center
      I Can Problem Solve (ICPS)
      Incredible Years ( Parent and Children Videotape Series)
      Keep A Clear Mind
      keepin' it REAL
      Leadership and Resiliency
      Life Skills Training Program
      Lions-Quest Skills for Adolescence
      Meld...Parenting That Works
      Mentoring: Big Brothers/Big Sisters
      Multi-Component School-Linked Community Approaches
      Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care Program (formerly "Treatment Foster Care Program")
      Multisystemic Therapy
      Native American Prevention Project Against AIDS and Substance Abuse
      NICASA Parent Project
      Nurse-Family Partnership (formerly "Prenatal/Early Infancy Project")
      Nurturing Program (also known as Family Development Resources)
      Parent and Family Skills Training (generic strategy)
      Parenting Wisely (Gordon) [formerly Parenting (Adolescents) Wisely]
      Parenting Skills Program (Guerney)
      Parents as Teachers
      Parents Who Care (see Staying Connected with Your Teen)
      PATHS (Promoting Alternative THinking Strategies)
      Peacemakers
      Perry Preschool Project - High/Scope Approach
      Positive Action
      Preparing for the Drug Free Years
      Project ACHIEVE
      Project ALERT
      Project BASIS
      Project CARE
      Project Northland (Perry)
      Project PATHE (Organizational Change in School) (Gottfredson)
      Project STAR /Midwestern Prevention Project (Pentz et al)
      Project SUCCESS
      Project Towards No Drug Abuse
      Project Towards No Tobacco Use
      Project Venture
      Protecting You/Protecting Me
      Quantum Opportunities Program
      Raising a Thinking Child: I Can Problem Solve (ICPS) Program for Families
      Raising the Minimum Legal Drinking Age
      Reconnecting Youth Program
      Residential Student Assistance Program
      Responsible Beverage Service
      Restriction of Advertising and Promotion of Tobacco
      Retailer-Directed Interventions
      Schools and Families Education (SAFE) Children
      Second Step: A Violence Prevention Curriculum
      Sembrando Salud
      Skills, Opportunities, And Recognition (SOAR) (Formerly: Seattle Social Development Project)
      SMART Leaders
      Social Competence Promotion Program for Young Adolescents (formerly "Weissberg's...")
      Start Taking Alcohol Risks Seriously (STARS) for Families
      Staying Connected with Your Teen (Formerly: Parents Who Care)
      Stop Teenage Addiction to Tobacco
      Strengthening Families Program
      Strengthening Families Program: For Parents and Youth 10-14 (Iowa Strengthening Families Program)
      Strengthening Hawai' i Families
      Syracuse Family Development Research Program (FDRP)
      Tobacco-Free Environment Policies
      Too Good for Drugs
      Tutoring
      Zero-Tolerance Laws


Promising Practices

      Baby S.A.F.E. (Substance Abuse Free Environment) Hawaii
      Birth to Three
      Club Hero
      Dando Fuerza a La Familia
      Diineegwahshii
      Early Childhood Substance Abuse Prevention Program
      Faith Based Prevention Model (formerly "Jackson County Church Coalition")
      Great Body Shop
      Growing Healthy
      HeadOn: Substance Abuse Prevention for Grades 6-8™
      Let Each One Teach One
      Make Parenting a Pleasure (a curriculum of Birth to Three)
      New Connections
      Okiyapi: Devils Lake Sioux Community Partnership Project
      PAL Peer Assistance and Leadership
      Parenting Partnership
      PARITY: Promoting Academic Retention for Indian Tribal Youth
      PeaceBuilders
      Preventive Alcohol Education Program
      Project Break Away
      Say It Straight
      Solutions for Families (formerly "Families in Focus")
      Storytelling for Empowerment
      Strengthening Multi-Ethnic Families and Communities
      Teams-Games-Tournaments Alcohol Prevention
      Teenage Health Teaching Modules
      Tribes Learning Communities (Tribes TLC)
      Urban Women Against Substance Abuse (UWASA)
      Woodrock Youth Development Program