The following are links to lists of research-based prevention programs that have been identified by federal agency initiatives:

• The Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program has identified 9 exemplary and 33 promising programs.

• The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention provides funding to the Blueprints for Violence Prevention initiative of the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, which has identified 11 model programs and 20 promising programs.

• The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention has identified 36 model programs, 20 effective programs, and 32 promising programs.

• The Division of Adolescent and School Health has identified 2 tobacco prevention Programs That Work.

Several reports have also identified research-based programs that produce positive changes among youth, including the following:

• Choosing the Tools: A Review of Selected K-12 Health Education Curricula (Education Development Center)

• Making the Grade: A Guide to School Drug Prevention Programs (Drug Strategies)

• Positive Youth Development in the United States: Research Findings of Positive Youth Development Programs (Social Development Research Group, University of Washington)

• Preventing Mental Disorders in School-Age Children: A Review of the Effectiveness of Prevention Programs (Prevention Research Center for the Promotion of Human Development, Pennsylvania State University)

• Resilience: Status of the Research and Research-Based Programs (Center for Mental Health Services)

• Safe Schools, Safe Students: A Guide to Violence Prevention Strategies (Drug Strategies)

• School Health: Findings from Evaluated Programs (American School Health Association)

As you plan your prevention initiative, it is important to be familiar with research-based strategies and programs in both prevention and education reform. The following are links to a few helpful sites on research-based models of comprehensive or whole-school reform:

• Annotated Bibliography of Resources from the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory
  http://www.sedl.org/pubs/catalog/items/pic02.html

  The purpose of the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory is to improve teaching and learning practice. This database of reference materials includes information on educational reform, coherent teaching practice, and improved student learning.

• The Catalog of School Reform Models
  http://www.nwrel.org/scpd/catalog/index.shtml

  This site provides descriptions of 32 "entire school" reform models, plus additional entries on reading/language arts, mathematics, and science reform. Selection criteria include evidence of effectiveness in improving student academic achievement, extent of replication, availability of implementation assistance, and comprehensiveness.

• An Educators' Guide to Schoolwide Reform
  http://www.aasa.org/issues_and_insights/ district_organization/Reform/index.htm

  This guide reviews the research on 24 "whole school," "comprehensive," or "schoolwide" approaches. It rates the different approaches against a common set of standards, compares them in terms of scientifically reliable evidence, and provides detailed information about each. A one-page table summarizes the approaches' relative strengths, and brief profiles describe their key features and provide contact information.

• Comprehensive School Reform
  http://www.ncrel.org/csri/

  The North Central Regional Educational Laboratory provides numerous links to websites and products relevant to comprehensive school reform. Two of these are Comprehensive School Reform: Making Good Choices and Making Good Choices: Districts Take the Lead. The first document presents a three-step strategy for deciding whether comprehensive school reform is a good choice for your school, and, if so, whether one of the existing programs is right for your school. The second presents five components that describe district reform efforts that support, shape, and enrich school improvement, as well as several assessment tools to help identify where your district stands relative to the five components.

Although this event focused on the implementation phase of prevention programming, it is important to be aware of how all of the different stages fit together. Your MSC training manual is an important tool for developing your understanding of the whole process, as are the following sites:

Building a Successful Prevention Program
http://captus.samhsa.gov/western/resources/bp/index.cfm

This site, developed and maintained by the Western Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies, describes a seven-step model for prevention: Community Readiness and Mobilization, Needs Assessment, Prioritizing, Resource Assessment, Targeting Efforts, Best Practices, and Evaluation.

Community ToolBox
http://ctb.ku.edu/

The Community ToolBox website, created by the University of Kansas Work Group on Health Promotion and Community Development and AHEC/Community Partners in Amherst, Massachusetts, contains numerous "how to" tools designed to help practitioners with the different tasks necessary for community health and development. There are sections on leadership, needs assessment, community assessment, advocacy, grant writing, and evaluation, including an overview of the strategic planning process.

Decision Support System
http://www.preventiondss.org

This site presents a seven-step model for prevention based on CSAP's logic model for strategic planning, implementation, and evaluation of prevention programs. The logic model is presented as a circular (recursive) process beginning at Assess Needs and progressing through Develop Capacity, Select Programs, Implement Programs, Evaluate Programs, Report Programs, and Get Technical Assistance and Training.

Drug Information And Decision Support (DIADS) Assessment
http://education.indiana.edu/cas/diads/diads.html

Developed by the Center for Adolescent Studies at Indiana University, this brief assessment tool is designed to help prevention planners develop and implement comprehensive programs that will work in their schools. By assessing what a school is currently doing to prevent drug abuse and the levels of support for those activities, DIADS can determine a given program's chance of success.