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Jonathan M. Tirrell; Mutale Sampa; Kit Wootten; Sion Kim Harris; Robert E. McGrath; Mataanana Mulavu; Ntazana Sindano; Lameck Kasanga; Oliver Mweemba; Dana McDaniel Seale; J. Paul Seale; Wilbroad Mutale – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2025
The Global Resilience Oral Workshops (GROW) Free and Strong programs take a strengths-based, positive youth development (PYD) approach to promoting thriving. Through both prevention (GROW Strong) and intervention (GROW Free) exercises, these programs aim to build character and emotional resilience while also lowering unhealthy alcohol use. To…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Resilience (Psychology), Youth Programs, Prevention
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Hutchison, Morica; Russell, Beth S. – Journal of Drug Education, 2021
A systematic review explored the creation and maintenance of community coalitions as effective for alcohol and other drug (AOD) prevention in adolescence. Community coalitions influence the implementation of effective and sustainable community-based prevention via infrastructure supporting development, delivery, and assessment of human service…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Prevention, Alcohol Abuse, Drug Abuse
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Snyder-Young, Dani; Houston, Ashley; Bell, Ana Bess Moyer; Short, Andy; Lincoln, Alisa – Research in Drama Education, 2022
Improbable Players (IP) has been creating applied theatre for substance use disorder prevention since 1984, training more than 200 sober actor/teaching artists to perform plays and facilitate workshops addressing addiction, alcoholism, and the opioid crisis. The company operates, for its actors, as a long-term arts- integrated peer recovery…
Descriptors: Drama, Prevention, Addictive Behavior, Drug Abuse
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Documet, Patricia Isabel; Troyer, Mark M.; Macia, Laura – Health Education & Behavior, 2019
Objective: To determine the association of social support with alcohol abuse, depression, and health care access among Latino immigrant men in an emerging Latino community (an area with a small yet growing Latino population). Methods: Cross-sectional baseline data of 140 men prior to a participatory male-to-male community health worker…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Correlation, Alcohol Abuse, Depression (Psychology)
Russell, Todd T.; Craddock, Christopher S.; Kodatt, Stephanie A.; Ramirez, Dora Maria – Online Submission, 2017
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) present serious problems for the twenty-first century. These disorders describe a variety of neurological and behavioral deficits that result from exposure of an unborn child to alcohol during pregnancy. While thousands of children are diagnosed with FASD annually, FASD is completely preventable if women…
Descriptors: Prevention, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Cultural Relevance, Hispanic Americans