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Melissa Washington-Nortey; Terri N. Sullivan; Kevin Sutherland; Rihana Ahmed; Jelani Crosby; Stephani Hitti – School Mental Health, 2025
Despite efforts to reduce and prevent incidents, bullying behaviors remain prevalent in schools, leading to poor outcomes for all involved. While the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program is one of the most extensively implemented school environment interventions in the USA, it has yet to yield consistently positive results across contexts,…
Descriptors: Program Improvement, Bullying, Prevention, Program Implementation
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Pamela R. Buckley; Katie Massey Combs; Karen M. Drewelow; Brittany L. Hubler; Marion Amanda Lain – Evaluation Review, 2025
As evidence-based interventions are scaled, fidelity of implementation, and thus effectiveness, often wanes. Validated fidelity measures can improve researchers' ability to attribute outcomes to the intervention and help practitioners feel more confident in implementing the intervention as intended. We aim to provide a model for the validation of…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers, Evidence Based Practice, Program Development
Marie-Andrée Somers; Michelle Dixon; Claudia Solís-Román; Megan Schwartz; Olivia Lalanne; Bryce Marshall; Lauren Lee; Osvaldo Avila – MDRC, 2025
LifeSkills Training is the only program to prevent substance use disorder among adolescents that has evidence of effects on substance use outcomes from multiple randomized controlled trials. Evaluations have shown that the version for middle school students reduces their use of substances in high school, but these studies were conducted in the…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Middle School Students, Substance Abuse, Drug Use
Jennifer Ashley Fletcher – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In the United States truancy prevention is lacking two key elements to success; research that explains the causes of truancy and empirical evidence for best practices of truancy prevention. Truancy has been a problem in academics since the early 1900's, when truancy became illegal. Since then, truancy rates have continued to see a steady increase,…
Descriptors: Truancy, Prevention, Best Practices, Community Programs
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Dawnyéa D. Jackson; Dana E. Wagner; Penny Norman; Gray Abarca; Kim Zambole – Health Education & Behavior, 2025
Similar to national trends, in Illinois, fatal opioid overdoses have risen. Black men (35+) outrank all other racial subgroups for the highest rate of fatal opioid overdoses in the state. To address this, Prevention First and the Illinois Department of Human Services developed a public health education campaign to support increasing enrollment in…
Descriptors: Adults, Males, Blacks, Drug Addiction
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Andia B. Eisman; Jeffrey Martin; Rebecca E. Hasson; Amy M. Kilbourne – Journal of School Health, 2024
Background: Comprehensive health education in schools can effectively prevent drug use and related outcomes, but successful implementation remains challenging. Contextual determinants, including intervention-setting compatibility, focus on the intervention, available resources, and leadership support, influence implementation success. This study…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, Comprehensive School Health Education, Drug Use, Drug Education
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Benjamin Kutsyuruba; Lorraine Godden; Keith Walker – International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2024
Attrition and turnover among early career teachers (ECTs) have garnered the attention of policymakers and educational leaders across Canada. However, due to provincial/territorial responsibility for education in Canada, teacher induction efforts to keep novice teachers in the profession depend on school system structures and policies specific to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teacher Induction, School Policy, Faculty Mobility
Kate Shaw – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research seeks to evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of a behavioral threat assessment and management (BTAM) program within the Mansfield Independent School District, catering to students from kindergarten through 12th grade. The primary focus of the BTAM initiative is to detect early signs of potential violence in students'…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Prevention
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Andria B. Eisman; Christine Koffkey; Suzanne Brown; Christina Holmes; Barry Schmidt; Eric Swihart; Tracy Robinson; Bo Kim – Prevention Science, 2025
Drug use trends change rapidly among youth, leaving educators and researchers struggling to respond promptly. Widely adopted universal evidence-based interventions (EBIs), such as the Michigan Model for Health™ (MMH), and their delivery systems offer an opportunity to reach large youth populations and reduce the onset and escalation of emerging…
Descriptors: Administrators, Teachers, School Counselors, State Officials
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Diana Guertler; Dominic Bläsing; Anne Moehring; Christian Meyer; Dominique Brandt; Hannah Schmidt; Florian Rehbein; Merten Neumann; Arne Dreißigacker; Anja Bischof; Gallus Bischof; Svenja Sürig; Lisa Hohls; Maximilian Hagspiel; Susanne Wurm; Severin Haug; Hans-Jürgen Rumpf – Prevention Science, 2024
This article examines the implementation, participation rates, and potential determinants of participation in the digital addiction prevention program "ready4life." A two-arm cluster-randomized trial recruited German vocational students via class-based strategies. Intervention group received 16 weeks of in-app coaching; the control group…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Addictive Behavior, Prevention, Foreign Countries
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Courtenay A. Barrett; Dustin J. Sleesman; Tazkira Amin – Prevention Science, 2024
Schools are a critical setting to promote healthy youth development through the provision of evidence-based programs (EBPs), yet preventive EBPs in schools are underutilized. The Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, Sustainment (EPIS) framework highlights numerous factors that may influence program adoption during the Exploration phase and…
Descriptors: Administrators, Administrator Attitudes, Decision Making, Prevention
Lilly Yu; Josh Hendrix; Abigail Rinderle – Administration for Children & Families, 2024
In 2020, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Office on Trafficking in Persons (OTIP) established the Human Trafficking Youth Prevention Education (HTYPE) Demonstration Program. The purpose of the HTYPE Demonstration Program is to fund local educational agencies (LEAs) to partner with a nonprofit or nongovernmental organization (NGO)…
Descriptors: Crime, Slavery, Child Abuse, Program Development
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Claudia Corpus-Espinosa; Isotta Mac Fadden; María del Carmen Torrejón-Guirado; Marta Lima-Serrano – Prevention Science, 2025
Adolescence is a critical period for developing risk behaviors such as substance use, which can impact health in adulthood. Culturally adapted evidence-based programs (EBPs) are promising for prevention. This review explores the processes for culturally adapting EBPs targeting alcohol, tobacco, or cannabis use, and/or anxiety or depression in…
Descriptors: Mental Health Programs, Substance Abuse, Prevention, Programs
Lyka F. Gonzales; Kyla P. Telmo – Online Submission, 2025
The usefulness of health communication in promoting health programs through various communication strategies plays a key role in raising awareness on the prevention of diseases within the community. However, there are currently no existing studies that focus specifically on community diseases such as dengue fever. Therefore, this study aimed to…
Descriptors: Disease Control, Prevention, Community Programs, Health Programs
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Lin Liu; Bruce G. Taylor; Weiwei Liu; Nan D. Stein – Prevention Science, 2024
Using a randomized controlled trial, we investigated changes in both sexual harassment (SH) perpetration and victimization of 2104 middle school students in New York City who received divergent saturation and dosage levels of "Shifting Boundaries," an SH prevention program, which was represented by the length of the program. We assessed…
Descriptors: Sexual Harassment, Victims, Prevention, Comparative Analysis
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