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The Broad Effectiveness of Seventy-Four Field Instances of Abstinence-Based Programming
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Birch, Paul James; White, Joseph M.; Fellows, Kaylene – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2017
Evaluations of a large federally funded sexual risk avoidance education (SRAE) efforts in the USA have not been widely reported in the wake of funding cuts. The purpose of this study is to report results from a broad set of programmes to demonstrate the breadth of field effectiveness of these programmes. Twenty-seven separate community-based SRAE…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Sex Education, Prevention, Program Evaluation
Assessing the Impact of a Wildlife Education Program on Japanese Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions
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Sakurai, Ryo; Jacobson, Susan K.; Matsuda, Naoko; Maruyama, Tetsuya – Environmental Education Research, 2015
Human-wildlife conflicts are common in agricultural communities and mountainous villages in Japan. Tochigi prefecture has one of the highest amounts of agricultural damage caused by wildlife in the country. To reduce conflicts, the Nature Preservation Division of Tochigi Prefecture launched a wildlife damage prevention program. We evaluated the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Attitude Measures, Intention, Behavior
Promoting Evidence-Based Practices: The Adoption of a Prevention Support System in Community Settings
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Hunter, Sarah B.; Paddock, Susan M.; Ebener, Patricia; Burkhart, A. K.; Chinman, Matthew – Journal of Community Psychology, 2009
Prevention support systems (PSSs) are designed to help communities implement evidence-based practices (EBPs). Little is known about the factors that influence their adoption. In this article, we examined adoption of a PSS for substance abuse prevention called Getting To Outcomes (GTO)[R] among staff in two community coalitions with varying levels…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Prevention, Innovation, Prediction
Who Completes Child Maltreatment Prevention Programs? Data Trends #153
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Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health, 2008
"Data Trends" reports present summaries of research on mental health services for children and adolescents and their families. The article summarized in this "Data Trends" describes child maltreatment prevention programs designed to increase protective factors and decrease risk factors in families who may otherwise succumb to…
Descriptors: Health Services, Intervention, Child Neglect, Child Abuse
Effects of Program Implementation on Adolescent Drug Use Behavior: The Midwestern Prevention Project (MPP).
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Pentz, Mary Ann; And Others – Evaluation Review, 1990
The relationship between level of program implementation and change in adolescent drug use behavior in the Midwestern Prevention Project was assessed. Results for 5,065 sixth and seventh graders at follow up are discussed in terms of research assumptions about the quality of program implementation and possible school-level predictors of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Programs, Drug Abuse, Elementary Education
Who Gets Care? Mental Health Service Use Following a School-Based Suicide Prevention Program
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Kataoka, Sheryl; Stein, Bradley D.; Nadeem, Erum; Wong, Marleen – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2007
Objective: To examine symptomatology and mental health service use following students' contact with a large urban school district's suicide prevention program. Method: In 2001 school district staff conducted telephone interviews with 95 randomly selected parents approximately 5 months following their child's contact with the district's suicide…
Descriptors: Health Services, Urban Schools, Crisis Intervention, Prevention