Communities That Care

Communities That Care
Author: J. David Hawkins
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Total Pages: 282
Release: 1992-08-19
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Shows how to create a comprehensive, community-wide prevention program to effectively confront the serious drug and alcohol problems threatening our youth. Shows how to employ community mobilization, educational strategies, volunteerism, and mass media to achieve significant reductions in adolescent drug use.

Community Readiness for Drug Abuse Prevention

Community Readiness for Drug Abuse Prevention
Author: Karol L. Kumpfer
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 178
Release: 1998-11
Genre:
ISBN: 0788173839

Introduces the concept of community readiness for substance abuse prevention programming. Defines community readiness, provides a rationale for assessing a community's readiness prior to the planning or implementation of prevention activities, identifies seven factors for assessing community readiness, and offers strategies for increasing readiness factors found to be deficient. Case study. Intended for use with the handbook "Drug Abuse Prevention: What Works" and "Drug Abuse Prevention and Community Readiness: Training Facilitator's Manual."

Drug Abuse Prevention for At-Risk Groups

Drug Abuse Prevention for At-Risk Groups
Author: Karol L. Kumpfer
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 141
Release: 1999-02
Genre:
ISBN: 0788143743

Provides practitioners with the information they need to prepare their communities for prevention programming & to select & implement drug abuse prevention strategies that effectively address the needs of their local communities. The target audience for this document includes prevention program administrators, prevention specialists, community volunteers, community activists, parents, teachers, counselors, etc. Contents: intro. to selective prevention; intro. to & key elements of the strengthening families program; & implementation of the strengthening families program. Appendixes on skills training programs for parents, children & families.

Drug Abuse Prevention for the General Population

Drug Abuse Prevention for the General Population
Author: Severin L. Sorensen
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 130
Release: 1999-02
Genre:
ISBN: 0788176730

Provides practitioners with the info. to prepare their communities for prevention programming and to select and implement drug abuse prevention strategies that effectively address the needs of their local communities. The audience includes prevention program administrators, prevention specialists, community volunteers and activists, parents, teachers, counselors, and others who have an interest in drug abuse and its prevention. Contents: intro. to universal prevention; intro. to project STAR (a communitywide universal prevention program); key elements of project STAR; project STAR training require.; and implementation of project STAR.

Substance Abuse Prevention

Substance Abuse Prevention
Author: Kar Snehendu
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2020-06-10
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1351841505

In thirteen chapters, twenty-four authors share their analyses, concerns, and conclusions in several domains including the: meaning and dynamics of multiculturalism affecting prevention intervention, relative risks and knowledge gaps across ethnic groups, social trends affecting health risks and substance abuse, lessons learned from substance abuse research and prevention, role of the media, promises and limits of the new public health paradigm for assessment, policy development, assurance of preventive services, and social action and empowerment for prevention in partnership with the public.

Drug Abuse Prevention

Drug Abuse Prevention
Author: Dr. Richard W. Wilson
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2011-08-24
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0763771589

"Drug Abuse Prevention: A School and Community Partnership, Third Edition", takes an evidence-based approach to teach students the important concepts and skills needed to design effective drug prevention programs. Covering more than just the facts, this text provides a background of drug use and abuse and presents the principles and skills of prevention, with particular focus on adolescents and school settings. It reinforces the importance of schools forming community partnerships with key institutions and the application of policy tools to enhance the impact of education alone. -- From publisher's description.