Research & Policy
Photo Home
Who We Are
Research & Policy

> Family
> Partners
> Community
> Web Links
> General

Policy
Family
Partners
Community
News Room



  Free To Grow
  Mailman School
  of Public Health
  Columbia University
  722 West 168th Street,
  8th Floor
  New York, NY 10032











green corner
NOTE: as of April 17, 2007, the Free to Grow program has closed.
Research & Policy

Creating drug-free schools and communities: A comprehensive approach
C. Lynn Fox and Shirley E. Forbing

This book is designed to guide professionals and community members through school-based ATOD prevention and intervention activities for adolescents who are, or are the children of, substance abusers. The authors demonstrate how schools, families, and communities can work together to establish a significant framework for prevention by organizing activities into five stages: assessing needs, planning, implementation, evaluation, and dissemination.

Program designers need to recognize problems within the family unit: the complex dynamics of families of substance abusers, the coping strategies and survival roles of family members, the weaknesses in family relations, changes in family structure, child-rearing practices, economic realities, and lack of family cohesiveness. Road blocks to implementation include denial, lack of collaboration skills, and limited knowledge. Key elements to successful ATOD program outcomes include assessing needs through research, raising funds, enlisting the support of community resources, working directly with children, and involving parents. Schools and the community can help foster appropriate parenting skills through educational activities, such as parent support groups. The authors describe models of prevention and youth peer programs from across the U.S. that have been assessed as effective. An appendix lists resources and contact organizations.

HarperCollins Publishers
College Division
1900 East Lake Avenue
Glenview, IL 60256
(800) 782-2665
Fax: (800) 328-3443
(1992, 344 pp.; $37.50 + $3.50 p/h)





 

copyright 2008 Free To Grow
Disclaimer
Free To Grow is a national program supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation with direction and technical assistance provided by the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University.