OSAP special issue: Programs for change: Office for Substance Abuse Prevention demonstration models
Raymond P. Lorion and James G. Ross, Editors
This special journal issue describes the outcomes and analysis from evaluation findings of eight OSAP-funded demonstration projects designed to reach high-risk youths. The report discusses the challenges and difficulties that these programs faced in implementing ATOD abuse prevention efforts. One program exemplifies the difficulties a parent-involvement model can face. Despite the offer of incentives such as child care and transportation, few parents attended the preventive intervention sessions. Another program tried to increase after-school resources for "latchkey" children, but encountered opposition from parents and teachers. Other programs worked with alternative methods of prevention activities and multiagency collaborations. The book also looks at and discusses why some programs failed to reduce risk factors. It identifies lessons learned through community prevention efforts. These include the importance of flexibility in organizing, the complexity of evaluation, the inevitability of resistance, and the reality of time constraints.
Journal of Community Psychology, 1992, 20(OSAP Special Issue), pp. 1-128 Distributed by National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information P.O. Box 2345 Rockville, MD 20847-2345 (800) 729-6686 or (301) 468-2600 TDD: (800) 487-4889 Fax: (301) 468-6433 (1992, Inventory No. BK200, 128 pp.; free)
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