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Exhibit I

The Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV)
Model and Promising Programs

Among the Model Programs which meet CSPV’s stringent evaluation criteria are:

Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies (PATHS) - This is a comprehensive curriculum for promoting emotional and social competencies and reducing aggression and behavior problems in elementary school-aged children, while simultaneously enhancing the educational process in the classroom. Designed to be used by educators and counselors in a multi-year universal prevention model, this innovative curriculum focuses on school and classroom settings and includes information and activities for use with parents.

Quantum Opportunities Program - This youth development program is designed to serve disadvantaged adolescents by providing education and development activities as well as financial incentives over a 4-year period, from 9th grade through high school graduation.

Bullying Prevention Program - This is an intervention for the reduction and prevention of bully/victim problems. The school serves as the main arena for this program, with school staff having primary responsibility for introducing and implementing the program.

Multi-Systemic Therapy - An intensive family and community based treatment that addresses the multiple determinants of serious antisocial behavior. This approach views individuals within a complex network of interconnected systems that encompass individual, family, and extra familial factors. Interventions may be necessary in any one or a combination of systems.

Prenatal and Infancy Home Visitation by Nurses - This evidence-based program is guided by a strong theoretical orientation and consists of intensive and comprehensive home visitation by nurses during pregnancy through the first two years after the birth of the child.

Functional Family Therapy - This outcome driven prevention and intervention program targets youth who have demonstrated the entire range of maladaptive, acting out behaviors and related syndromes.

Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC) - This is a cost effective alternative to group or residential treatment, incarceration, and hospitalization for adolescents who have problems with chronic antisocial behavior, emotional disturbance, and delinquency. Community families are recruited, trained, and closely supervised to provide MTFC adolescents with treatment and intensive supervision.

The Midwestern Prevention Project (MPP) - This is a comprehensive, community-based, multi-faceted program for adolescent drug abuse prevention which involves an extended period of programming. Although initiated in a school setting, it goes beyond this setting into the family and community contexts.

Examples of CSVP’s Promising Programs which have demonstrated quantitative effects on one or more outcome, including delinquency/crime, violence, drug use, and pre-delinquent aggression, are:

Fast Track - This comprehensive and long-term prevention program aims to prevent chronic and severe conduct problems for high-risk children, with the goals of increasing communication and bonds between the school, home, and individual. The program spans grades 1-6, with the most intensive period during the first grade and the transition from grade school to middle school.

Perry Preschool Program - This early childhood education program of weekly home visitations by teachers, targets low socioeconomic families with children ages 3-4. It’s goal is to break the connection between poverty and school failure by promoting the intellectual, social, and physical development of young children living in poverty.

Parent Child Development Center Program - This intervention program fosters relationships between parents and children, helping mothers with children ages 2 months to 3 years to become more effective in child-rearing.

Intensive Protective Supervision Project - This program removes juvenile offenders under age 16 from criminal justice institutions and provides them with extensive community supervision with the goals of decreasing future delinquency and increasing socially acceptable behaviors.

Prevention Treatment Programs - This program, which targets 7-9 year old boys, is designed to prevent antisocial behavior and provide training for parents and youth to decrease delinquency, gang involvement, and substance use.

Baltimore Mastery Learning and Good Behavior Game Intervention - This program seeks to improve the psychological well-being and social task performance of children by strengthening reading skills to reduce risks of later depression while decreasing early aggressive and shy behaviors to prevent later criminal behavior.

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