Chapter 5:
Prevention and Intervention

Promoting Healthy, Nonviolent Children

Methods of Identifying Best Practices

Scientific Standards for Determining Program Effectiveness

• Model
• Promising
• Does Not Work

Stategies and Programs: Model, Promising, and Does Not Work

• Primary Prevention: General Populations of Young People
• Ineffective Primary Prevention Programs
• Secondary Prevention: Children at High Risk of Violence
• Ineffective Secondary Prevention Approaches
• Tertiary Prevention: Violent or Seriously Delinquent Youths
• Ineffective Tertiary Programs and Strategies

Cost-Effectiveness

Conclusions

Going to Scale

References

Appendix 5-A: Consistency of Best Practices Evaluations

Appendix 5-B: Descriptions of Specific Programs That Meet Standards for Model and Promising Categories

Model Programs: Level 1 (Violence Prevention)

• Functional Family Therapy (FFT)
• Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care
• Multisystemic Therapy (MST)
• Prenatal and Infancy Home Visitation by Nurses
• Seattle Social Development Project

Model Programs: Level 2 (Risk Prevention)

• Life Skills Training (LST)
• The Midwestern Prevention Project

Promising Programs: Level 1 (Violence Prevention)

• Intensive Protective Supervision Project
• Montreal Longitudinal Study/Preventive Treatment Program
• Perry Preschool Program
• School Transitional Environmental Program (STEP)
• Striving Together to Achieve Rewarding Tomorrows (CASASTART, formerly Children At Risk [CAR])
• Syracuse Family Development Research Program

Promising Programs: Level 2 (Risk Prevention)

• Bullying Prevention Program
• Families and Schools Together (FAST Track)
• Good Behavior Game
• I Can Problem Solve
• The Incredible Years Series
• Iowa Strengthening Families Program
• Linking the Interests of Families and Teachers (LIFT)
• Parent Child Development Center Programs
• Parent-Child Interaction Training
• Preparing for the Drug-Free Years
• Preventive Intervention
• Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies (PATHS)
• The Quantum Opportunities Program
• Yale Child Welfare Project