TOPIC: Model Programs Information

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Information Sheet

• Annotated "lists" of Empirically Supported/Evidence Based Interventions for School-aged Children and Adolescents

Introductory Packet

• Violence Prevention and Safe Schools, specifically:

Prevention Strategies to Ensure Safe Schools
     A. Guidelines for Effective Intervention
     B. Programs
• Cultural Concerns in Addressing Barriers to Learning, specifically:
  Some Model Programs Related to Cultural Concerns in Addressing Barriers to Learning

Newsletter

• Newsletter: Addressing Barriers to Learning & Promoting Healthy Development: A Usable Research-Base (fall, '00)
• Newsletter: CSSS - Hawaii's Comprehensive Student Support System... a multifaceted approach that encompasses & enhances MH in schools. (Summer, '01)

Quick Find

• Empirically-Supported Interventions

Technical Assistance Sampler

• Sampling of Outcome Findings from Interventions Relevant to Addressing Barriers to Learning, specifically:
  IV. Examples of Multifaceted Approaches
• School-Based Health Centers, specifically:
  A Few Model Programs of School-Based Health Centers

• A positive Youth Development Model for Students Considered At-Risk
• Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice
• Examples of Exemplary/Promising Programs
• Exemplary Substance Abuse Prevention Programs (2001)
• Monitoring School Quality: An Indicators Report (PDF)
• National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP)
• OJJDP Model Programs Guide
• Positive Youth Development in the United States: Research Findings on Evaluations of Positive Youth Development Programs (2002)
• Prevention Crime: What Works, What Doesn't , What's Promising. A Report to the United States Congress (1997, PDF)
• Preventing Drug Use Among Children and Adolescent: A Research Based Guide (1997)
• Psychology in the Schools
• Safe, Disciplined,and Drug-Free Schools Expert Panel Exemplary Programs (2001)
• The Prevention of Mental Disorders in School-Aged Children: Current State of the Field (2001)
• Tried and True: Tested Ideas for Teaching and Learning from the Regional Educational Laboratories
• What Works Clearinghouse
• Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance - United States

• Blueprints for Violence Prevention
• Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence
• The Child Development Project
• Education Development Center, Inc.
• National Mental Health and Education Center
• Safe & Drug-Free Schools (SDFS) Program

• A design for a new learning community. By Urban Learning Center (1995). Los Angeles Educational Partnership: Los Angeles.
• Advances in School-Based Mental Health Interventions: Best Practices and Program Models. By Kristin E. Robinson (Editor) (2004). Civic Research Institute, Incorporated
• Schoolwide Prevention Models: Lessons Learned in Elementary Schools. By Charles R. Greenwood, Thomas R. Kratochwill, & Melissa Clements. (2008). Guilford Press.
• Transforming Learning through 21st Century Skills: Model for Engaging You and Your Students. By Taylor, L.M. & Fratto, J.M. (2011). Allyn & Bacon.

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