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Institute of Medicine—Reducing Risks for Mental Disorders - Frontiers for Preventive Intervention Research (1994), integrates research on the prevention of mental illness with recommendations for improving prevention research. It is available through the Institute of Medicine National Academy Press:
www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/rrmd

National Institute of Drug Abuse—Preventing Drug Use Among Children and Adolescents: A Research-based Guide offers updated principles, questions and answers, program information, and references and resources regarding the consequences, prevention, and treatment of drug abuse. It is available at:
www.drugabuse.gov/pdf/prevention/
RedBook.pdf

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) National Registry of Effective Programs and Practices (NREPP)—SAMHSA’s NREPP recognizes evidence-based programs in three categories: promising, effective, and model. More information can be found at: http://modelprograms.samhsa.gov.

U.S. Department of Education, Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools (2002)—Safe and Drug-Free Schools Exemplary and Promising Safe, Disciplined, and Drug-Free Schools Programs, 2001 identifies nine programs as exemplary and 33 as promising. The guide can be downloaded at: www.ed.gov/admins/lead/safety/
exemplary01/exemplary01.pdf

U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice (1997)—Denise C. Gottfredson’s chapter 5, School Based Crime Prevention, in Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn’t, What’s Promising, provides a comprehensive evaluation of the effectiveness of school-based crime prevention strategies. www.ncjrs.org/works/ chapter5.htm

For more information about these ten lists of exemplary and promising programs, see the Southeast Comprehensive Assistance Center publication, 26 Scientifically-based Programs (Revised 11/19/2003).
http://www.sedl.org/secac/sdfsc.html
#ScientificallyBasedPrograms


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