How do you select an evidence-based, research-based program for implementation?

ANSWER

You begin by conducting a search. There are three options.

1. Safe & Drug Free Schools Website at www.unf.edu/dept/fie/sdfs/strategies/left.html will provide you with:

a. Substance Abuse Prevention strategies,

b. Violence/Anti-Social Prevention strategies, and

c. Related Prevention/Education strategies.

At the website you can click on a strategy to get information about that strategy and supporting citations. Also available, you will find a list of prevention programs alphabetically.

2. Research SAMHSA’s National Registry of Evidence-based Programs & Practices at www.nrepp.samhsa.gov:

a. Find an Intervention,

b. Pick a topic, area of interest, age, race & setting, and

c. One intervention found: Family Matters.

3. The Center for the Application of Substance Abuse Technologies (CASAT) at http://casat.unr.edu/bestpractices/search.php will allow you to:

a. Search for Practices using Specific Criteria,

b. Pick risk factors, CSAP Strategy, Ethnicity, Age Level, and

c. See print outs for Middle and High School Aged Youth.