Best Practice is Evidence-Based

Evidence-Based Prevention Programs and Practices

Blueprints for Violence Prevention - University of Colorado

Blueprints for Violence Prevention, is a project of the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of Colorado designed to answer the question "what works?'". The Blueprints mission is to identify truly outstanding violence and drug prevention programs that meet a high scientific standard of effectiveness. In doing so, Blueprints serves as a resource for governments, foundations, businesses, and other organizations trying to make informed judgments about their investments in violence and drug prevention programs.

Colorado Best Practices-Office of Interagency Prevention Systems

The Office of Interagency Prevention Systems website was developed to provide assistance to local communities through information on Best Practices for prevention and intervention strategies, programs, and interventions that serve the needs of children and youth.

National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP)

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Agencies (SAMHSA) offers National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP) to help local organizations make informed decisions about evidence-based interventions. The registry is a searchable database of evidence-based practices in prevention and treatment of mental health and substance use disorders.

OJJDP Model Programs Guide

This guide is a user-friendly, online resource designed to assist practitioners,schools and communities in implementing evidence-based prevention and intervention programs that can make a difference in the lives of children and communities. The Guide now profiles more than 175 prevention and intervention programs that address a range of issues, including substance abuse, mental health, and education programs.
Users can search the Guide's database by program category, target population, risk and protective factors, effectiveness rating, and other parameters.

CSAP's Northeast CAPT Database of Effective Prevention Programs

CSAP's Northeast CAPT has created an online, searchable database of effective prevention programs approved by a variety of federal and research agencies. The database allows visitors to compare selection criteria across agencies, review information about the sources those agencies used for their evaluations, and find contact information and descriptions of each intervention.

CSAP's Western CAPT's Best and Promising Practices

This searchable database includes practices that have been shown to be effective in preventing substance abuse and/or the risk factors for substance abuse. Information is provided regarding training, technical assistance and/or materials that facilitate replication of each practice.

U.S. Department of Education's Safe and Drug-Free Schools' Exemplary and Promising Programs

The U.S. Department of Education's Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program has used an expert panel process to identify programs that should be promoted nationally as promising or exemplary. A 15-member Expert Panel oversaw a valid and reliable process for identifying effective school-based programs that promote healthy students and safe, disciplined, and drug-free schools. Using this process, the panel identified 9 exemplary and 33 promising programs.

Using Research and Current Data

Monitoring the Future is an ongoing study of the behaviors, attitudes, and values of American secondary school students, college students, and young adults. Each year, a total of approximately 50,000 8th, 10th and 12th grade students are surveyed (12th graders since 1975, and 8th and 10th graders since 1991). In addition, annual follow-up questionnaires are mailed to a sample of each graduating class for a number of years after their initial participation.

The Monitoring the Future Study has been funded under a series of investigator-initiated competing research grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a part of the National Institutes of Health. MTF is conducted at the Survey Research Center in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.