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High Need Students:
Best Practices for Mental Health Prevention and Treatment
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Best Practices of Youth Violence Prevention:
A Sourcebook for Community Action
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/bestpractices.htm
With the homicide rate for youth under the age of 19 averaging 9 deaths
a day over the last decade, the CDC's Injury Center announces the release
of the 216 page publication, entitled Best Practices of Youth Violence
Prevention: A Sourcebook for Community Action (Best Practices). Best Practices
is the first of its kind to look at the effectiveness of specific violence
prevention practices in four key areas: parents and families; home visiting;
social and conflict resolution skills; and mentoring.
These programs are drawn from real-world experiences of professionals and
advocates who have successfully worked to prevent violence among children
and adolescents. As a CDC publication, the sourcebook also documents the
science behind each best practice and offers a comprehensive directory
of resources for more information about programs that have used these practices.
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Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence
http://www.colorado.edu/cspv/blueprints/index.html
In 1996, the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV), at
the University of Colorado at Boulder, with funding from the Colorado Division
of Criminal Justice, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the
Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency, designed and launched
a national violence prevention initiative to identify violence prevention
programs that are effective. The project, called Blueprints for Violence
Prevention, has identified 11 prevention and intervention programs that
meet a strict scientific standard of program effectiveness.
Program effectiveness
is based upon an initial review by CSPV and a final review and recommendation
from a distinguished Advisory Board, comprised of seven experts in the
field of violence prevention. The 11 model programs, called Blueprints,
have been effective in reducing adolescent violent crime, aggression, delinquency,
and substance abuse. Another 21 programs have been identified as promising
programs. To date, more than 600 programs have been reviewed, and the Center
continues to look for programs which meet the selection criteria.
Soon after the initiation of Blueprints, the Office of Juvenile Justice
and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) became an active supporter of the project
and provided funding to CSPV to sponsor program replications in sites across
the United States. As a result, Blueprints has evolved into a large-scale
prevention initiative, both identifying model programs and providing training
and technical assistance to help sites choose and implement a set of demonstrated
effective programs with a high degree of integrity.
While the designers of each program provide training and consultation to
sites, CSPV monitors the quality of replication by conducting a detailed
and comprehensive process evaluation at each site. Little is known about
the implementation problems that cause many programs to fail. A CSPV objective
is to build this body of knowledge about implementation by accumulating
data on the Blueprints replication sites regarding problems encountered,
attempted solutions, which worked or didn’t work and why. We also
collect useful data for screening potential replicators such as organizational
capacity needed, funding stability, commitment, resources, etc., required
for a high probability of success.
Overall, the Blueprints Initiative sets a gold standard for implementing
exemplary, research-based violence and drug programs and for implementing
these programs with fidelity to the models. The work that is being conducted
will help to bridge the gap between knowledge (research) and practice and
inform the users of programs of the barriers that must be overcome in order
to achieve maximum success.
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