List of All Programs (A-Z)


21st Century Community Learning Centers
Program was effective in increasing parental involvement in the schools and changed where and with whom students spent their out-of-school time.

5-A-Day Power Plus Program
Program increased students' consumption more servings of fruits and vegetables during lunchtime.

The Aban Aya Youth Project
Program reduced self-reported violence, provoking behavior, school delinquency, substance use, and sexual activity.

Accelerated Academics Academy
Program had no significant impact on days absent from school, school achievement, self-esteem, or certainty of high school completion.

Action Schools! British Columbia
Program had no impact on physical activity levels.

Active Programme Promoting Lifestyle in Schools (APPLES)
Program increased vegetable intake but also increase sedentary behavior and sugar intake.

Adolescent Alcohol Prevention Trial (AAPT)
School-based program that reduced substance use and abuse.

Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach
Program increased care linkage and retention and longer abstinence from marijuana.

Adolescent Coping with Stress
Program reduced depression and despressive episodes.

Adolescent Social Action Program
Program had no impact on tobacco, alcohol, or substance use.

Adolescent Training and Learning to Avoid Steroids Program (ATLAS)
Program reduced the use of steroids and other illicit drugs, and improved nutrition, exercise behavior, and drug refusal skills.

The Adolescent Transitions Program – Parent and Teen Focus
Program decreased negative parent-child interactions but did not have an impact on on externalizing or smoking behavior.

The Adolescent Transitions Program – Parent Focus
Program positively impacted externalizing and smoking behaviors.

Adventure Island
Program did not have significant impacts on reading or academic behaviors.

Afrocentric Peer Counseling
Program improved reproductive knowledge but had no impacts on delay of intercourse, pregnancy, or contraceptive use.

Aggressors, Victims & Bystanders
Program had no impacts on social problem-solving skills, beliefs supporting violence, behavioral intent, and self reported antisocial behavior.

AIDS-preventive intervention
Program did not impact high-risk adolescents' risky sexual behaviors.

AIDS Education and Counseling in an Office Setting
Program did not show significant differences on reproductive health behaviors.

Al's Pals
Program developed social-emotional competence and coping skills in children.

Alcohol Misuse Prevention Study (AMPS)
School-based education and skills-building program temporarily decreased serious substance use and vehicle offenses in high-schoolers.

Alcohol Skills Training Program
Program provided information and skills to decrease alcohol use among young adults.

AlcoholEdu for College
Program reduced likelihood of playing games and increased knowledge about alcohol.

All4You
Program increased likelihood of students using condoms and decreased frequency of sex.

All Stars
Program that used debates and meetings to reduce adolescent alcohol, cigarette, and inhalant use.

American Heart Association (AHA) Physical Activity Intervention
Program improved outcomes regarding blood pressure and skinfold thickness.

Anger Coping Program
School-based program decreased aggression and problem behavior in school-age boys.

ARREST (AIDS Risk Reduction Education and Skills Training Program)
Program increased adolescents' AIDS-related knowledge and perceived risk of becoming HIV-infected

"Arthur" Television Program
Program improved children’s narrative development compared with children in the control condition who watched the Between the Lions program.

ASSESS
Physician-administered safe-sex education program impacted positive short- and long-term reproductive health outcomes.

Athletes Targeting Healthy Exercise & Nutrition Alternatives (ATHENA)
Program improved athletes' dietary habits, intent to engage in unhealthy behaviors, and knowledge of dietary needs.

Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-Up
Program reduced behavioral problems and stress.

Be Proud! Be Responsible!
School-based program that reduced number of sexual partners and frequency of unprotected sex.

Becoming A Responsible Teen (BART)
Program reduced frequency of sex and unprotected sex and delayed the onset of sexual activity.

Behavioral Weight Control Programme
Program reduced obesity.

Behavioral Weight Loss Program for Children and Their Parents
Program increased weight loss.

Beverages and Student Health (BASH)
Program had no impact on BMI; however, adolescents with high BMI had a significant reduction of BMI.

Bicultural Competence Skills Program (BCSP)
10-session program enhanced social skills and decreased substance use in bicultural adolescents.

Bienestar Health Program
Program lowered fasting glucose levels and increased physical fitness scores and dietary fiber intake in students.

Big Brothers/Big Sisters
Intensive mentoring program had positive impacts on social, academic, and substance use outcomes.

Block the Sun, Not the Fun
Program increased the likelihood of sunscreen being applied to children.

Boot Camp
Program had no impacts on behavior problems or delinquency.

BrainPower
Program reduced aggressive behavior and improved self control.

Breakthrough To Literacy (BTL)
Program had no observable impacts on children's early literacy skills.

Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention of College Students (BASICS)
Program reduced drinking quantity and increased the perception of drinking consequences.

Brief Strategic Family Therapy
Program reduced externalizing behavior and drug and alcohol abuse.

The Buddy System
Mentoring program decreased criminal behaviors in youth who had previously committed serious crimes.

Building Early Language and Literacy
Program engaged teachers in oral language, phonological awareness, and print awareness activities, but did not have any impacts on child related outcomes in these areas.

Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL) Summer Learning Program
Program improved reading skills and parental involvement.

Busselton Health Study
Program reduced sleep disorders and fears.

Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study
Program did not show any positive impact on arrest rates.

Canvassing program
Phone-based and face-to-face canvassing increased rates of voter turnout among young adults.

Career Academies
Program with mentoring component worked to decrease problem behaviors and increase social skills and attitudes in school-age children.

Career Beginnings
Program with mentoring, academic, and workplace components has positive impacts on youths’ academic and professional achievements.

Carolina Abecedarian Project
High-quality child care promoted positive cognitive, education, and reproductive outcomes later in life.

CASASTART
Community-wide, multi-component youth development program decreased middle schoolers' chances of repeating a grade.

Case-Management Program for Academic Enhancement
Program improved grades and attendance among girls at risk of school failure.

CAST (Coping and Support Training)
School-based program reduced suicidal ideation, depression, hopelessness, anxiety, and anger.

Catch 'Em Being Good
Program reduced extremely antisocial behavior among white males.

Check and Connect
Program increased attendance and decreased school mobility.

Checkpoints Program
Program improved driving habits of youth.

Child and Adolescent Trial for Cardiovascular Health (CATCH)
Multicomponent health program decreased fat intake and increased physical activity in children and adolescents.

Child Health Supervision
Program improved diet and feeding, development, and problem behaviors.

Child Parent Psychotherapy for Family Violence (CPP-FV)
Program decreased negative self-views.

Children Are People Too (CAP)
Program decreased social isolation, improved peer relations, and reduced interpersonal aggression and disruptive conduct.

"Children Get a Head Start on the Road to Good Nutrition" Head Start Curriculum Guide
Program improved food and nutrition attitudes and increased positive food behavior.

Children of Divorce Intervention Program (CODIP)
School-based program improved children's social competence and self-esteem and reduced problem behaviors.

Children's Aid Society  (CAS)/Carerra
Multi-year, year-round, after-school program fostered general and sexual health in teens.

Class Action - Project Northland Phase 2
Program reduced alcohol use and sales of alcohol to young-looking customers.

Clinic-Based AIDS Education Programs for Adolescent Females
Program increased likelihood that adolescent females redeemed coupons for free condoms.

Clinician-based Cognitive Psychoeducational Intervention for Families
Program improved parents' depression-related attitudes and behaviors and reduced child internalizing symptoms.

Cognitive Behavior Therapy
Specific type of therapy has alleviated depression and anxiety in adolescents and teens.

Cognitive Behavioral Family Intervention (CBFI)
Program reduced maternal depression and child disruptive behavior.

Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools
Program reduced symptoms of PTSD, depression, and psychological dysfunction.

Cognitive-Behavioral Training Program for Behaviorally Disordered Adolescents
Students in classes assigned to receive this training were observed engaging in aggressive behavior significantly less frequently than students assigned to the control group following the intervention.

Cognitive/Affective Empathy Training Program
Students assigned to receive this empathy training scored significantly higher on a measure of affective empathy than did students assigned to the control group.

Cognitive-Relaxation Coping Skills (CRCS)
Program reduced forms of anger and had impacts on depression, shyness, general deviance, and anxiety.

Cognitively Guided Instruction
School-based program that increased math skills and problem-solving strategies.

Communication Skills Condom Use Program
Program improved positive attitudes toward condoms, condom use self-efficacy, and intention to use condoms.

Communication Skills Training program (CST)
16-session program improved communication skills in adolescents.

Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol
Program engaged various community institutions to decrease youth drunk driving.

Comprehensive Child Development Program
Program did not produce positive impacts for participating families.

Comprehensive Oral Hygiene Training Program
Program improved sugar intake, flossing habits, and oral hygiene knowledge.

Computer-Delivered Sexual Risk Reduction Intervention
Program increased condom use knowledge.

Condom Intervention With Women
Program increased the likelihood of condom use at last intercourse.

Condom Promotion Videos for College Students
Program increased students' likelihood of intention of condom use.

Conflict Resolution Training Program
Program increased likelihood of students resolving conflict during free play.

Consulting Program for Teachers to Prevent Vandalism
Program increased amount of praise given to students by teachers and decreased school vandalism.

Contingent Math Tutoring
School-based program improved math scores.

Coping Cats
Program reduced symptoms of anxiety.

The Coping Power Program
Program reduced rates of substance use and delinquent behavior while also improving children’s social competence and behavior.

Coping With Depression (CWD-A)
Program increased self-esteem and reduced depression.

Creating Lasting Connections
Program showed positive impacts on service utilization by parents and youth as well as on measures of parent knowledge.

¡Cuídate!
Program increased likelihood of reported condom usage and decreased likelihood.

Culturally Appropriate STD/AIDS Education in a Clinic Setting
Program increased confidence in ability to use condoms.

DaisyQuest
Program had mixed results in increasing phonological awareness.

Dance for Health
Program developed social-emotional competence and coping skills in children.

DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education)
Program had no impact on drug use.

Dare to be You
Program increased parenting competence and satisfaction, as well as increasing positive parenting practices such as limit-setting and reducing harsh discipline. The program was also effective in reducing problem and oppositional behavior in children and increasing their level of development.

Dartmouth Prevention Project
Program increased bicycle helmet use, but it did not have impacts on smoking, alcohol use, seatbelt use, or gun storage.

DC HOPE
Program had no impacts on risk factors.

Dialogic Reading
Program increased children's performance on some measures of expressive vocabulary and verbal fluency.

Diet and Exercise Program for Families
Program reduced children's percentage overweight.

Dietary Intervention Study in Children (DISC)
Program reduced cholesterol among children with high levels of LDL cholesterol.

Direct Instruction and Mediated Learning
Program increased children's development and cognitive processes.

Discharge From Parole
Program had no impact on number of arrests, convictions, or time to offenses or convictions.

Doors to Discovery
Program improved auditory comprehension, vocabulary, phonological awareness, letter and word identification, and sound awareness/rhyming.

Draw the Line/Respect the Line
Program reduced likelihood of initiation of sex among boys.

Early Head Start
Program with center- and home-based services had positive impacts on parents and children in low-income families.

Early Intervention Program for Adolescent Mothers
Program reduced premature births and infant hospitalization duration through promotion of positive maternal behaviors.

Early Literacy and Learning Model
Program increased letter recognition and emerging literacy scores.

Early Literacy Skills Builder
Program improved nonverbal literacy, phonemix awareness, and early literacy skills.

Early Risers
Program reduced disruptive behavior among children who have exhibited aggressive behavior through parent education and skills training

Early Start
Program improved outcomes on healthcare visits, check-ups, hospital visits, positive parenting attitudes, and child internalizing.

Early Training Project
Program increased children's performance on assessments on IQ, receptive vocabulary, word knowledge, word discrimination, and reading.

Eddie Eagle GunSafe Program and Behavior Skills Training Gun Safety Program
Program showed that children were more likely to know the proper response upon finding a gun.

Emergency Department-Based Asthma Intervention
Program increased likelihood of a follow-up physician visit but had no impacts on asthma.

Ending Violence
Program had immediate impacts on acceptance of dating violence and intention to seek help if involved with dating violence.

Enhanced Managing Pressures Before Marriage (MPM)
Program showed a positive impact on parent-child communication and self-efficacy and lowered intent to have sex.

Equipping Youth to Help One Another (EQUIP)
Program decreased reported misconduct and increased social skills.

Even Start
Program that provided adult, parenting, and early childhood education positively impacted some parent and child outcomes.

Everybody's Different
Program participants showed declines in body dissatisfaction, importance of social acceptance, and increases in perceived physical appearance.

Experience Corps
Program using adult volunteers in the classroom increased standardized reading test scores and reduced misbehavior referrals.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Processing (EMDR)
Program improved outcomes in depression, anxiety, self-concept, and PTSD.

Facts & Feelings
Program increased family communication about sexuality in the short term.

Familias Unidas
Program improved parental investment and adolescent behavior problems.

Families and Schools Together
Program reduced variability in reading and math scores.

Families and Schools Together (American Indian adaptation)
Program reduced aggressive and withdrawn behavior in children.

Families First
Program decreased child behavior problems and increased parent effectiveness.

Families United to Prevent Teen Pregnancy (FUPTP)
School-based program that had no impact on students' abstinence, sexual onset, sexual partners, pregnancy rate, STD acquisition, and contraceptive use.

Family-Based Behavior Modification Program to Target Obesity
Program increased parent weight loss.

The Family Bereavement Program (FBP)
Program increased positive affect, active inhibition, and positive coping.

The Family Health Project
Program improved dietary behavior of Mexican-American and Anglo-American families.

Family Matters
Program decreased and prevented cigarette use and, to a smaller degree, reduced alcohol use and onset.

Family Planning Clinic Support Services
Program did not impact contraceptive use or pregnancy rates.

Family/Media Approach to HIV Prevention
Program increased knowledge of HIV, AIDS, and STDs and family problem-solving skills.

Family Therapy as a Supplement to Dietary Counseling for Obese Children
Program increased fitness and reduced skinfold thickness.

Fast Track Prevention Project
Comprehensive, ten-year intervention program had positive impacts on high-risk children’s development.

First Step to Success (FSS)
Program positively impacted young children’s behavior problems. 

"Fit for Life" Boy Scout Badge
Program increased boys light activity and marginally decreased their sedentary time.

Focus
Program decreased likelihood of unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection.

Focus on Families
Program reduced drug use and domestic conflict and increased problem-solving for parents, but showed no direct impact on children.

Focus on Kids
Program increased likelihood of condom use.

Fostering Individualized Assistance Program (FIAP)
Program decreased placement changes and time spent as a runaway.

Friendly PEERsuasion
School-based program had success in increasing young girls' avoidance of cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs.

FRIENDS Program
Program reduced anxiety symptoms among sixth grade students.

Functional Family Therapy
Program helped treat existing behavioral problems and was associated with decreased recidivism and re-institutionalization.

Georgia FitKid Project
School-based program did not have any positive impacts.

Gimmie 5 (4th and 5th Grade Students)
Program increased students' consumption of fruits and vegetables.

Gimmie 5: A Fresh Nutrition Concept for Students
Program increased students' knowledge of fruit and vegetable nutrition

Girlfriends for KEEPS
Program for girls increased healthy choice behavior intentions, diet knowledge, and preference for physical activity.

GO GIRLS!
Program decreased students' weight concerns and increased their positive view towards making friends.

Good Behavior Game (GBG)
Classroom based program decreased male students' levels of aggression and likelihood of smoking in early adolescence.

Griffin-Spalding Middle School Academy
Program had no significant impacts on English or math grades, dropoutrate, self-esteem, or certainty of completing high school

Guiding Good Choices (formerly Preparing for the Drug Free Years)
Program decreased growth in adolescent alcohol use and negative parent-child interactions.

Head Start
Program was effective in increasing early cognitive development in the areas of reading, writing, and vocabulary.

Head Strong
Program reduced headache frequency, duration, and intensity.

Health Belief Model Intervention to Increase Condom Use Among High-Risk Female Adolescents
Program increased condom use among females.

Healthy Families New York (HFNY)
Home-visiting program effective in reducing the amount of child abuse and neglect.

Healthy for Life Project (HFL)
School-based program designed to change health risk behaviors had null or negative impacts on sexual health outcomes.


Healthy Start Program
Program reduced reported neglect by mothers.

Healthy Steps for Young Children
Program increased likelihood of usage of covers on electrical outlets.

Healthy Weight Regulation Curriculum
Girls assigned to the treatment group scored significantly higher than girls assigned to the control group on a test of healthy weight regulation knowledge.

Hear and Say Reading with Toddlers
Program increased parent reading behaviors and children's language use.

Heart Smart School Health Promotion
Program increased "good" cholesterol and fitness levels.

Heritage Keepers Life Skills Education
Program showed no significant impacts.

High 5
Program increased students' consumption of fruits and vegetables

High School Smoking Prevention Program
Program showed no significant impacts.

High Scope Perry Preschool
High-quality preschool/home-visiting program produced numerous positive, long-term impacts.


Hip-Hop to Health Jr.
Program was effective in preventing large increases in children's Body Mass Index.

Home-Based Nurse Intervention (INT)
Program had no impact on child's behavior problems but did reduce withdrawn behavior.

Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY)
Home-visitation program improved school readiness in children.


Home Visiting Intervention for Depressed Mothers and Their Infants
Program improved mother-infant interaction, child competence, and child attachment security.

Home Visiting to Vulnerable Families by Nurses
Program increased parent and family functioning and parental satisfaction with community health services.

Home Visitation Trial for Urban Women
Program did not impact psychoogical distress or self-esteem.

Homebuilders
Program decreased time until reunification.

Hospital and Home Support Interventions During Infancy
Program had no impact on maternal attachment, healthcare utilization, or child abuse and neglect.

Howard Street Tutoring Program
One-on-one tutoring improved reading and writing outcomes in low-ability elementary school readers.

Hutchinson Smoking Prevention Project (HSPP)
Multi-year school-based program, focused on social influences to smoke, did not impact teens' smoking behaviors.

Hygiene Intervention for Child Care Centers
Program reduced the number of colds among children 24 months of age and younger.

Hygiene Intervention for Preschool Students
Program increased students' hand-washing behavior.

Hygienic Intervention in Child Day-Care Centers
Program improved caregivers handwashing practices, but rates of illnesses at treatment centers were not impacted.

Impaired Minds Produce Actions Causing Trauma (IMPACT)
Program increased knowledge about injuries caused by engaging in high-risk behaviors.

Incredible Years Series
Intervention program for those at-risk for behavior problems.  Program enhanced parenting skills and improved children's academic and social competence.

Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP)
Program with home visiting, child care, and parenting meetings produced positive impacts in low birthweight children.

Informed Parents and Children Together (ImPACT)
Program increased demonstration of adolescents' condom-use skills.

The Insiders Juvenile Crime Prevention Program
Program reduced court intakes and delinquency involvement scores.

Intensive Supervision Program in Detroit, Michigan
Program reduced mean number of criminal charges, charge seriousness, and months incarcerated.

Interactive Book Reading
Program participants scored significantly higher on measures of both receptive and expressive vocabulary.

Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Postpartum Depression
Program reduced parental stress but had no impacts on infant outcomes.

Interpersonal Skills Program
Program increased the number of solutions children could generate to solve a social problem.

Intervention to Increase Father Involvement
Program increased father-child interaction and accessibility.

Job Corps
Multi-component program for disadvantaged youth has many positive impacts as well as some null and negative impacts.

Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training Program (JOBS)
Program of job-related and support services had mixed impacts on children's developmental outcomes.

Job Training Partnership Act
Program that provides various job-training services had positive and negative impacts.

JobStart
Multi-component program had positive impacts on employment- and education-related outcomes.

Kaiser Kids Sun Care Program
Program showed parents of children increased engagement in more sun protection practices.

Keep a Clear Mind
Program increased parent-child communication about resisting peer pressure related to drug and alcohol use.

Keepin' it R.E.A.L.
Program reduced gateway drug usage and improved norms, attitudes, and resistance strategies towards drug use.

Kids Can Bike
Program had no impact on bike safety or knowledge.

KindergARTen Summer Camp
Program improved reading and word list scores.

Know Your Body
Program decreased students' smoking and increased nutritious diet consumption.

Leadership Education Through Athletic Development (LEAD)
Program increased students' cognitive, affective, and physical self-regulation and were rated as more prosocial by their teachers.

Lifestyle Education for Activity Program (LEAP)
Program increased likelihood of reporting regular vigorous physical activity.

Learning Language and Loving It: The Hanen Program for Early Childhood Educators
High-quality child care promoted positive cognitive, education, and reproductive outcomes later in life.

Let's Begin with the Letter People
Program  improved auditory comprehension, vocabulary, phonological awareness, letter and word identification, and sound awareness/rhyming.

Life Skills Training (LST)
Multi-year drug use prevention program decreased substance use in adolescents.

Linking the Interests of Families and Teachers (LIFT)
School-based and parenting components had positive impacts on school-age children's and adolescents' social skills.

LionsQuest "Skills for Adolescence"
Program delayed cigarette and marijuana use.

Making A Difference!
School-based program that increased condom use after 12 months.

Making Proud Choices!
School-based program that reduced frequency of unprotected sex.

Marvelous Me
Program improved self-concept of at-risk children.

Mastery Learning
Program increased math scores among children.

Mathletics
School-based program improved math test scores.

The McMaster Teen Program
School-based program that showed no positive impact on abstinence, contraception, or pregnancy.

Mentor-Implemented Violence Prevention Intervention for Assault-Injured Youth
Program increased conflict avoidance self-efficacy and decreased misdemeanor behaviors.

Metropolitan Area Child Study (MACS)
Program reduced aggression in urban-poor neighborhoods with higher levels of school and community resources.


Middle School Physical Activity and Nutrition (M-SPAN)
Program improved BMI and physical activity for boys but not for girls.


Midwestern Prevention Project
Program employed individual, parental, and community components to decrease drug use in adolescents.

Minnesota Competence Enhancement Project (MCEP)
Program showed no impacts on child behavior.

Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP)
Social welfare service had positive impacts on welfare-receiving parents and children.

Monetary Incentive Program
Program improved grades and attendance among girls at risk of school failure.

Montreal Prevention Experiment
Program increased boys' performance on measures of school adjustment and delinquency.

Motivational Brief Intervention for High-Risk College Student Drinkers
Program reduced alcohol consumption.

Moving to Opportuniy program (MTO)
Program that enabled families to move to better neighborhoods has mixed impacts on children, adolescents and youth.

Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT)
Program reduced rates of drug use, increased academic performance, and improved family functioning.

Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC)
Program reduced rates of incarceration, arrests, and drug use among youth.

Multisystemic Therapy
Program improved family correlates of antisocial behavior and ameliorating adjustment problems.

My Baby U
Video- and book-based program impacted positive infant health and parenting outcomes.

My Choice, My Future!
School-based program that had no impact on students' abstinence, sexual onset, sexual partners, pregnancy rate, STD acquisition, and contraceptive use.

New Beginnings
Program reduced the development of mental disorders and disorders in general.

New Chance
Program that provided comprehensive services had mixed impacts on disadvantaged families.

New Hope Project
Program positively impacted parents' employment and poverty status and children's educational and behavioral outcomes.

Nuestras Familias
Program improved youth outcomes in aggression, externalizing behavior, and likelihood of smoking.

Nurse-Family Partnership
Home visiting-based program had several positive impacts on poor unmarried mothers and their children.

Nurturing Program for Teenage Parents and Their Families
Program decreased parent-child dysfunction and inappropriate expectations, but had no impact on mental health or parental stress levels.

Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment for Child Care (NAP-SACC)
Program had a nonsignificant increase in physical activity.

Obesity-Focused Active Parenting
Home visiting program had no impacts on nutrition, physical activity, or weight.

Ohio Learning, Earning, and Parenting Program (LEAP)
Financial incentive-based program positively impacted teen parents' educational, financial, and employment outcomes.

Online Treatment for Pediatric Recurrent Pain
Program decreased pain among children.

Osteoporosis Prevention and Self-Management Course
Program increased mother's probability of increasing her child's calcium intake.

Paint Creek Youth Center
Program did not show any impacts on recidivism.

Parent-Child Assistance Program
Children of mothers in the program were not more likely to have received regular medical care or appropriate immunizations. 

Parent-Child Home Program
Program increased graduation rates and decreased drop-out rates later in life for children.

Parent-Child Interaction Therapy
Program was effective in reducing repeat cases of physical abuse and reduced parental depression and negative parenting behaviors.

Parent Education Group for Families Affected by Depression
Program improved family and school functioning.

Parent Management Training - Oregon Model (PMTO)
Program decreased child deviant behavior.
Parent-Mediated Treatment Program
Program increased child compliance and positive parenting behavior.

Parent-Targeted Intervention for Adolescent Substance Use Prevention
Program had no impact on substance use or parenting behaviors.

Parental Training and Contingency Contracting for Overweight Children
Program impacts are undetermined.

Parenting Adolescents Wisely (PAW) Program
Program was found to reduce problematic child behaviors.

Parenting Through Change (PTC)
Program reduced delinquency and deviate peer affiliation.

Parents as Teachers
Home visiting-based parent education program had small but positive impacts on parents and their young children.

Parents' Fair Share Demonstration
Program slightly increased formal child support, but had no impact on paternal employment or involvement with child.

Peacebuilders
Program decreased physical and verbal aggression.

 

Penn Prevention Program (PPP)
Addition of community component reduced the typical increase of tobacco use in teens.

Peer Coping Skills Training (PCS)
Program reduced teacher ratings of aggression in children and increased teacher ratings of prosocial coping.

Peer Intervention Program
Driver education-based program led to higher rates of teen intervention in peers' drinking and driving behaviors.

Peer-led HIV Prevention Education
Program improved HIV knowledge, but did not impact condom usage or number of sexual partners.

Phonological Awareness Training (PAT)
Program has not shown to increase phonological awareness.

Phonological Awareness Training and Letter Knowledge Training
Program increased participants' oral language but showed mixed effects on print knowledge, phonological processing, and early reading/writing.

Physical Activity and Teenage Health (PATH)
Program improved girls' cholesterol, cardiovascular health, and dietary behaviors.

Physical Training Program for Obese Children
Program improved body composition, aerobic fitness, and physical activity.

Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS)
Program increased the rate of children's initiations to communication.

Plan a Safe Strategy Program (PASS)
School based program reduced drunk driving and reports of being a passenger of a drunk driver.


Planet Health
Program reduced obesity among females and increased daily intake of fruits and vegetables.


Positive Action Family Program
Program increased family cohesion and parent-child bonding and decreased family conflict.

Positive Action Program
Program reduced violent behavior, substance use, bullying, suspensions, and absenteeism and increased reading and math standardized test scores.

Positive Parenting
Program decreased child-reported aggression, delinquency, victimization, and attention problems.

Positive Prevention
Program reduced likelihood of initiation of sexual activity.

Positive Youth Development Program
Classroom-based program improved social skills in adolescents.

 

Postponing Sexual Involvement
Postponing Sexual Involvement (PSI) is a middle school sex education curriculum that focuses on delaying sexual activity.

Preventing Adolescent Problems
School-based program that improved students' attendance and grades.

Preventive Alcohol Education Program
Program increased knowledge on alcohol effects and ability to refute pro-drinking pressures.

Primary Project
Program improved outcomes on school adjustment, learning problems, social skills, and task orientation.
 

Problem Solving for Life
School-based program decreased depressive symptoms and increased problem-solving skills for adolescents with high risk for depression.


Problem Solving Program for Childhood Obesity
Program did not have favorable impacts on BMI, but did positively impact parent problem solving behaviors.
 

Progresa Poverty Program
Program increased enrollment rates and education levels of poor children.

Project 4-Health
Program showed positive changes in  knowledge about smoking and attitudes toward smoking and decreases in intention to smoke in the future.


Project ACCEL
Program had no significant impact on dropout rate, school achievement, self-esteem, or certainty of high school completion.


Project AIM (Adult Identity Mentoring)
Program increased likelihood of students abstaining from intercourse.

 

Project ALERT
School-based drug use prevention program made short-term reductions in adolescents' substance use.

Project Aware
Program for juvenile delinquents decreased the likelihood of subjects dropping out of school.

Project BELONG
Mentoring/tutoring program had positive educational and behavioral impacts on at-risk adolescents.

Project CARE
Program increased cognitive development among children at risk for delayed development.

Project CHARM
Program increased students' AIDS knowledge and reduced the number of sexual partners at the six-month followup.

Project EX
Program was found to increase the likelihood of quitting smoking among teens.

Project Iris
Program reduced identification of students with disabilities and retaining in grade.

Project Northland
Multi-year, multi-component program lowered adolescents' substance use and susceptibility to peer influence.

Project Ploughshares Puppets for Peace (P4)
Program had no impacts on knowledge about bullying.

Project RESPECT
Program reduced incidence of new STDs.

Project SAFE (Strengthening America's Families and Environment)
Program improved student school bonding, parenting skills, social competence, family relationships, and student self-regulation.

Project Sixteen
Addition of community component reduced the typical increase of tobacco use in teens.

Project SNAPP
Interactive peer-led pregnancy/AIDS prevention program did not impact adolescent sexual health behaviors.

Project SPARK
Program improved frequency of physical activity but had no impact on body fat.

Project Support
Program improved child management skills and child's conduct problems.

Project Taking Charge
Program was found to  increase adolescents' and parents' knowledge of sexual development and STDs.

Project TALC
Program reduced adolescents' emotional distress and conduct problems and raised levels of self-esteem.

Project Toward No Tobacco Use (Project TNT)
Classroom-based program with follow-up booster sessions reduces tobacco use in adolescents.

Project Towards No Drugs
School-based program decreased alcohol and hard drug use in high-schoolers.

Project TRUST
Program increased students' knowledge of victimization prevention information.

Project WIN
Program increased cooperative attitudes toward classmates and conflict.

Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies (PATHS)
School-based program which increased children's ability to manage emotions and helped encourage them to discuss their feelings.

Promoting Emergent Math Skills and Math Interest in Preschool-Aged Children
Program improved children's math skills and increased their level of interest in math as measured by both teacher and student reports.

Protecting You/Protecting Me (PY/PM)
Program increased awareness about vehicle safety and reduced children's intentions to ride with impaired drivers.

Quantum Opportunities Program (QOP)
Intensive, multi-year program had positive impacts on disadvantaged teens' educational, reproductive, and community service outcomes.

Raising Healthy Children
Program increased students' academic performance and commitment to school and decreased antisocial behaviors.

Reach for Health Service Learning Program
Program reduced the likelihood of participants initiating sex by 10th grade.

Reach Out and Read (ROR)
Program that integrated early literacy into pediatric check-ups had positive impacts on family reading behaviors.

Reaching Educators, Children and Parents (RECAP)
Program improved children's internalizing and externalizing problems.

Read to Achieve Summer Literacy Day Camp
Program improved reading comprehension test scores.

Reading One-to-One
Low-cost tutoring program had positive impacts on children's reading skills.

Ready, Set, Leap!
Program increased participants' early literacy skills

Ready to Learn
Program improvement over time on understanding of story structure, teacher ratings of behavior, and observer ratings of attending behavior.

Real Men
Program increased likelihood of sex-related topic discussion between fathers and sons.

Recapturing the Vision
School-based program that had no impact on students' abstinence, sexual onset, sexual partners, pregnancy rate, STD acquisition, and contraceptive use.

Reconnecting Youth
School-based program decreased dropout, substance use and behavior problems in high-risk teens.

Reducing Children's Television Viewing to Prevent Obesity
Program reduced television viewing and improved body composition.

Reducing Sedentary Behavior
Program decreased sedentary behavior and intake of fruits and vegetables.

RELATE Program for Teens
School-based program was effective in increasing positive social behaviors and reducing negative social behaviors.

Reproductive Health Counseling for Young Men
Program increased participants' fertility knowledge and knowledge of the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases.

Resolve It, Solve It
Program reduced person-directed physical aggression.

Responding in Peaceful and Positive Ways
Program increased the knowledge-base of participants.

Restorative Justice Conferencing
Program reduced offender re-arrest.

Safe Child Program
Program was effective in teaching the children skills to decrease their risk of being abused and abducted.

Safe Dates
Program decreased students' favorable attitudes toward dating violence and students were less likely to report being perpetrators of abuse in their current relationship.

Safe Performance Curriculum
Program increased student likelihood of obtaining a license, getting in a car accident, and receiving a traffic violation.

Safe Teen Work Project
Program that provided training and safer equipment led to reductions in on-the-job injury.

SAFEChildren
Program was effective in increasing children’s reading ability and retaining parent involvement in the school over time.

Safer Choices
Multi-component sexuality education program led to higher rates of condom usage in high-schoolers.

San Quentin Squires Program
Program improved boys' attitudes towards crime and police, but did not show any impact on delinquent behavior

Saving Sex for Later
Parent-focused sex education curriculum increased parent-child communication, parent self-efficacy, and the influence parents had on their children.

School Attendance Demonstration Project
Multi-component service delivery program improved school attendance in AFDC-receiving teens.


School-Based Cardiovascular Exercise and Nutrition Program with Parent Participation

Program increased fruit and vegetable intake and exercise and nutrition knowledge.
 

School-Based Intervention to Reduce Aggressive Behavior in Maladjusted Adolescents
Program decreased negative behavior in students.

School Choice Scholarships Program
Program showed positive impacts for African American students.

School Nurse-Delivered Adolescent Smoking Cessation Counseling Intervention
Program had impacts on plans to quit smoking, self confidence to quit, and cessation of smoking.

Schools and Homes in Partnership (SHIP)
Program decreased negative social interactions and reduced aggressive, coercive, or antisocial behavior.

Schools Without Failure (SWF)
School-based program changed teacher behaviors and reduced teacher referrals to the principal.

SCRIPT (Screening and Intervention of Problem Behavior in Toddlerhood) Study
Program improved positive maternal discipline and attitudes towards sensitivity, but it had no impact on maternal sensitivity or negative maternal discipline.

SEARCH/TEACH Tutoring
Program did not have any impact on word comprehension, phonetic analysis, reading/decoding, written spelling, and reading achievement.

Second Step
Program reduced levels of observed aggressive behavior and increased pro-social behavior among elementary school-aged children.

Seeking Safety
Program reduced levels of chemical involvement, reasons for substance use, and trauma-related symptoms.

Self Sufficiency Project (SSP)
Income supplement program increased parental employment and income as well as children's' school achievement and activity involvement.


Sembrando Salud
Program improved parent-child communication in households with fewer children.


SHAPEDOWN
Program improved adolescents' relative weight, weight-related behavior, self-esteem, depressive symptoms, and weight management knowledge.

Signs of Suicide Prevention Program
Program was effective in increasing knowledge about suicide and depression and decreasing suicidal ideations and attempts.

Sistering, Informing, Healing, Loving, and Empowering (SiHLE)
Program reduced likelihood of acquiring Chlamydia.

Skill-based intervention on condom use
Program did not produce significant impacts on high-risk teens' sexual behavior.

Skills for Academic and Social Success
Program reduced anxiety and social avoidance in adolescents.

Smoke Free Class Competition
Program lessened the proportion of increased smokers in schools.

Social Aggression Prevention Program (SAPP)
Program reduced gossip and aggression levels.

Social Cognitive Training (SCT)
Program increased self-confidence and improved peer relationships.

Social Influences Curriculum
Program reduced likelihood of ever smoking and reduced daily and weekly smoking.

Social Learning Parent Training
Program decreased parent perceived adjustment problems, child behavior problems, and risk for negative behaviors.

Social Problem-Solving (SPS)
Program increased problem-solving skills.
 

Social Skills and Academic Skills Training for Rejected Boys
Program increased social preference ratings by peers and increased reading comprehension scores.

Social Skills Training Program for Children With ADHD
Program increased assertion scores for children and parents.

Social Skills Training Program for Children's Social Functioning
School-based program increased self-esteem ratings and social activity levels of isolated and/or rejected children.

Social Skills Training Program for Pre-Adolescent Girls with Few Friends
Program increased participants' time interacting in conversation and with others and decreased time spent alone.

Sound Foundations
Program increased children's ability to recognize phonemes and identify the proper verbalization of written words.

South Oxnard Challenge Program (SOCP)
Program was effective in increasing the amount of contact with staff, the amount of time that was spent on a child's case, and the child's use of referral services.

Spit Tobacco Intervention for High School Athletes
Program successfully promoted spit tobacco cessation among current users.

Stanford Adolescent Heart Health Program
School-based program had positive impacts on teen health and health behaviors.

STAR (Stop, Think, Ask, Respond) Parenting Program
Program improved parent-child interaction and reduced parent angrer and child behavioral and emotional problems.

STARS (Start Taking Alcohol Risks Seriously) for Families
Program reduced alcohol use and intent to drink alcohol.

Staying Connected With Your Teen
Program improved attitudes toward reducing substance use.

Steps to Respect Bullying Prevention Program
Program increased agreeable social interactions and students’ feelings of responsibility in bullying situations involving peers.

STOP Technique and the Insight Program
Program reduced depressive symptoms, negative thinking, and chronic stressors among mothers with children ages 2-6 years.

STORIES
Program reduced externalizing behavior and normative beliefs about aggression among students with low aggression.  The program had negative impacts for students with high aggression.

Strengthening Families Program for Parents and Youth 10-14 (Formerly Iowa Strengthening Families Program)
Program for parents and adolescents improved parenting skills and strengthened parent-adolescent relationship.

Strong African American Families (SAAF)
Program decreased risk behaviors in children and increased positive parenting.

Structured Learning Training (SLT)
School-based program increased students' assertive interactions with teachers, peers, and parents.

Students for Peace
Program increased students' consumption more servings of fruits and vegetables during lunchtime.

Students Managing Anger Resolution Together (SMART) Talk
Program increased students' awareness of their responses to anger, knowledge about anger triggers, and intentions to use non-violent solutions to resolve conflict.

Study of Mentoring in the Learning Environment (SMILE)
Program improved connectedness to peers, self-esteem, and social support from friends.

Success for All
Program increased word identification and other phonological skills.

Summer Career Exploration Program
Program positively impacted college preparation and confidence in career.

Summer Training and Education Program (STEP)
Community- and school-level program had positive short-term, but not long-term, behavioral impacts.

Sunny Days, Healthy Ways
Program increased knowledge of sun safety and decreased favorable attitudes towards tanning.

Superkids/Superfit
Program had no impact on BMI or skinfold thickness.

Talking Parents, Healthy Teens
Program increase parent-child communication on sexual health.

Targeted Messages for HIV Prevention
Program increased knowledge about HIV/AIDS and prevention strategies.

Teach Baltimore
Program increased academic performance.

Teaching Students to be Peacemakers
School-based program that was found to be effective in teaching children more constructive conflict negotiation strategies.

Team Assisted Individualization (TAI) for Math
Program improved math achievement scores and reduced behavior problems

Team Building Exercise Program
Program increased school attendance.

Technical Skills Condom Use Program
Clinic-based program improved positive attitudes toward condoms, intention to use condoms, and condom use self-efficacy.

Teen Court
Community-based intervention increased delinquency among juvenile offenders.

Teen Intervene
Program reduced alcohol use and substance use related consequences.

Teen Outreach Program (TOP)
Multi-component volunteering program had positive impacts on educational, reproductive, and certain behavioral outcomes.

Teen Talk
School based program increased the likelihood of abstinent males maintaining abstinence, and sexually active males consistently using contraception.

Teenage Parent Demonstration
Multicomponent program had short-term positive impacts on certain teen parent outcomes; null effects on various teen parent and child outcomes.

Teens in Control
School-based program that had no impact on students' abstinence, sexual onset, sexual partners, pregnancy rate, STD acquisition, and contraceptive use.

TeenSTAR
Abstinence-centered program delayed the onset of sexual activity and decreased sexual activity.

Three Generations Project
Program positively impacted adolescent mothers with mixed results for subsequent births and parenting attitudes.

Tobacco Policy Options for Prevention (TPOP)
Program reduced tobacco usage.

Toddlers Without Tears
Program decreased parents' unreasonable developmental expectations and harsh discipline practices.

Too Good For Drugs
Program reduced intention to use alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana.

Tools of the Mind
Program participants performed significantly better on some measures of verbal skills and behavior regulation.  Classrooms also scored significantly better on measures of global classroom quality and instructional quality.

Transactional Model of Early Home Intervention
Program improved child's home environment and cognitive development.

Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
Program reduced the symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder.

Triple P-Positive Parenting Program
Program reduced child behavior problems and dysfunctional parenting styles, and increased parental competence.

Twelve Together
Program had no impact on school attendance, dropout rate, self-esteem, and school acheivement.

UCLA Family Development Project
Program was effective in increasing the mothers’ responsiveness to their child’s needs as well as increasing children's secure, autonomy, and task involvement.

Untitled Clinic-Based Bicycle Helmet Promotion
Program had no impact on helmet purchase

Untitled Health Care Program for First-Time Adolescent Mothers and their Infants
Program participants had a decreased likelihood of a repeat pregnancy and increased likelihood of immunization for infants.

Untitled Fitness and Nutrition Intervention
Program improved diet and blood pressure, especially for girls.

Untitled Information-Based AIDS Intervention
Program prevention outcome expectancies and AIDS knowledge.

Untitled Lifestyle-Focused Physical Activity Intervention
School-based program that reduced substance use and abuse.

Untitled Nutrition Education Behavior Change Strategy
Program improved nutrition intake.

Untitled Prevention Intervention for Hispanic Couples
Program had no significant impact on increasing effective and consistent contraceptive use.

Untitled Program for Siblings of Children with Disabilities
After-school program improved socioemotional functioning and reduced stress and self-esteem anxiety.

Untitled School-based Exercise Education Program
Program decreased skinfold thickness and increased aerobic power.

Untitled School-based Physical Activity Intervention
Program increased physical activity for boys.

Untitled School-based Physical Training Intervention
Program increased students' consumption more servings of fruits and vegetables during lunchtime.

Untitled School Based Suicide-Prevention Program
Program increased feelings of personal control.

Untitled School Detention Experiment
Program had no impact on tardiness

Untitled Social Cognitive AIDS Intervention
Program increased intention to use and confidence in using condoms.

Untitled Social Cognitive Theory-Based Intervention
School-based program was effective in helping children generate more solutions and appropriate responses to social problems and considering the consequences of social actions.

Upward Bound
Multi-year, multi-component program had positive impacts on teens' educational outcomes.

Varying Maternal Involvement in a Weight Loss Program
Program decreased percentage overweight.

Varying the Timing of an HIV-Prevention Intervention
Program reduced unprotected sex among at-risk adolescents.

Video-Based STD Patient Education
Program increased condom coupon redemption, knowledge and risk perception about STDs/HIV, and positive attitudes about condom use.

Viktoriastift Obesity Training
Program improved eating behaviors and self-efficacy.

Virtual Environment Technology to Prevent Teen Smoking
Program increased realistic perceptions of peer and adult drug use but had no impact on drug use or intent to use drugs

Voluntary Summer Reading Intervention
Program improved reading outcomes for black students, students with less than 100 books, and students with less than 50 books.

Washington State Client-Centered Pregnancy Prevention Programs
Program decreased likelihood of teens having and intending to have intercourse.

West Philadelphia Tutoring Project
Program had no impact on reading or math scores, school attendance, or perception of ability.

Western Australian Schools Physical Activity and Nutrition (WASPAN)
School-based program increased physical fitness levels, but did not impact BMI.

What Could You Do?
Program initially decreased likelihood of engaging in sexual intercourse.

Who Do You Tell
Program increased participants knowledge of appropriate and inappropriate touch.

WIC Nutrition Education Demonstration Study
Program did not increase knowledge of nutrition; program participants had higher test scores than control group participants.

Woodrock Youth Development Project (WYDP)
Multi-component program positively impacted substance use, race relations, and other outcomes in at-risk children and teens.

Yoga for Treatment of Eating Disorders
Program reduced eating disorder symptoms.

The Youth AIDS Prevention Project (YAPP)
School-based program increased likelihood contraceptive use among students initiating intercourse while YAPP was ongoing.

"You Can't Say You Can't Play"
Program increased social acceptance among children.

Youth Corps
Paid service-work program positively impacted several young adult outcomes.