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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.
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