The National Cross-Site Evaluation of High-Risk Youth Programs: Understanding Risk, Protection, and Substance Use among High-Risk Youth. Monograph Series

This document summarizes findings from the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention's National Cross-Site Evaluation of High-Risk Youth Programs, which identified characteristics associated with strong substance abuse prevention outcomes in 48 prevention programs. Major findings include: as youth...

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Main Authors Springer, J. Fred, Sambrano, Soledad, Sale, Elizabeth, Kasim, Rafa, Hermann, Jack
Format Report
LanguageEnglish
Published National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information 01.01.2002
Subjects
Adolescents
At Risk Persons
Children
Community Involvement
Family Influence
Peer Influence
Program Effectiveness
Resistance to Temptation
Sex Differences
Substance Abuse
Youth Programs
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Summary:This document summarizes findings from the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention's National Cross-Site Evaluation of High-Risk Youth Programs, which identified characteristics associated with strong substance abuse prevention outcomes in 48 prevention programs. Major findings include: as youth age, levels of risk and protection shift considerably, with a steady movement from the protective to the risk conditions in most external and internal factors; gender plays an important role in risk, protection, and substance use (e.g., neighborhood conditions have a greater influence on substance abuse among males than females); connectedness protects against substance use (connectedness to family and school form the core of this protection); the peer environment is critically linked to substance use (youth whose peers do not use substance or whose peers disapprove of substance use report less use themselves); and broadening the range of protective influences in the external environments increases protection against substance use. (Contains 24 references and 15 figures.) (SM)