Citation

Battistich V, Schaps E, Watson M, Solomon D, Lewis C. J. Prim. Prev. 2000; 21(1): 75-99.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

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Abstract

The Child Development Project is a comprehensive school reform program that helps elementary schools to become caring communities of learnersóenvironments characterized by supportive interpersonal relationships, shared goals, responsiveness to students' developmental and sociocultural needs, and an emphasis on prosocial values of personal responsibility, concern for others, and fairness, as well as a commitment to learning. The program includes classroom, schoolwide, and family involvement activities that, working synergistically, are expected to foster students' positive development and resilience to risk when confronted with stressful life events and circumstances. Following baseline assessments, the program was introduced in schools from six school districts across the U.S. over a period of three years. Similar schools in these same districts served as a comparison group. Evaluation findings indicated that when the program was implemented widely throughout a school, there were significant reductions in students' use of drugs and involvement in other problem behaviors. (Abstract Adapted from Source: Journal of Primary Prevention, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Springer)

For more information on the Child Development Project, see VioPro record number 3399.

Child Development
Youth Development
Late Childhood
Social Skills Development
Prosocial Skills
Elementary School Student
Education Program
School Based
Drug Use Prevention
Delinquency Prevention
Substance Use Prevention
Child Substance Use
Child Delinquency
Prevention Program
Program Evaluation
Program Effectiveness
Child Behavior
Child Problem Behavior
Behavior Prevention
Intervention Program
Behavior Intervention
Drug Use Intervention
Substance Use Intervention
Delinquency Intervention
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