@article{ref1,
title="Effects of the Child Development Project on Students' Drug Use and Other Problem Behaviors",
journal="Journal of Primary Prevention",
year="2000",
author="Battistich, Victor and Schaps, Eric and Watson, Marilyn and Solomon, Daniel and Lewis, Catherine",
volume="21",
number="1",
pages="75-99",
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 DevelopmentYouth DevelopmentLate ChildhoodSocial Skills DevelopmentProsocial SkillsElementary School StudentEducation ProgramSchool BasedDrug Use PreventionDelinquency PreventionSubstance Use PreventionChild Substance UseChild DelinquencyPrevention ProgramProgram EvaluationProgram EffectivenessChild BehaviorChild Problem BehaviorBehavior PreventionIntervention ProgramBehavior InterventionDrug Use InterventionSubstance Use InterventionDelinquency Intervention02-02<p />",
language="",
issn="0278-095X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}