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The Process of Creating a Supported Implementation System to Support Social-Emotional Learning and Prevent Youth Violence through School-Community Partnerships
Lianne Lee, Deinera Exner-Cortens, Lana Wells
While the implementation of evidence-based programs within classrooms is an important piece of school-based prevention, creating healthy communities requires a more comprehensive approach: as...
Intersections between Perceptions of Evidence-Based Programming, School Climate and Implementation Quality
Deinera Exner-Cortens, Vanja Spiric, Maisha Syeda
Promoting healthy relationships is increasingly recognized as a major prevention strategy for preventing youth violence and promoting youth well-being. In Alberta, Canada, the promotion...
Promotion of Social-Emotional Learning: Building Teacher Capacity through Graduate Programs and Pre-Service Education
Lana Wells, Lianne Lee, Deinera Exner-Cortens, Lynn Corcoran
The promotion of social-emotional learning (SEL) represents a key prevention strategy for youth violence, including bullying and dating violence. As identified by CASEL...
Feasibility and Fit of an Evidence-Based Universal Prevention Program Adapted for Youth Involved in the Justice System
Amanda Kerry, Claire V Crooks
Introduction: Over one-third of Canadian youth have engaged in some form of delinquent behavior by the age of 14 (Savoie, 2006). In the United States, approximately 31 million youth are under juvenile court...
Feasibility of Implementing a Culturally Adapted Parenting Intervention for Karen Refugee Caretakers in the U.S.
Elizabeth A Wieling, Jaime Ballard, Christopher Mehus, Damir Utrzan
Introduction: Increasing numbers of children are fleeing to the United States after exposure to war and conflict. Children exposed to war have high rates of negative...
Implementing the KiVa Bullying Prevention Programme in the UK
Suzy Clarkson, Judy Hutchings
KiVa is a Finnish anti-bullying programme, developed at Turku University. It is based on robust research by the programme developer, Christina Salmivalli, that shows how the responses of bystanders maintain...
Improving Outcomes for Adolescents at High-Risk of Poor Social, Economic and Health Outcomes
Anthony Shakeshaft
Introduction: Adolescents exposed to multiple, co-occurring risk factors experience disproportionately high rates of harm, and Indigenous adolescents are over-represented in this population. Despite this, little is...
Development of a Smartphone App-Based Messaging Intervention to Encourage HIV Self-Testing in Hefei, China
Cui Yang, Ashley Perez, Don Operario, Hongo Zhang, Nickolas Zaller
Introduction: Research in China has found that MSM avoid HIV testing at clinics or public health departments due in part to stigma and fear of disclosure of their MSM...
Piloting a Universal Violence Prevention Programme in Jamaican Grade One Primary Schools
Marsha Bowers, Helen Baker-Henningham, Yakeisha Scott
Introduction: Corporal punishment is a widely used behaviour management strategy in Jamaican schools and exposure to corporal punishment at school is associated with poor child mental...
The Impact of an Indigenous Led, Community-Based Trial to Reduce Alcohol Related Harms in New South Wales, Australia
Mieke Snijder
Introduction: Indigenous people of Australia experience a higher burden of health-related harm compared to non-Aboriginal Australians, which is most starkly evidenced by the Aboriginal life expectancy being an estimated 10...
ہیفی، چین میں زبانی سیال پر مبنی تیز رفتار ایچ آئی وی سیلف ٹیسٹنگ کی قبولیت
ایشلے پیریز, Don Operario, کوئی یانگ, Nikolaas زیلر, Hongo zhang
تعارف: چین میں، مردوں کے ساتھ جنسی تعلقات رکھنے والے مردوں (ایم ایس ایم) طرز عمل سے منسوب ایچ آئی وی کیسز کا تناسب حالیہ برسوں میں تیزی سے بڑھا ہے، اس گروپ میں ایک چوتھائی...
Supportive Parenting Moderates the Effect of Racial Discrimination on Delinquency among Ethiopian-Israeli Youth
Steven M. Kogan, Sophie Walsh, Megan Hicks
The Ethiopian families who are the focus of the present study emigrated from Ethiopia to Israel in the 1980s-1990s. Escaping civil war, famine, and religious persecution, these families have...
Meeting the Challenges of Recruiting and Retaining Families in a Pragmatic Randomised Controlled Trial of the Strengthening Families Programme 10-14 UK
Jeremy Segrott, Jo Holliday, Jonathan Scourfield, David Foxcroft, Simon Murphy
Introduction: Trials of family-based prevention interventions often face challenges in recruitment and retention, leading to methodological issues. However...
Nurturing a Program to Maturity before Taking It to Scale
Joan E. Durrant, Dominique Pierre Plateau
In 2015, the United Nations set out a new sustainable development agenda based on human rights standards. One of its 17 goals is to end all forms of violence against children by 2030. An...
Going to Scale with Parent Training in Norway: What Have We Found and Where Should We Go?
John Kjøbli
To scale up evidence-based interventions for the prevention and treatment of child conduct problems in primary care settings, the program Early Initiatives for Children at Risk (Norwegian acronym; TIBIR) was developed. The...
Lessons Learnt from Scaling-up a Parenting Programme during Its Research Phase
Jenny Doubt
Background: There is an increasing demand for effective ways of preventing and reducing violence in our societies. Children in developing countries experience higher levels of abuse, and less than 12% of abused children...
Putting the Horse before the Cart? Negotiating Tensions Between the Need for Evidence and the Demand for Dissemination of Parenting Programmes to Reduce Violence Against Children in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Jamie Lachman, Jenny Doubt, Heidi Loening-Voysey
Objectives: Parenting programmes have shown promise in preventing violence against children, as well as improving child and parental outcomes. Accordingly, there is an increased demand for...
Families Preparing a New Generation: Adaption of a Parent-Adolescent Substance Use Intervention for Burmese Refugee Families
Craig Nagoshi, Julie L. Nagoshi, Eusebius Small, Flavio F. Marsiglia
Introduction: The overall goal of the proposed research project was to implement an adaptation of the established Families Preparing a New Generation (FPNG) substance...
UNODC-Lcif Case Control Trials of Lionsquest Skills for Adolescence in South East Europe: Research Results and Policy Implications
Wadih E. Maalouf, Milos Stojanovic, Matthew Kiefer, Giovanna Campello, Hanna E. Heikkila, Ziad El Khatib
UNODC has an ongoing global initiative promoting evidence based prevention programmes in line with the UNODC International Standards...
Using Tableau Technology to Share Risk and Protective Factor Data with Local Communities for Prevention Planning
Nicole Eisenberg, John S. Briney, Richard F. Catalano, Kevin P. Haggerty, Ilene Berman, Daniela Castillo, Cynthia Weaver
Introduction: Assessment of risk and protective factors is a key element of science-based approaches to community...
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