Evidence Based Prevention Strategies

CIRLI seeks to encourage student resilience and healthy decision making.  Current research identifies five prevention strategies that are most likely to have a positive impact on students. 

In developing prevention curricula, it is critically important to incorporate one or more of the following five evidence-based strategies.
  1. Engaging students in community prevention (e.g. participation in anti-drug, anti-smoking or anti-violence coalitions at the national, local and school-wide levels.)
  2. Promoting pro-social norms (e.g. in language arts and social science classes reading, writing and role-playing pro-social responses to problems behavior like substance abuse and bullying).
  3. Correcting misperceptions of norms (correcting widespread exaggerations of substance use and violence by peers)
  4. Increasing perceptions of personal risk (learning the personal risks -of use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs- from group and individual violence and from at risk sexual practices).
  5. Developing or enhancing life skills (strengthening decision making skills and refusal skills).
For more detailed discussion of each of these 5 evidence-based prevention strategies see the Prevention Strategies section of this website.
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