For communities and organizations working with youth, this manual offers a straightforward and adaptable plan for building community initiatives and youth programs that get results. Because youth programs and community initiatives are required by their funders to document outcomes, this 10-step process poses different accountability questions. Each step is accompanied with examples from Search Institute and Healthy Communities*Healthy…
BRIGHT is a group cognitive behavioral therapy program for individuals with depression and co-occurring alcohol or drug use problems. It can be delivered by non-mental health practitioners, thus providing treatment to those who often do not receive it.
Building Recovery by Improving Goals, Habits, and Thoughts (BRIGHT-2) is a manualized group cognitive behavioral therapy program for co-occurring depression and alcohol and drug use problems. BRIGHT-2 is an 18-week program consisting of three modules that each focus on a specific topic — thoughts, activities, and people interactions — and how it can affect a person's mood and desire to drink or use drugs. This volume is the…
Building Recovery by Improving Goals, Habits, and Thoughts (BRIGHT-2) is a manualized group cognitive behavioral therapy program for co-occurring depression and alcohol and drug use problems. BRIGHT-2 is an 18-week program consisting of three modules that each focus on a specific topic — thoughts, activities, and people interactions — and how it can affect a person's mood and desire to drink or use drugs. This volume is the…
Building Recovery by Improving Goals, Habits, and Thoughts (BRIGHT) is a manualized group cognitive behavioral therapy program for depression in individuals with co-occurring alcohol and drug use problems. BRIGHT is a 16-week program consisting of four modules that each focus on a specific topic — thoughts, activities, people interactions, and substance abuse — and how it can affect a person's mood. This volume is the group…
The use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs, especially among youth, exacts a high toll in local communities. In 2004, RAND published a manual on the Getting To Outcomes (GTO) process, designed to provide guidance to practitioners as they plan, implement, and evaluate substance abuse prevention programs. This summary of that manual provides step-by-step guidance to those in need of a concise, overview-style approach to GTO.
Alcohol is the primary contributor to adolescent deaths in the United States. Structured according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA’s) Strategic Prevention Framework, a five-step prevention approach, this comprehensive guide to developing, implementing, and evaluating a communitywide plan to prevent underage drinking adopts the Getting To Outcomes model of evaluation, accountability,…
States and the Federal government are investing in expensive performance measurement programs for their substance abuse treatment systems, but it is unclear whether the outcomes data collected in these programs can be validly used to understand program performance.
The authors compare the social benefits of school-based prevention programs' long-run impacts on a diverse set of different substances.
The authors identify the conceptual and methodological issues associated with the analysis of costs and outcomes of early intervention programs and review the prior application of these methods to several programs. The specific recommendations are framed as a set of more general guidelines for decisionmakers to make choices about early childhood intervention programs.
This report contains all the outputs of a project undertaken to review the structure and performance of the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act (SDFSCA) and to assess options for strengthening it.
The authors identify the conceptual and methodological issues associated with the analysis of costs and outcomes of early intervention programs and review the prior application of these methods to several programs. The specific recommendations are framed as a set of more general guidelines for decisionmakers to make choices about early childhood intervention programs.
This report synthesizes the findings of a review of the structure and performance of the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act (SDFSCA) and assesses options for reforming it.
This report presents an overview of the current state of knowledge regarding the effects of cocaine on the developing brain and offers policy considerations for addressing the issues that arise from cocaine use by pregnant women.
In August 2000, RAND convened a meeting of national experts to discuss issues surrounding cost-benefit and related analyses of Starting Early Starting Smart (SESS).
Focuses on school-based drug prevention programs that have proven effective in formal evaluations.
In this study, the authors examined the process by which anti-tobacco laws and ordinances were implemented and enforced in seven states and 19 localities.
Congress directed the military to establish pilot community outreach programs to reduce the demand for illegal drugs among youth. This report examined the potential suitability of the military for such roles.
The authors concluded that reporting errors do not threaten the validity of the treatment effects analysis and that the overwhelming majority of Project ALERT students accurately reported their drug use.
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