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Module 2c Transparency
Characteristics of Effective Prevention Programs
Guiding Lights From Prevention Research
Planning Process
Comprehensiveness
Program Strategies
- Sound Planning
- Common vision
- Assessment of needs and resources
- Goal setting
- Task sequencing
- Responsibilities
- Management
- Evaluation
- Replanning
- Collaboration
- Measurable Goals
- Target Multiples
- Multiple systems
- Whole community
- All youth
- Health Promotion
- Long-Term Duration
- Adequate Quantity
- Integration with Other Activities
- Information and Education
- Life Skills
- Alternatives
- Social Policy
- Training Impactors
- Early Intervention Systems
Source: Benard, B. (1988). An overview of community-based prevention. Center for Substance Abuse Prevention Prevention Research Findings: 1988.