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| Ranking |
Evidence-Based Practice |
| Description |
Guiding Good Choices (GGC), formerly known as Preparing for the Drug-Free Years, is a multimedia family competency training program that promotes healthy, protective parent-child interactions and reduces risk for early substance use. The program targets families of middle school children (ages 8-14) who reside in rural, economically stressed neighborhoods. The program is based on a social development model, which holds that strong bonding to positive influences reduces problem behaviors. The program is delivered in five weekly sessions designed to strengthen parents' child-rearing techniques, parent-child bonding, and children's peer resistance skills. Children attend one session, which concentrates on peer pressure. The remaining sessions involve only parents and include instruction on identifying risk factors for adolescent substance use, developing effective parenting skills, conflict and anger management, and involving children in positive family activities. |
| Goal / Mission |
The primary goal of GGC is to reduce youth substance abuse and problem behaviors by increasing family involvement that is rewarding and enhances parent-child bonds. |
| Results / Accomplishments |
Two evaluations used random assignment designs with large sample sizes and produced scientifically credible and significant program effects. The 1997 assessment showed significant positive effects on increasing proactive communication between parents and children, decreasing the degree of mothers' negative interaction with their children, and enhanced bonds and expressions of positive feelings (both general interaction and problem-solving).
The 1999 evaluation demonstrated positive effects for intervention parents and children. Compared with members of a control group, GGC parents have shown improvements in child management skills, increases in parent-child affective quality, and higher ratings of mothers' self-efficacy. Compared with members of a control group, GGC children demonstrated significantly less alcohol initiation and positive trends in reducing tobacco and marijuana use. |
| Categories |
Health / Substance Abuse
Health / Teen & Adolescent Health
Social Environment / Children's Social Environment
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| Organization(s) |
Channing Bete Company |
| Source |
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's Model Programs Guide (MPG) |
| Date of Publication |
2000 |
| Date of Implementation |
1987 |
| Geographic Type |
Rural |
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| Primary Contact |
Channing Bete Company
One Community Place
South Deerfield, MA 01373-0200
(877) 896-8532
PrevSci@channing-bete.com
http://www.preventionscience.com
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| For more details |
http://www.channing-bete.com/prevention-program...
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| Target Audience |
Teens, Families |
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