Approved Science-Based SDFSCA Programs
- PLEASE NOTE: The following list provides you with the latest information on programs that meet the requirements for funding through the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act program. These programs meet the requirement of being supported by science-based research and will be approved.
- If you want to learn more about each one, use the additional links we have provided for you:
- If you do not find a listing on the pages, try a “GOOGLE” search: go
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and enter the name of the program you are interested in, using quotation marks around it. You will get a listing of probable web sites that relate to the program you have identified.
Science Based Programs
15+ Make Time to Listen, Take Time to Talk
Aban Aya Youth Project
Across Ages
Acute Group Treatment for Adolescent Depression
Adolescent Alcohol Prevention Trial
Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach
Adolescent Coping with Depression
Adolescent Diversion Project
Adolescent Portable Therapy
Adolescent Sibling Pregnancy Prevention Program
Adolescent Transitions Program
Advocacy Intervention to Reduce Smoking Among Teenagers
Aggression Replacement Training
Aggressors, Victims, & Bystanders: Thinking & Acting
Albuquerque Victim-Offender Mediation Program
Alcohol Misuse Prevention
All Stars
Al's Pals: Kids Making Healthy Choices
American Indian Life Skills
Americans All
Anger Coping Program
Asian Youth Alliance
Athletes Targeting Healthy Exercise & Nutrition Alternatives
Athletes Training & Learning to Avoid Steroids
Baby Safe (Substance Abuse Free Environment) Hawaii
Baltimore Choice Program
Be a Star
Be Proud! Be Responsible
Behavioral Monitoring & Reinforcement
Bethesda Treatment Center
Bethlehem Police Family Group Conferencing Project
Bicultural Competence Skills Approach
Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America
Bilingual/Bicultural Counseling & Support Services
Border Binge-Drinking Reduction Program
Boys & Girls Club Gang: Prevention Through Targeted Outreach
Boys & Girls Club: Project Learn
BrainPower
BrainWise
Brief Alcohol Screening & Intervention for College Students
Brief Strategic Family Therapy
Broader Urban Involvement & Leadership Development Program (BUILD)
Bry's Behavioral Monitoring & Reinforcement Program
Build Respect, Stop Bullying
Building Blocks for a Healthy Future
Building Decision Skills
Bullying Prevention Program
California Smokers Helpline
Canberra Reintegrative Shaming Experiments
CARE (Care,Assess,Respond,Empower)
Career Academy
Caring School Community Program
Carolina Abecedarian Project
CASASTART
CAST (Coping & Support Training)
Celebrating Families
Challenging College Alcohol Abuse
Child Development Project
Childhaven
Child-Parent Centers
Children in the Middle
Children of Divorce Intervention Program
Children's Aid Society-Carrera Project
Class Action
Classroom Centered & Family School Partnership Intervention
Clayton County Restitution Program
Club Hero
Cognitive Behavioral Coping Skills Therapy for Adolescent Substance Abuse
Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in School
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adolescent Depression
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Child & Adolescent Traumatic Stress
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Child Sexual Abuse
Cognitive Relaxation Coping Skills
Colorado Youth Leadership Project
Comer School Development Program
Commit to Quit
Communities in Schools
Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol
Communities That Care
Community of Caring
Community Policing Strategies
Community Trials Intervention to Reduce High Risk Drinking
Comprehensive Gang Strategy
Comprehensive Health for the Middle Grades
Conflict Resolution Curriculum
Connect with Kids
Consistency Management & Cooperative Discipline
CoolSpot
Coordination of Services
Coping Cat
Coping Power
Coping with Work & Family Stress
Creating a Peaceful School Learning Environment
Creating Lasting Family Connections
CSF Buxmont Academy
Dando Fuerza a La Familia
Dare to be You
Delaware Juvenile Drug Court Diversion Program
Detention Diversion Advocacy Project
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Program
Discover: Skills for Life
Dona Ana County Teen Court
Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D. A. R. E.)
Drugs & Alcohol Curriculum Module
Earlscourt Social Skills Program
Early Head Start
Early Risers Skills for Success
East Texas Experiential Learning Center
Effective Black Parenting
Efficacy Curriculum
Emergency Room Intervention for Adolescent Females
Enough Snuff
Esteem Builders
Extended-Service Schools Initiative
Facing History & Ourselves
Faith-Based Prevention
Families & Schools Together
Families in Action
Families That Care: Guiding Good Choices
Family Behavior Therapy
Family Development Research Project
Family Effectiveness Training
Family Health Promotion
Family Matters
Family Preservation Services Program
FAN (Family Advocacy Network) Club
Fast Track
First Step to Success
Focus on Families
Foundations of Democracy
Fresno County Repeat Offender Prevention Program
Friendly PEERsuasion
Functional Family Therapy (Ex Washington)
Functional Family Therapy (In Washington)
Gang Resistance Education & Training (GREAT)
Gang Resistance is Paramount
Get Real About AIDS
Get Real About Tobacco
Get Real About Violence
Girl Power
Girls & Boy's Town
Girl's Circle
Good Behavior Game
Great Body Shop
Growing Healthy
Growing Up Well
Head On
Heads Up
Health Skills for Life
Healthy Families America
Healthy Workplace
Heartwood: Ethics Curriculum for Children
Helping the Non-Compliant Child
Here's Looking @You 2000
High/Scope Perry Preschool Program
Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters
Home-Based Behavioral Systems Family Therapy
Homebuilders
Houston Parent-Child Development Program
Humboldt County Repeat Offender Prevention Program
I Can Problem Solve
I'm Special
Impact of Drinking Age Law
Improving Social Awareness
Incredible Years
Independence Youth Court
Indianapolis Restorative Justice Project
Infant Health & Development Program
Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depressed Adolescents
Jefferson County Juvenile Gun Court
Job Corps
Jobs for America's Graduates
Just Communities
Juvenile Boot Camps
Kansas City Gun Experiment
Keep a Clear Mind
Keepin' it Real
Kent County Teen Court
Kentucky Adolescent Tobacco Prevention Project
Kids Intervention with Kids in School
Know Your Body
Lake County Restitution Program
LA's Best
Leadership & Resiliency Program
Learn & Serve America
Learning About Alcohol & Other Drugs
Learning for Life
Legal Blood Alcohol Level
Lessons in Character
Let Each One Teach One
Life Skills Program (Basic Living Skills)
LifeSkills Training
LifeSkills Training Booster Program
Linking the Interests of Families & Teachers
Lions-Quest Skills for Adolescence
Lions-Quest Working Toward Peace
Lucas County Intensive Supervision Unit
Maine Juvenile Drug Treatment Court
Mass Media Smoking Prevention
Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program
Mediation in the Schools
Me-Me Drug & Alcohol Prevention Program
Metropolitan Area Child Study
Michigan Model for Health
Michigan State Diversion Project
Midwestern Prevention Project
Mind Over Matter
Minimal Intervention Approach to Problem Gambling
Minneapolis Center for Victim-Offender Mediation
Minnesota Smoking Prevention Program
Montreal Longitudinal Experimental Study
Moral Dilemma Discussion
Moral Reconation Therapy
Movimiento Ascendencia
Multidimensional Family Therapy
Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care
Multi-Model Substance Abuse Prevention
Multi-Systemic Therapy for Juvenile Offenders
National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship
Native American Prevention Project Against AIDS/Substance Abuse
New Beginnings Program
No Putdowns
North Karelia
Not In My House
Not On Tobacco
Nurse-Family Partnership
Nurturing Parenting Programs
Nurturing Program for Families in Substance Abuse Treatment & Recovery
Oakland Beat Health Program
Oakland Victim-Offender Reconciliation Program
Olweus Bullying Prevention
Open Circle Curriculum
Operation Ceasefire
Operation Save Kids
Orange County Juvenile Substance Abuse Treatment Court
OSLC Treatment Foster Care
Our Whole Lives
Overcoming Obstacles
PACE Center for Girls
Parent-Child Assistance Program
Parent-Child Home Program
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy
Parenting Through Change
Parenting Wisely
Parenting with Love & Limits
Parents Anonymous
Parents Under Construction
Partnership for Health
Passport Program
Pathways to Change
Pathways to Health
PBIS
PeaceBuilders
Peaceful Conflict Resolution & Violence Prevention Curriculum
Peaceful Schools Project
Peacemakers
PeaceWorks
Peer Assistance & Leadership
Peer Coping Skills Training
Peers Making Peace
Pennsylvania School-Based Probation Program
Perinatal Care Program
Perth Amboy Community Partnership for Youth
Phoenix Academy
Plan a Safe Strategy Program
Police Athletic League
Positive Action
Positive Action Through Holistic Education (PATHE)
Positive Adolescent Choices Training
Positive Youth Development Program
Postponing Sexual Involvement Program
Preventing School Vandalism
Prevention Dimensions Program
Prevention Intervention
Preventive Treatment Program
Preventive Alcohol Education Program
Primary Project
Prime Time: Comprehensive Drug Education Program
Proactive Classroom Management
Productive Conflict Resolution Program
Program Development & Evaluation
Programs for Teen Parents
Project 12 Ways
Project ACHIEVE
Project Adventure
Project ALERT
Project Alert Plus
Project Back-on-Track
Project BASIS
Project Breakaway
Project CARE
Project Charlie
Project Confirm
Project CRAFT (Community Restitution & Apprenticeship Focused Training)
Project Essential
Project EX
Project Link
Project Northland
Project OZ
Project PACE
Project RAISE
Project SEEK
Project STAR/Midwestern Prevention Program
Project SUCCESS
Project Taking Charge
Project Towards No Drug Abuse
Project Towards No Tobacco Use
Project TRUST
Project Venture
Prolonged Exposure Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorders
Promoting Academic Retention for Indian Tribal Youth
Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies (PATHS)
Protecting You/Protecting Me
Quantum Opportunity Program
Raising A Thinking Child: I Can Problem Solve for Families
Raising Healthy Children
Reach for Health
Reach Out Now Teach In
Reach out to Schools
Reaffirming Young Sister's Excellence
Reconnecting Youth
Reducing the Risk
Repeat Offender Prevention Program
Residential Student Assistance Program
Resolving Conflict Creatively Program
Responding in Peaceful & Positive Ways
Responsive Classroom
Right Decisions, Right Now: Be Tobacco Free
Roots of Empathy
ROPE Challenge Course
Rural Educational Achievement Project (REAP)
Safe Child Program
Safe Dates
SAFEChildren: Schools & Families Educating Children
SAFE-T (Sexual Abuse, Family Education & Treatment)
San Diego County Repeat Offender Prevention Program
Sarasota County Teen Court
Saving Lives
Say it Straight
SCARE Program
Scared Straight
School Crime Prevention thru Environmental Design
School Safety Program
School Transitional Environmental Program (STEP)
School Violence Prevention Demonstration Program
Schools: Teen Pregnancy Prevention
Seattle Social Development Program
Second Step
Self Center (School-Linked Reproductive Health Services)
Sembrando Salud
Signs of Suicide
Sisters
SMART (Students Managing Anger & Resolution Together) Team
SMART Leaders
Smoking Cessation Mass Media Intervention
SNAP/Under 12 Outreach Program
Social Competence Promotion Program for Young Adolescents
Social Decision Making & Problem Solving
Social Relations Program
Social-moral Reasoning Development Program
Spectrum Wilderness Program
Spit Tobacco Intervention
Start Taking Alcohol Risks Seriously (STARS)
Starting Early Starting Smart
State-wide Indian Drug Prevention Program
Staying Connected with Your Teen
Steps to Respect
Stop Underage Drinking
Stopping Teenage Addition to Tobacco
Storytelling for Empowerment
Strengthening Bonds of Chicano Youth & Families
Strengthening Families Program
Strengthening Families Program for Parents & Youth 10-14
Strengthening Hawaii Families
Strengthening Multi-Ethnic Families & Communities: A Violence Prevention Program
Strong African-American Families Program
Structural Family Therapy
Structured Playground Activities
Students Helping Others Understand Tobacco
Success in Stages:Build Respect, Stop Bullying
Success Thru Accepting Responsibility
Sunshine Project
Support for At-Risk Children
Syracuse Family Development Research Program
Systems of Care/Wraparound Programs
Teaching Students to be Peacemakers
Team Awareness
Teams-Games-Tournaments Alcohol Prevention
Teen Intervene
Teen Outreach Program
Teen Talk
Teenage Health Teaching Modules
TeenScreen
Think First
Think Time Strategy
Thinking, Feeling, Behaving
Tinkham Alternative High School
Tobacco Policy & Prevention
Too Good for Drugs
Too Good for Violence
Too Smart to Start
Towards No Drug Abuse
Towards No Tobacco Use
Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy
Tri-Agency Resource Gang Enforcement Team
Tribes TLC
Urban Improv
Urban Women Against Substance Abuse
Victims Offender Mediation
Violence Prevention Curriculum for Adolescents
Vision Quest
Washington (DC) Community Violence Prevention Program
Washington, D.C. Restitution Program
Who Do You Tell
Wisdom for Life
WiseSkills
Woodrock Youth Development Program
Wraparound Milwaukee