Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development

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Issue No. 28 – Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development Issue No. 28 Welcome to the Blueprints Bulletin March 2024 Announcement Since 1996, Blueprints has carefully reviewed the evidence for over 3,000 studies evaluating 1,600 interventions and thus serves as an excellent, internationally recognized resource on the youth programs that have been shown to....

Eager to learn more about a blueprint for systematically delivering effective preventive interventions that promote healthy outcomes in our youth? Check out this recording of a virtual briefing hosted last month by the National Prevention Science Coalition. As part of the briefing, Blueprints PI Dr. Pamela Buckley discussed how Blueprints fits into the delivery of evidence-based preventive interventions (EBPIs) and provided examples of partnerships formed to increase scale-up of EBPIs listed on the Blueprints website.

Building Sustainable Infrastructure to Implement Programs that Promote Healthy Development During this briefing NPSC convened experts on state-level systems to deliver youth-focused prevention programs. They presented specific actionable steps for building/sustaining an infrastructure for delivering effective preventive interventions. Funding needs and strategies to support the infrastruc...

April is National Alcohol Awareness Month and we are highlighting SPORT Prevention Plus Wellness, a health promotion program certified as Promising by Blueprints. The program highlights the positive image benefits of an active lifestyle to reduce the use of alcohol, to***co, and illicit drugs by high school students.

Blueprints Programs – Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development A health promotion program that highlights the positive image benefits of an active lifestyle to reduce the use of alcohol, to***co and drug use by high school students in addition to improving their overall physical health.

Blueprints PI Dr. Pamela Buckley has recently presented twice on Blueprints to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), a congressionally chartered organization that serves as the collective scientific national academy of the United States. Dr. Buckley presented at a January 25th NASEM meeting, convened by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to develop a blueprint for a national prevention infrastructure for behavioral health disorders. Last November, she also served as an invited panelist at the NASEM's Committee on Law and Justice public seminar focused on evidence translation efforts. View the meeting, including Dr. Buckley's talk, here:

Blueprint for a National Prevention Infrastructure for Behavioral Health Disorders Meeting 1 Part 2 | National Academies Learn more from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Check out this article recently published by Aspen Public Radio that discusses new drug prevention strategies being considered by the Roaring Fork School District in Colorado. Blueprints is mentioned as a resource for identifying scientifically-backed interventions that promote healthy habits.

Roaring Fork schools consider new drug prevention strategies, experts weigh in Roaring Fork School District hosted a series of community forums in January to discuss potential substance use prevention strategies with families. Some ideas drew skepticism from youth development and harm reduction experts.

EFFEKT is an alcohol prevention program that we are calling attention to in celebration of National Alcohol Awareness Month. Certified as Promising by Blueprints, the program uses parent training to reduce teenage alcohol use.

Blueprints Programs – Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development EFFEKT (formerly the Örebro Prevention Program) seeks to reduce teenage alcohol use by changing the attitudes of their parents. Parents are encouraged to communicate zero-tolerance policies about alcohol use to their children. Information is disseminated to the parents at school meetings at the beg...

Check out this article published earlier this year by the Lund Report that explains how states like Washington and Pennsylvania are working with scientists to help schools implement science-backed prevention programs. The article mentions Cooperative Learning, a Blueprints Promising school-based intervention designed to provide youth with positive peer relationships that can promote positive behaviors, prevent bullying and victimization, and reduce emotional problems and risky behaviors such as alcohol use.

Other states drive youth prevention in ways Oregon does not | The Lund Report States like Washington and Pennsylvania work with scientists to help schools put in place science-backed prevention programs

Meet our newest Promising program! Power Through Choices is a sexual health curriculum that aims to improve knowledge and psychosocial outcomes regarding HIV and STIs and thereby reduce rates of sexual activity, STIs, and pregnancy among youth residing in group homes.

Blueprints Programs – Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development A sexual health curriculum that aims to improve knowledge and psychosocial outcomes regarding HIV and STIs and thereby reduce rates of sexual activity, STIs, and pregnancy among youth residing in group homes.

Featured in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month, EAAA (Enhanced Assess, Acknowledge, Act) Sexual Assault Resistance Education is a Blueprints Promising four-unit program to help first-year college women resist acquaintance sexual assault by providing them with information and resistance training.

Blueprints Programs – Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development A four-unit program to help first-year college women (ages 17-24) resist acquaintance sexual assault by providing them with information and resistance training.

April is National Alcohol Awareness Month and we are highlighting Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (BASICS), a Blueprints Model+ brief motivational intervention for high-risk college students that uses alcohol screening and feedback to reduce problem, excessive, and binge drinking by enhancing motivation to change, promoting healthier choices, reviewing myths and facts about alcohol, and teaching coping skills to moderate drinking.

Blueprints Programs – Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development A brief motivational intervention for high-risk college students that uses alcohol screening and feedback to reduce problem, excessive, and binge drinking by enhancing motivation to change, promoting healthier choices, reviewing myths and facts about alcohol, and teaching coping skills to moderate d...

This new investigative series from the Lund Report, University of Oregon's Catalyst Journalism Project, and Oregon Public Broadcasting revealed that drug prevention messaging in Oregon schools varies widely, and that many school districts don't use programs backed by evidence. Though not mentioned by name, Blueprints served as a source for this series, and the Lund Report cited clearinghouses as an important source for finding evidence-based drug prevention programs. Click here to listen to the discussion:

Drug prevention messaging at Oregon schools varies widely, investigative series reveals A new investigative series reveals that drug prevention messaging in Oregon schools varies widely, with many districts using programs that aren't backed by evidence they work in reducing or delaying substance use.

The Nuffield Early Language Intervention was offered to all state primary schools in England as part of a COVID recovery scheme to boost children's language development. Nuffield Early Language Intervention is a Blueprints Promising school-based program designed to improve children's vocabulary, narrative skills, active listening, and confidence in independent speaking. Read more here:

Covid recovery scheme boosts children’s language development ‘by four months’ The Nuffield Early Language Intervention was offered to all state primary schools in England