Getting Results: Developing Safe
and Healthy Kids
This publication documents effective research-based strategies for designing and implementing alcohol, tobacco, and other drug and violence prevention programs for schools.
Learning Support and Academic Achievement
| PPT (1.20MB; 29pp.)
This PowerPoint presentation emphasizes the importance of youth development to preventing high-risk behaviors and to academic achievement of students. It has been used for various audience presentations.
Narconon Drug Abuse Prevention
Program Evaluation
Evaluation of the Narconon Drug Abuse Prevention Program, prepared
for the California Department of Education by the California Healthy
Kids Resource Center, January 2005.
The
Stuart Report (Outside Source)
The Stuart Report, Ensuring That No Child is Left Behind:
How Are Student Health Risk and Resilience Related to the Academic
Progress of Schools is now available. Based on data from
the California
Healthy Kids Survey (Outside Source), this report underscores the importance
youth development strategies in preventing high-risk behaviors among youth.
According to this report, policies and practices that focus exclusively
on raising test scores, while ignoring the comprehensive health
and developmental needs of students, are likely to leave many children behind. A
corresponding PowerPoint
presentation (PPT; Outside source) includes talking points
and background information to enable anyone to make a presentation
on the study results.
