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| Ranking |
Evidence-Based Practice |
| Description |
Too Good For Drugs (TGFD) is a 10-lesson substance abuse prevention curriculum used in kindergarten through eighth grade. The program provides education in social and emotional competencies and reduces risk factors while building protective factors that affect students in that particular age group. Instructional strategies include role-plays, modeling, practicing, reinforcing, providing feedback, and promoting the generalization of skills to other contexts, all of which promote cooperative learning and skill building. TGFD provides normative education, teacher tips, and a parent component in order to make both the school and family environments more supportive of drug-free choices. |
| Goal / Mission |
This program is designed to reduce students' intention to use alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drugs. |
| Results / Accomplishments |
The program was evaluated using a randomized cluster experimental design. Participation in TGFD resulted in a 33 percent reduction in smoking initiation or intentions relative to the students in the control group at postintervention. Student drinking initiation or intentions were reduced by 38 percent for the intervention group relative to the control group postintervention, and after 20 weeks only 18 percent of the intervention group versus 21 percent of the control group were likely to use alcohol. Twenty-five percent fewer students in the treatment group indicated potential or actual marijuana use, though this was not statistically significant.
Additionally, in comparison with the control group, those students who received the intervention had significantly more positive posttest scores on the following areas: skills to resist peer pressure, attitudes towards drug use, awareness of peer norms and use, peers being less accepting of substance use, and friendships formed with other young people less likely to engage in substance use. At the 20-week follow-up, there were significant differences between the two groups, with the intervention group having more resistance skills, awareness of peer drug norms, peer disapproval of substance use, and personal locus of control. |
| Categories |
Health / Substance Abuse
Health / Teen & Adolescent Health
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| Organization(s) |
The Mendez Foundation |
| Source |
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's Model Programs Guide (MPG) |
| Date of Publication |
2003 |
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| Primary Contact |
Regina Birrenkott
The Mendez Foundation
601 South Magnolia Avenue
Tampa, FL 33606
(800) 750-0986
rbirrenk@mendezfoundation.org
http://www.mendezfoundation.org/
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| For more details |
http://www.ojjdp.gov/mpg/mpgSearch.aspx
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| Target Audience |
Teens |
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