2008 Presentations

PLEASE NOTE: All breakout session presentations are in PDF format.

Monday, March 17, 2008

National Center for School Engagement (NCSE) Preconference Session

• Blueprints Programs That Promote School Engagement
• Family and Community Engagement in Creating Positive School Climates
• Connections To Bad Outcomes & Best Practices

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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Dr. Delbert S. Elliott: The Future of Violence Prevention Research and Practice

Clay Yeager: The Power of Prevention - The Power of One
Video of Clay Yeager's presentation

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Statewide Initiatives Promoting the Use of Evidence-based Prevention

• Colorado Evidence-based Programs
• PCCD's Evidence-Based Prevention Initiative
• The Evolution of Evidenced-Based Prevention in SC

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A Multisystemic Therapy (MST) Overview

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The PATHS Curriculum: Building Resilience through Social and Emotional Learning

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The High/Scope Preschool Model: Five Supporting Studies

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Project Towards No Drug Abuse: Its Theory and the Program

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The Good Behavior Game: A Classroom-Based Behavior Management Strategy

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Preventing Drug Abuse and Violence through LifeSkills Training (LST): Effectiveness and Current Directions

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Moving Science to Practice: Frameworks for Implementing, Sustaining, and Scaling-up Evidence-Based Programs and Practices

• Exercise 1
• Exercise 2

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Multisystemic Therapy (MST) - Advanced Session

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CASASTART: An evidence-based youth development strategy for high-risk children

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The Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP): The Care and Feeding of a Quality Implementation

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Olweus Bullying Prevention Program

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Community Partnerships for Kids At-Risk

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Raising Healthy Children: A Social Development Approach to Prevention

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How to Use Rigorous Evidence about "What Works" to Improve Program Effectiveness: Practical, Cost-Effective Strategies

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Functional Family Therapy (FFT) and Culture: Regional Trends and Variations

• Florida Department of Juvenile Justice: Redirection Project
• Pre-Conference Session 1 - The Renewal of FFT

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Project ALERT: From Research to Practice: Doing Simple Things that Work

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Overview of the Incredible Years Parents, Teachers, and Children's Training

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Guiding Good Choices: Making a Difference in American's Families

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Behavioral Monitoring and Reinforcement Program for Middle School Youth and its Modification for High School Youth

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Olweus Bullying Prevention Advanced Workshop: Questionnaires, Class Meetings, and Parents

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Being Sustainable: What It Takes

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PATHWAYS: Translating Evidence-based Drug and Violence Prevention (STAR and PATHS) to Effective Obesity Prevention

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Building Community Coalitions: Getting Things Done in the Public Sector

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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Steve Aos: Evidence-Based Policy Options To Reduce Prison Construction, Criminal Justice Costs, and Crime

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Mark T. Greenberg: Sustaining Quality Prevention Programming in Communities

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Functional Family Therapy (FFT) with Various Diagnostic Populations and Referral Systems

• FFT - Development In Sweden
• Pennsylvania Functional Family Therapy: A Sustainable Statewide System

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The PROSPER Support System: Integrating Partnership Strategies for Quality Implementation, Sustainability, and Evaluation

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Strong African American Families Program

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The Midwestern Prevention Project (STAR): Adoption, Implementation, Sustainability, and Dissemination in Today's Prevention Climate

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Brief Strategic Family Therapy™ in the Treatment of Problem Behavioral/Drug-Using Youth

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Measuring and Monitoring Fidelity