Create an account with The Pennsylvania State University Prevention Learning Portal and earn completion certificates for several prevention topics. This course introduces the concept of School Connectedness and its powerful influence on school climate, student well-being, and academic success. Learners will explore how fostering a sense of belonging and connection within schools can lead to improved health and learning outcomes. The course offers practical strategies, examples, and resources to help educators strengthen school connectedness in both classroom and schoolwide settings.
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Building Effective Peer Mentoring Programs in Schools
Cross-age peer mentoring programs are an increasingly popular choice for educators and youth development professionals hoping to create positive outcomes for youth. This guide will assist you in your recruitment, training, and activities involving peer mentoring programs.
Adapting Evidence-Based Programs: A Guide
This document presents scenario-based guidance on adapting evidence-based programs to better meet community or population needs while preserving essential core components. It clarifies which adaptations are appropriate, which require caution, and when consultation with program developers is recommended to maintain fidelity to the original model.
Adapting Evidence-based Programs: Maintaining Fidelity and Effectiveness
Create an account with The Pennsylvania State University Prevention Learning Portal and earn completion certificates for several prevention topics. The purpose of this course is to provide learners with a comprehensive understanding of the considerations for adapting evidence-based programs. Learning objectives include: (1) Understand the concept of adaptation; (2) Identify core components of evidence-based programs; (3) Recognize reasons for adaptation; (4) Distinguish acceptable, cautionary, and unacceptable adaptations; (5) Plan and implement adaptations; and (6) Monitor adaptations and program implementation.
The Meaning of “Evidence-Based” Programs
This handout outlines criteria for what it means to say a program is ‘evidence-based’ and where programs then fall along a ‘continuum of confidence’.
The Peer Review Process
This video explains the peer review process for prevention programs, which is a quality control process that involves careful review of scholarly and academic work. Experts with knowledge and experience in the same field as the prevention program that is being reviewed will scrutinize the research, ideas, methods, and outcomes of the program to ensure that the research has occurred according to professional standards. These experts also ensure that the program outcomes may be reproduced in other similar contexts and conditions. Then, a publication is produced with the findings which is also referred to as a scholarly publication. To learn more about the Peer Review Process, please view the YouTube video.
Demonstrating Program Impact: Understanding the Role of Short-Term Outcomes
Create an account with The Pennsylvania State University Prevention Learning Portal and earn completion certificates for several prevention topics. This course builds knowledge and skills for defining, measuring, and clearly communicating short-term outcomes for prevention programs. It covers how to distinguish short-term outcome measures from process measures, develop plans for collecting and reporting outcome data, and use outcome information to demonstrate program success and impact.
From Plan to Practice: Feasibility, Process, and Outcome Evaluation
Create an account with The Pennsylvania State University Prevention Learning Portal and earn completion certificates for several prevention topics. This course is about evaluation, and is designed to help professionals confidently navigate the tools, decisions, and processes needed to collect and use data in meaningful ways. You’ll explore why evaluation matters and build a clear understanding of feasibility, process, and outcome evaluation. Along the way, you’ll learn how to select the right evaluation approach for your program and put it into practice to strengthen your efforts. Whether you’re new to data collection or bring years of experience, this course offers practical guidance and foundational strategies you can use right away.
Essentials of Evidence-Based Programs: A Primer for Beginners
Create an account with The Pennsylvania State University Prevention Learning Portal and earn completion certificates for several prevention topics. The purpose of this course is to define what is meant by an Evidence-based Program (EBP) and share the science behind what EBPs all have in common.
Program Budgeting
The Prevention Learning Portal offers an eLearning course that helps you get ready to start a new prevention program. The course provides a Program Budget Template that you can use to calculate the program’s total estimated costs, actual costs, and the difference between the two. The Program Budget Template is available to you here in the PLP eLibrary as a downloadable Excel tool. You are encouraged to also take the Program Readiness eCourse to help you in your additional efforts to launch your new program.