Adolescent Drug Use Prevention: Common Features of Promising Community Programs
PEMD-92-2
Published: Jan 16, 1992. Publicly Released: Feb 24, 1992.
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Highlights
Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO examined the design, implementation, and results of promising, comprehensive, community-based drug use prevention programs for young adolescents.
Recommendations
Matter for Congressional Consideration
| Matter | Status | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| If Congress wishes to learn more about what works in this type of drug abuse prevention program, it should consider providing additional evaluation funds for national, independent, long-term evaluations of the most promising comprehensive, community-based drug abuse prevention programs. | Several pertinent evaluations have been started in executive branch agencies since GAO made this recommendation to Congress. |
Recommendations for Executive Action
| Agency Affected | Recommendation | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Education | The Secretary of Education should complete and disseminate widely the drug prevention program evaluation handbook now being developed. |
The handbook was issued in summer 1993.
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| Department of Health and Human Services | The Secretary of Health and Human Services should complete and disseminate widely the implementation, evaluation-measures, and logic-model manuals now being developed by the Office for Substance Abuse Prevention. |
The Department of Health and Human Services has issued the implementation and evaluation manuals. The Department has not set a firm issue date for the logic-model manual; it was still in preparation in late 1994, but staffing changes have delayed publication until at least fiscal year 1995.
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Community health servicesDisadvantaged personsSubstance abuseSubstance abuse treatmentEducationEducation program evaluationFederal fundsMinoritiesTeenagersDrug abuse prevention