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Great strides have been made in identifying effective programs, strategies, and principles that focus on preventing and reducing substance abuse and related risky behaviors. Using multiple strategies in multiple settings and working toward a few common goals offers the best chance to prevent young people from using alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.
Model
Programs are defined as well-implemented, well-evaluated programs. The programs evaluated and rigorously reviewed by the original National Registry of Effective Programs (NREP) were identified and promoted utilizing the principles listed below.
Developers, whose programs have the capacity to become Model Programs, have
coordinated and agreed with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA) to provide quality materials, training, and technical
assistance for nationwide implementation. Model Programs score at least 4.0
on a 5-point scale on Integrity and Utility, based on the NREP review process.
More recently, SAMHSA redesigned their approach to evaluating programs and began focusing on individual outcomes rather than overall ratings of a program. The result is the new National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP) which provides a much broader look at programs that may provide you with excellent tools for your community to address its mental health and substance abuse problems. Find out more about NREPP in the next section.
Following are the original areas and key principles that went into evaluating a program for consideration by NREP in determining whether or not a program could be identified as Model Programs, Best Practices, or Promising Approaches.
Key Principles:
Model Programs: are prevention programs that have been rigorously evaluated and have repeated demonstrations of positive outcomes.
Best Practices: are strategies, activities, or approaches that have been shown through research and evaluation to be effective in the prevention and/or delay of substance abuse.
Promising Approaches: are programs for which the level of certainty from available evidence is too low to support generalized conclusions, but for which there is some basis for predicting that future research could support such conclusions.
[Model Programs Main Page]
[More on NREPP]
[Components of a Model Program]
[Selecting a Model Program]
[Model Programs Matrix]
[Effective and Promising Programs]
[Additional Model Program Resources]
