Background: STAR began as a response to the events of September 11th. Church World Service (CWS) partnered with Eastern Mennonite University’s (EMU) internationally-known Center for Justice and Peace building (CJP) to support religious caregivers in the aftermath. STAR conducted its first five-day seminar at EMU in February of 2002. Objective: The STAR program aims to help […]
Evidence based practices
Behavior Management through Adventure
Background: Behavior Management through Adventure (BMtA) was originally developed and implemented by Project Adventure in the early 1980s to address the needs of at-risk youth in Georgia. Since that time, the program has been implemented by more than 20 schools, agencies, and programs with more than 5,000 youth in Georgia, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. […]
Building Youth Resiliency through Peer Assistance and Leadership
Background: PAL began in 1980, combining peer assistance and peer leadership strategies originally developed in the late 1970s. Over the past 15 years, these basic prevention strategies have been expanded, evolving the peer helping program from an informal, extracurricular activity in a single school district to a formally structured, curriculum-based program that has been adopted by […]
Shield of Care: A System-Focused Approach to Protecting Juvenile Justice Youth from Suicide
Developed by the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (TDMHSAS) and partners, Shield of Care is an 8-hour, evidence-informed curriculum that teaches juvenile justice staff strategies to prevent suicide in their correctional facility environment. The Shield of Care suicide prevention model (S-Plan) is unique because it is tailored to the juvenile justice […]
Primary Care Behavioral Health Consultation Reduces Depression Levels Among Mood Disordered Patients
History of intervention: Kirk Strosahl, PhD developed a primary care behavioral health consultative model of care with solid and grounded integrative care research. Issues addressed: An organized approach to intervening utilizing a multi-disciplinary approach—medical providers (PCP), nursing support staff, behavioral health consultants (BHC), health educators, pharmacy, and dental services. The area of focus is the relationship […]
Parenting Through Change
Objective: To prevent internalizing and externalizing conduct behaviors and associated problems; and promote of healthy child adjustment Description: Based on the Parent Management Training–Oregon Model (PMTO), Parenting Through Change (PTC) is a theory-based intervention that provides recently separated single mothers with 14 weekly group sessions to learn effective parenting practices including skill encouragement, limit-setting, problem-solving, […]