The Center for Communities That Care provides support for additional tested interventions. For more detailed information about any of these programs contact us.
Raising Healthy Children
Raising Healthy Children (RHC) is a comprehensive, school-based preventive intervention that promotes positive youth development. The program covers children from kindergarten through high school with developmentally and age-appropriate material at different stages with primary goals of increasing school commitment, academic performance, and social competency, and reducing antisocial behavior. The program includes teacher workshops, parent training, and student interventions to address identified needs.
Families Facing the Future
The Families Facing the Future program was developed to address the needs of families when parents are addicted to drugs or alcohol. The curriculum has been field tested at two methadone clinics in Seattle with funding from a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Home-based services accompany the delivery of this curriculum. A home-based service delivery manual is available.
Families Facing the Future parent sessions consist of one five-hour family retreat and 32 hour-and-a-half parent training workshops conducted twice a week over a 16-week period. Children attend 12 of these sessions to practice skills with their parents.
Connecting
The Connecting program is a self-directed, family-focused, substance abuse and risky sexual behavior prevention program for foster teens and their caregivers. Connecting is an adaptation for use in the child welfare system of Staying Connected with Your Teen (SCT), a family-based, self-directed prevention program that has shown long-term (2-year) effects in reducing initiation into drug use and sexual activity, and has reduced the frequency of violent behaviors, especially among low-income African American teens. In 2019 an additional module focusing on sexual orientation and gender identity and expression was added.
Staying Connected with Your Teen
Staying Connected with Your Teen (SCT) is s a seven-session universal prevention program that addresses substance abuse and problem behavior in middle-schoolers. SCT consists of either five 2-hour sessions (when used in a workshop setting) or seven discussion units (when used as a self-paced home-study program). The program has video and workbook components.