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Criteria for Inclusion

This database contains information on evidence-based programs recommended by research-oriented government agencies, non-profit agencies, and independent publications. These entities have evaluated evidence supporting each program’s claims of effectiveness, and have then made recommendations for (or against) the use of the program based on their findings.

These reviewed entities include:

• The Surgeon General’s Report on Youth Violence
  

• Blueprints for Violence Prevention at the University of Colorado, Boulder
  

• Positive Youth Development: Research Findings on Evaluations of Positive Youth Development Programs, commissioned by the US Department of Health and Human Services
  

• Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn’t, What’s Promising, commissioned by the National Institute of Justice
  

• Safe and Drug-Free Schools, part of the US Department of Education
  

• The Center for Disease Control’s Compendium of HIV Prevention Interventions

• National Dropout Prevention Center Network’s List of Effective Practices
  

• The National Registry of Effective Practices Comparison Matrix of Science-Based Prevention Programs

• Iowa Substance Abuse Information Center (ISAIC)

• Office of National Drug Control Policy

• Promising Practices Network

• Society for Prevention Research

  
  

If you have any questions or concerns please contact either
Andrew Partsch or Charles Partridge at the Center for Learning Excellence.