Once your planning team has completed the needs assessment and decided on the focus for the prevention plan, you need to identify interventions and programs that will successfully impact your plan. These interventions have to be a 'good fit between the interventions and your school or community' (Safe, Supportive, and Successful Schools, pp. 121-122).

These online resources will give you a wealth of information.

• Center for the Application of
  Prevention Technologies (CAPT):
  Database of Effective Prevention Programs
  http://www.northeastcapt.org/science/pod/search.asp

• Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice
  http://www.air.org/ceep

• Center for Substance Abuse Prevention:
  Prevention Works!
  http://casat.unr.edu/bestpractices/

• Center for the Study and Prevention of
  Violence's Blueprints
  http://www.colorado.edu/cspv/blueprints/

• Center for Mental Health in Schools
  http://smhp.psych/ucla/edu/

• Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
  http://www.samhsa.gov/centers/csap/csap.html

• Centers for Disease Control National
  Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center
  http://www.safeyouth.org/home.htm

• Centers for Disease Control and
  Prevention,
  National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
  http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/bestpractices.htm

• The Collaborative for Academic, Social,
  and Emotional Learning's (CASEL) Safe and Sound:
  An Educational Leaders Guide to Evidence-Based
  Social and Emotional Learning Programs
  http://www.casel.org/progrevfr.htm

• Hamilton Fish National Institute on School
  and Community Violence
  http://www.hamfish.org/

• Positive Youth Development in the United States:
  Research Findings on Evaluations of Positive Youth Development Programs
  http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/positiveyouthdev99/

• Prevention Research Center for the
  Promotion of Human Development
  http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/
  youthviolence/report.html

• U.S. Department of Education's Safe and
  Drug-Free Schools Program's Model Programs
  http://www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/SDFS/programs.html

Source: Osher, D., Dwyer, K, and Jackson, J. (2004). Safe, Supportive and Successful Schools, Step by Step. Longmont, Colorado: Sopris West Educational Services.