Social-Competence Promotion Program for Young Adolescents (SCPP-YA)

Grades: 5th - 7th

Contact: Roger P. Weissberg
Professor of Psychology and Education
Department of Psychology
The University of Illinois at Chicago
1007 West Harrison Street Chicago, IL 60607-7137
Phone: 312/413-1012
Fax: 312/355-0559
E-mail: rpw@uic.edu

The forty-five session Social-Competence Promotion Program for Young Adolescents (SCPP-YA) is a social and emotional learning program that has three modules. The first module includes twenty-seven, 40-minute lessons of intensive instruction in self-control, stress management, social problem solving, and communication skills. The other modules include two nine-session programs that teach students to apply these personal and social competencies to the prevention of substance use and high-risk sexual behavior. This one-year program has produced benefits with diverse fifth- through seventh-grade populations. It is most effective when offered in the context of coordinated, multiyear social development and health-promotion programming.

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Effective program, 2003