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Risk Factors—Individual
Anti-social behavior and alienation/Delinquent beliefs/General delinquency involvement/Drug dealing
Chronic medical and/or physical condition
Cognitive and neurological deficits/Low intelligence quotient/Hyperactivity
Early onset of aggression and/or violence
Early sexual involvement
Favorable attitudes toward drug use/Early onset of AOD use/Alcohol and/or drug use
Gun possession/Illegal gun ownership and/or carrying
Lack of guilt and empathy
Life stressors
Mental disorder/Mental health problem/Conduct disorder
Poor refusal skills
Programs
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Across Ages
Ages 10-12
Alcohol Misuse Prevention Study
Ages 10-18
All Stars™
Ages 11-15
Athletes Training and Learning to Avoid Steroids (ATLAS)
Ages 13-19
Be a Star
Ages 5-12
Boys and Girls Club Gang Prevention Through Targeted Outreach
Ages 6-18
Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention of College Students (BASICS)
Ages 18-24
Broader Urban Involvement and Leadership Development Program (BUILD)
Ages 10-17
Consistency Management & Cooperative Discipline®
Ages 3-18
Coping Power Program
Ages 9-11
Creating Lasting Family Connections
Ages 9-17
DARE To Be You
Ages 2-5
Early Risers ‘Skills for Success’ Program
Ages 6-10
Families in Action
Ages 11-14
Family Effectiveness Training
Ages 6-12
Family Matters
Ages 12-14
Focus on Families
Ages 3-14
Gang Resistance Is Paramount
Ages 7-16
Girls Inc. Friendly PEERsuasion®
Ages 11-14
Girls Inc. Preventing Adolescent Pregnancy®
Ages 9-17
Girls’ Circle
Ages 9-18
Good Behavior Game
Ages 6-10
Great Body Shop
Ages 4-14
Guiding Good Choices
Ages 9-14
Helping the Noncompliant Child
Ages 2-7
Keep A Clear Mind
Ages 8-12
Know Your Body
Ages 5-12
LifeSkills® Training
Ages 8-14
Lions-Quest Skills for Adolescence
Ages 10-14
Lions-Quest Working Toward Peace
Ages 10-14
Movimiento Ascendencia
Ages 8-19
Multimodal Substance Abuse Prevention
Ages 13-18
Native American Prevention Project Against AIDS and Substance Abuse
Ages 12-18
Not-On-Tobacco (N–O–T)
Ages 14-19
Operation Ceasefire
Ages 15-24
Parenting Wisely
Ages 6-18
Parent–Child Assistance Program
Ages 0-3
Peacemakers Program
Ages 9-14
Preventive Alcohol Education Program
Ages 12-17
Project ALERT
Ages 11-14
Project EX
Ages 14-19
Project PACE
Ages 9-10
Project Toward No Drug Abuse
Ages 14-19
Project Toward No Tobacco Use
Ages 10-14
Promoting Alternative THinking Strategies (PATHS)
Ages 5-10
Residential Student Assistance Program
Ages 14-17
Responding In Peaceful and Positive Ways
Ages 10-14
SISTERS
Ages 0-50
STARS (Start Taking Alcohol Risks Seriously) for Families
Ages 11-14
Say It Straight
Ages 8-18
Schools and Families Educating Children (SAFE Children)
Ages 4-6
Second Step®: A Violence Prevention Curriculum
Ages 4-14
Sembrando Salud
Ages 11-16
Skills, Opportunities, and Recognition (SOAR)
Ages 5-14
Social Decision Making/Problem Solving Program
Ages 5-14
Spit Tobacco Intervention for High School Athletes
Ages 14-18
Strengthening Families Program
Ages 3-17
Strengthening Families Program: For Parents and Youth 10–14
Ages 10-14
Teaching Students to Be Peacemakers
Ages 7-18
Teams–Games–Tournaments Alcohol Prevention
Ages 13-17
Teenage Health Teaching Modules
Ages 11-18
Too Good for Drugs
Ages 5-18
Tribes
Ages 5-18
Urban Improv
Ages 8-11
Violence Prevention Curriculum for Adolescents
Ages 12-18
Woodrock Youth Development Program
Ages 6-14
keepin’ it R.E.A.L. (Refuse, Explain, Avoid, Leave)
Ages 10-17
Teen parenthood
Victimization and exposure to violence
Risk Factors—Family
Broken home
Child victimization and maltreatment
Family history of the problem behavior/Parent criminality
Family management problems/Poor parental supervision and/or monitoring
Family transitions
Family violence
Having a young mother
Low parent education level/Illiteracy
Maternal depression
Parental use of physical punishment/Harsh and/or erratic discipline practices
Pattern of high family conflict
Poor family attachment/Bonding
Sibling antisocial behavior
Risk Factors—School
Dropping out of school
Frequent school transitions
Identified as learning disabled
Inadequate school climate/Poorly organized and functioning schools/Negative labeling by teachers
Low academic achievement
Low academic aspirations
Low parent college expectations for child
Negative attitude toward school/Low bonding/Low school attachment/Commitment to school
School suspensions
Truancy/Frequent absences
Risk Factors—Community
Availability of alcohol and other drugs
Availability of firearms
Community crime/High crime neighborhood
Community instability
Economic deprivation/Poverty/Residence in a disadvantaged neighborhood
Feeling unsafe in the neighborhood
Low community attachment
Neighborhood youth in trouble
Social and physical disorder/Disorganized neighborhood
Risk Factors—Peer
Association with delinquent and/or aggressive peers
Gang involvement/Gang membership
Peer alcohol, tobacco, and/or other drug use
Peer rejection