Grades: 6-9
Contact: Tom Dishion
Child and Family Center
195 West 12th Avenue
Eugene, OR 97401
Phone: 541/346-4805, Fax: 541/485-7087
ATP focuses on parenting practices and integrates the various alcohol, tobacco, and other drug-use prevention approaches within a comprehensive framework. It is based on a series of intervention trials that comprise the Parent Focus curriculum and on other intervention strategies, including working with high-risk teens in groups and directed strategies involving videotapes and newsletters. The findings from these studies indicate that parent interventions are needed for youth at high risk to reduce escalation of drug use, and repeated booster sessions are needed throughout the period of risk. These interventions were especially important because it was found that youth at high risk should not be placed together in groups because it can worsen problem behaviors, including those related to school and drug use.