Ages: 11 - 15 year olds
Contact: William Hansen
Tanglewood Research, Inc.
7017 Albert Pick Road, Suite D
Greensboro, NC 27409
Phone: 800/826-4539, ext. 101
The All Stars Program targets factors believed to influence high-risk behaviors in early adolescence. It is designed to promote positive character development, while deterring the onset of negative behaviors. The core program involves 14, 45-minute classroom sessions, with supplemental home-based components. An eight session booster program is also available. Students are taught that high-risk behaviors interfere with their desired lifestyle. The interactive curriculum uses games, debates, projects, taped performances, and active discussion to promote student commitment to avoiding high-risk behavior, and increasing students' awareness about the prevalence and acceptability of high-risk behavior among their peers.
The evaluated sample of All Stars included seventh grade students in a small, multiethnic North Carolina town consisting of mainly blue collar and midlevel-professional households. The seventh grade program youth had a prevalence rate that was 8% lower for use of alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and hard drugs than nonprogram youth.
US Department of Education, 1999, Promising Program
Center for Substance Abuse and Prevention, Model Program, (PDF)