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Proven and Promising Programs

Programs are generally assigned either a Proven or a Promising rating, depending on whether they have met certain evidence criteria.

Screened Programs

Some programs are identified as Screened Programs. These programs have not undergone a full review by PPN, but evidence of their effectiveness has been reviewed by one or more credible organizations that apply similar evidence criteria.

Read more about the criteria used to evaluate programs.

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The PPN site is always a work in progress. We are currently evaluating many programs that do not yet appear on the site. Those which meet our criteria will be posted as soon as possible.

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Programs that Work

The PPN site features summaries of programs and practices that are proven to improve outcomes for children. All programs have been screened for quality and to ensure that they have evidence of positive effects.

What does it mean when a program is listed as Proven, Promising, or Screened?   Read more about the criteria used to evaluate programs.

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Below is a complete list of all programs on the PPN site in alphabetical order.



 Proven and Promising Programs

Accelerated Academics Academy (AAA)

Adolescent Coping with Depression Course

Athletes Training and Learning to Avoid Steroids (ATLAS)

Be Proud! Be Responsible!

Big Brothers Big Sisters of America

Carolina Abecedarian Project

CASASTART

Child Development Project

Child Sexual Abuse Prevention: Teacher Training Workshop

Child-Parent Centers

Class Wide Peer Tutoring Program

Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS)

Cognitive Relaxation Coping Skills

Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI)

Communities In Schools

Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition

Coping Cat

Coping with Stress Course

Core Knowledge

Counselors Care (CARE)

Creating Lasting Family Connections

DARE to be You

Direct Instruction

Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program (ECEAP)

Early Head Start

Early Intervention in Reading

The Effective Learning Program

Father/Male Involvement Preschool Teacher Education Program

Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.)

Get Real About AIDS

Guiding Good Choices

Healthy Families New York (HFNY)

Healthy Start

HighScope Perry Preschool Program

I Have a Dream

Incredible Years

Infant Health and Development Program

Know Your Body

LifeSkills Training

Multisystemic Therapy (MST)

Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program (NIDCAP)

Nurse Family Partnership

Parents as Teachers

Parents' Fair Share

Partners in Reading

Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies

Postponing Sexual Involvement/Human Sexuality Educational Series

Primary and Secondary Control Enhancement Training

Project ALERT

Project Northland

Project STAR/Midwestern Prevention Project

Project TRUST

Quantum Opportunity Program (QOP)

Reaching Educators, Children, and Parents (RECAP)

Reading Recovery

Reciprocal Teaching

Reducing the Risk

Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP)

Safe Child Program

Seattle Social Development Project

Second Step Violence Prevention

Self Center (School-Linked Reproductive Health Services)

Smart Start

Social Decision Making / Problem Solving

Student Achievement Guarantee in Education (SAGE)

Syracuse Family Development Research Program

Team Accelerated Instruction: Math

Teen Outreach Program

Teen Talk

Who Do You Tell?

 Screened Programs

Achievement for Latinos through Academic Success

Across Ages

Aggression Replacement Training

Aggressors, Victims, and Bystanders: Thinking and Acting to Prevent Violence

Al's Pals: Kids Making Healthy Choices

All Stars

All Stars (Core Program)

Arthur

Behavioral Monitoring and Reinforcement Program

Bilingual Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition

Brief Strategic Family Therapy

Career Academies

Check & Connect

Children in the Middle

Class Action

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Child Sexual Abuse (CBT-CSA)

Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol (CMCA)

Community of Caring

Community Trials Intervention to Reduce High-Risk Drinking (RHRD)

Connect with Kids

Coping Power Program

DaisyQuest

Dialogic Reading

Early Risers 'Skills for Success' Program

Enhanced Proactive Reading

Everyday Mathematics

The Expert Mathematician

Facing History and Ourselves

Families And Schools Together (FAST)

Family Effectiveness Training (FET)

Family Matters

Fast ForWord Language

FAST Track

Financial Incentives for Teen Parents to Stay in School

Focus on Families

Functional Family Therapy

Good Behavior Game

Growing Healthy

I CAN Learn Pre-Algebra and Algebra

I Can Problem Solve

Instructional Conversations and Literature Logs

Interactive Shared Book Reading

Keep A Clear Mind (KACM)

Keepin' it R.E.A.L. (Refuse, Explain, Avoid, Leave)

Leadership and Resiliency Program (LRP)

Lessons in Character

Let Each One Teach One Mentor Program

Linking the Interests of Families and Teachers (LIFT)

Lions-Quest Skills for Adolescence

Lions-Quest Working Toward Peace

Michigan Model for Comprehensive School Health Education

Minnesota Smoking Prevention Program

Multidimensional Family Therapy

Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care

Not On Tobacco

Olweus Bullying Prevention Program

Open Circle Curriculum

OSLC Treatment Foster Care

Parent Child Development Center

Parenting Wisely

Parenting With Love and Limits

PeaceBuilders

The Peacemakers Program: Violence Prevention for Students in Grades 4-8

Peers Making Peace

Phonological Awareness Training

Phonological Awareness Training plus Letter Knowledge Training

Positive Action

Preventive Treatment Program

Primary Mental Health Project

Project ACHIEVE

Project EX

Project SUCCESS

Project Toward No Drug Abuse (Project TND)

Project Toward No Tobacco Use (Project TNT)

Project Venture

Prolonged Exposure Therapy

Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies

Protecting You / Protecting Me

Reading Mastery / SRA / McGraw-Hill

Reconnecting Youth (RY)

Residential Student Assistance Program

Responding in Peaceful and Positive Ways

Safe Dates

Saxon Middle School Math

Say It Straight Training

SCARE Program

School Transitional Environmental Program

Schools and Families Educating Children (SAFE Children)

Shared Book Reading

SNAP / Under 12 Outreach

Sound Foundations

Start Taking Alcohol Risks Seriously (STARS) for Families

Strengthening Families Program

Strengthening Families Program: For Parents and Youth 10-14

Strong African American Families (SAAF) Program

Students Managing Anger and Resolution Together Team (SMART Team)

Talent Search

Teaching Students to be Peacemakers

Teenage Health Teaching Modules

The Think Time Strategy

Too Good for Drugs

Too Good for Drugs and Violence

Too Good for Violence

Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Twelve Together

University of Chicago School Mathematics Project (UCSMP) Algebra

Vocabulary Improvement Program for English Language Learners and Their Classmates