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The City Lights Primary Prevention and Early Intervention Demonstration Project
L'Homme, B., Evans, W., Curtin, K., & Shusterman, G. (1993). The City Lights Primary Prevention and Early Intervention Demonstration Project. In C. J. Liberton (Ed.), A System of Care for Children's Mental Health: Expanding the Research Base. Annual Research Conference Proceedings (6th, Tampa, FL, March 1-3,1993): Chapter 4: The Role of Education in Systems of Care (pp. 235-240) http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED372524.pdf
City Lights School has successfully incorporated a substance abuse prevention and treatment component into its existing psychoeducational day treatment program. With this addition, the school's services now include: remedial education, clinical and psychological services, vocational counseling and job development, and substance abuse prevention and treatment three-year grant from the Office of Substance Abuse Prevention (OSAP) initially funded the program, with a two-year extension enabling support to continue through August 1992. The substance abuse prevention program has addressed one key problem: preventing and arresting substance abuse among the growing population of high risk youth. Data were collected on dependent variables such as incidence of substance abuse, transition to more and less restrictive environments, recidivism, and independent living. Independent variables such as age, ward status, and school history were also tracked. The main findings were that the rate of criminal offenses dropped, and the rates of employment, training, and independent living increased.