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Prevention Science & Intervention

By: Chelsea, Sara, Chrissy

September 2017

Needs of At-Risk Youth

Needs of At-Risk Youth

What are prevention sciences and interventions doing for the needs of At-Risk youth?

Love Safety Hope Dream Success

Love Safety Hope Dream Success

  • How do we help youth feel loved?
  • How do we provide safety?
  • How are we encouraging hopes & dreams?
  • How do we show them success is possible?

  • How can we factor these things into prevention science?

Prevention VS. Intervention

  • Which do you find to be more effective?

  • Which is more sustainable with the ability to last long-term?

  • Are there other factors that may factor into which is more likely to be used?

The Approach

The Approach

"Kellam and Langevin emphasize the need for collaboration among researchers, policy makers, and local community leaders. Developing a common framework for understanding evidence in prevention research programs is vital in selecting which elements of a prevention program are necessary in a setting to prevent specific problems."

How can we make sure that our approach is effective in practice?

IThere are many approaches to prevention science and intervention. It is solely based on the individual with an individualized treatment plan.

What is the importance of Collaboration?

What is the importance of Collaboration?

"When I changed my initially very didactic approach, reminiscent of the "heavy-handed methods of instruction" mentioned by Yeager et al., and instead gave adolescent individuals more freedom and responsibility in their art projects, they behaved better (in terms of general classroom comportment and appropriate interactions with peers and myself.) Though I didn't necessarily think about it at the time, I was appealing to important adolescent values. By treating them like adults and giving them more independence, I supported their feelings of respect and autonomy. In regards to this insight, a common but nevertheless fitting saying comes to mind:

work WITH them, not AGAINST them . . .talk TO them, not AT them."

The Influence of Risk Factors

From your own experience, how important is the influence of risk factors in the daily lives of our youth?

The Influence of Risk Factors

"Prevention could really be effective but also needs the necessary buy-in to be effective."

  • How important is that 'Buy-in'?

  • What if a child has the risk factors and preventative action is taken. What if the prevention treatment is provided too early? What effect could that have on the future of adolescents?

  • Are risk factors always preventable?

  • Can preventative science fully solve some of the risk factors adolescence face today?

Buy-In Is Everything

Real World Scenarios

  • Push for Inclusion
  • Students with specially designed instruction, low IQ, uninvolved guardians

What would you do if your child was a typically developing learner in a class with special education learners?

What would you do if your child had a disability that required them to be in a small group setting at all times to capitalize on their learning?

What is Necessary for Change?

"...they discuss the fact sometimes it is the person delivering the prevention method, and how they treat the subjuect that is the problem. Why not have the person delivering the form of prevention be someone who the adolescent looks up to? From my personal experience in the classroom and even summer camp, adolescents are more likely to listen to and work with an adult they respect or look up to."

Components for

Effective Change

Together everyone achieves more.

Be Available.

Be a presence in the lives of those who need it. At-Risk doesn't mean there is an inability to change.

Components for Necessary Change

Components for Necessary Change

  • Be Available
  • Be an Active Listener
  • Be cognicent of each individual's differences
  • Prevention science does not directly apply the same way to each child
  • There is no ONE framework or cookie-cutter intervention to adhere to risk factors

What can WE do?

  • Do's & Dont's

What can WE do?

Love Safety Hope Dream Success

"One of the most important things we can do is show up."

  • How do we help youth feel loved?
  • How do we provide safety?
  • How are we encouraging hopes & dreams?
  • How do we show them success is possible?

  • How can we factor these things into prevention science?
  • How does this all relate within the social ecology model? (microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem)
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