Prevention Program
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Reading Recovery is a program for children who have been in formal schooling for a year and are in the bottom 20% of their class in reading skills. Children take part daily in 30 minute individual tuition sessions lasting over a period of 12 to 20 weeks. The...
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A research partnership between Deakin University and CTC Ltd. is developing and testing an intervention to check retailer compliance with minimum age laws for alcohol sales. Purchase attempts are monitored for a young person who looks to be under the legal...
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Compliance checks and enforcement of legislation banning sales to young people under age 18 can reduce smoking prevalence in this group. Compliance checks involve a young person that appears to be under the legal age seeking to purchase tobacco products from...
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The school-based Resilient Families prevention program is designed to develop the knowledge, skills and support networks of students and their parents in order to promote adolescent health and wellbeing.
The program consists of the following five...
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A new social marketing intervention is being developed and trialled in a partnership between Deakin University and CTC Ltd. The intervention has been designed using an evidence-based behaviour change approach called the Theory of Planned Behaviour. The social...
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The Gatehouse Project is a school-based intervention designed to build the capacity of school communities to address the emotional and mental health needs of young people. The program includes classroom and whole-school components, providing strategies to...
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The Good Behaviour Game (GBG) has been carefully designed to provide a feasible method for introducing a positive classroom discipline system, and is typically delivered across the first three years of primary school. Classroom disruptions in early primary...
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The School Health and Alcohol Harm Reduction Project (SHAHRP) is an evidence based classroom curriculum designed to reduce alcohol related harm among secondary school students. The key focus of the program is on the development of utility knowledge and harm...
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The Strengthening Families Program for 10 – 14 year olds (SFP 10-14) is a universal prevention program that aims to assist families within late primary school/early high school. The program is designed to increase resilience, and reduce risk factors for...
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The Triple P Positive Parenting Program is the most commonly implemented parenting program in Australia. Triple P is a parenting and family support strategy that targets the developmental periods of infancy, toddlerhood, pre-school, primary school and...
