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Monday, August 10, 2009

The BRAVE (Building Resiliency and Vocational Excellence) Program: Evaluation Findings for a Career-Oriented Substance Abuse and Violence Preventive Intervention
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved - Volume 20, Number 3, August 2009, pp. 798-816

This article examines the effectiveness of a career-oriented intervention for preventing involvement with alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs (ATODs) and violence and for promoting resilient behavior among eighth-grade, African American middle school students (N=178; n=92 intervention and n=86 comparison) through the implementation of the Building Resiliency and Vocational Excellence (BRAVE) Program.

Results revealed a beneficial effect of the intervention on participants’ frequency of use of alcohol (p<.04) and marijuana (p<.05), but no effect for violent behavior.


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