Evidence-Based Programs

Dauphin SCA provides funding for various evidence-based programs throughout the county. Evidence-based programs are programs that have been rigorously tested in controlled settings, proven effective, and translated into practical models that are widely available to community-based organizations.

Project Towards No Drug Abuse (High School Students) 

This program is designed to help students develop self-control and communication skills, acquire resources that help them resist drug use, improve decision making strategies, and develop the motivation to not use drugs. The curriculum was developed for high-risk students in continuation or alternative high schools. It has also been tested among traditional high school students.

tudents receive 12 sessions, sessions are approximately 45 minutes long.

TND – Project Towards No Drug Abuse (usc.edu) 

Strengthening Families Program (Parents & Families) 

This program is designed to increase resilience and reduce risk factors for behavioral, emotional, academic, and social problems in children 3-16 years old. The Parenting Skills sessions are designed to help parents learn to increase desired behaviors in children by using attention and rewards, clear communication, effective discipline, substance use education, problem solving, and limit setting.

The Children's Life Skills sessions are designed to help children learn effective communication, understand their feelings, improve social and problem-solving skills, resist peer pressure, understand the consequences of substance use, and comply with parental rules.

In the Family Life Skills sessions, families engage in structured family activities, practice therapeutic child play, conduct family meetings, learn communication skills, practice effective discipline, reinforce positive behaviors in each other, and plan family activities together.

Families receive 14 sessions, sessions are approximately 2 hours long

Welcome - Strengthening Families Program 

Too Good for Drugs/Maximizing Life (Elementary, Middle, and High School Students) 

Too Good for Drugs (TGFD) is a school-based prevention program for kindergarten through 12th grade that builds on students' resiliency by teaching them how to be socially competent and autonomous problem solvers. The program introduces and develops social and emotional skills for making healthy choices, building positive friendships, communicating effectively, and resisting peer pressure. TGFD teaches five essential social and emotional learning skills: 

• Goal Setting 

• Decision Making 

• Bonding with pro-social others 

• Identifying and managing emotions 

• Communicating effectively

Too Good Programs – Mendez Foundation 

Too Good for Violence/A Peaceable Place (Elementary, Middle, and High School Students) 

Too Good for Violence (TGFV) is a school- and community-based prevention program for kindergarten through 12th grade. The program provides students with the skills, knowledge, and attitudes they need for positive social development and supportive relationships. Concepts addressed vary by grade level but include topics such as developing and applying social and emotional learning skills for conflict resolution, bullying prevention, anger management, and respect for self and others.

Students receive 10 sessions, sessions are approximately 45 minutes long.

Too Good Programs – Mendez Foundation