Via Blueprints | Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence | CU-Boulder.
Demand for effective violence, drug, and crime prevention programs continues to grow. Across the country, a raft of programs aimed at preventing violence and drug abuse is underway. All of these programs are well-intentioned. Yet very few of them have evidence demonstrating their effectiveness. Many are implemented with little consistency or quality control.
How do we know what works?
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Why do we need to know what works? For two reasons.
First, many programs, despite their good intentions, are either ineffective or actually do more harm than good. Second, ineffective or harmful programs are a waste of scarce violence prevention dollars.
The page describes some of the apparently good ideas which fail expensively before introducing 11 model programs.
