Find Recommendations for Aligning Your Program with Evidence on Core Components

Interventions that focus on enhancing or improving family and parental influences on youth, particularly through improved parent-child relationships and positive parenting behaviors.

Examples: Family therapy, parenting skills training, social support groups for caregivers, coping skills training for divorce or other family issues.

Interventions that emphasize trusting and supportive relationships with others, including mentors therapists and counselors.

Examples: Counseling, peer or adult mentoring, group therapy, community mental health services.

Interventions that teach youth skills to manage social interactions and control executive responses such as anger and impulsivity.

Examples: Interpersonal or social skills training, anger management training, executive functioning skills training.

Interventions that focus on improving school performance, school engagement, and academically-oriented behavior.

Examples: Tutoring and enrichment, schools-within-schools, remedial or developmental instruction, after-school academic intervention.

Interventions that focus on shaping or modifying problem behaviors and precursors through rewards and punishments.

Examples: Behavior modification and reinforcement techniques, behavioral contracting, token economy, classroom management training.

Effective implementation refers to the supports needed to implement a program well. Visit this section for specific suggestions on setting up systems to ensure implementation problems can be identified and addressed during the course of service delivery. The recommendations are applicable across all intervention families for a selected outcome.