Author: Bumbarger, Brian K.
Title: Is There a Role for Police in School-based Drug Prevention? The Law-Enforcement Education Partnership to Promote LifeSkills Training (LEEP-LST) Project: Final Report
Summary: This project was a pilot study intended to explore the potential utility of using police officers to deliver a school-based drug prevention curriculum. As prevention research continues to inform public policy, practitioners and policy makers are moving to the adoption of prevention strategies with demonstrated evidence of effectiveness in well-designed studies. Of the programs with strong empirical support, there were no examples that involved police officers in school-based prevention (demand reduction) efforts. This had the unfortunate and unintended consequence of alienating police agencies who desired to work collaboratively with schools in substance abuse prevention, and has limited the options of schools who wish to pursue empirically supported programs. The results show that police officers are capable of delivering a quality prevention program with fidelity, and suggest that disappointing results in prior research with officer-delivered curricula should not be attributed to officers being a poor fit for this type of work.
Details: State College, PA: Prevention Research Center for the Promotion of Human Development, Pennsylvania State University, 2007. 37p.
Source: Internet Resource
Year: 2007
Country: United States
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Shelf Number: 118603
Keywords:
Drug PreventionSchools, Drug Education |
