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Sustaining a School-Based Prevention Program: Results from the Aban Aya Sustainability Project

Michael C. Fagen, PhD, MPH1* Brian R. Flay, DPhil2

1 Department of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Athletics, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago.
2 Department of Public Health, College of Health and Human Services, Oregon State University, Corvalis.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: mfagen{at}comcast.net.


  Abstract

Sustaining effective school-based prevention programs is critical to improving youth and population-based health. This article reports on results from the Aban Aya Sustainability Project, an effort to sustain a school-based prevention program that was tested via a randomized trial and targeted violence, drug use, and risky sex-related behaviors among a cohort of 5th-grade African American children followed through 10th grade. Sustainability project health educators trained parent educators to deliver the Aban Aya prevention curriculum in five schools, and project researchers studied the resultant curricular implementation and relations between the research and school-based teams. Study results showed uneven implementation across the five schools that we largely attributed to parent educator preparation and parent educator-health educator relations. These and related results are discussed to answer the study's primary research question: How viable was the sustainability project's parent-centered approach to sustaining a school-based prevention program?

Key Words: sustainability, school-based programs, parent involvement, violence, substance use, sex education

First published on December 15, 2006, doi:10.1177/1090198106291376

Health Education & Behavior 2009;36:9.

A more recent version of this article appeared on February 1, 2009

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