This course focuses on research-based principles for preventing alcohol and drug abuse among children and adolescents.

Topics covered include:

• Patterns of drug use among children and adolescents
• Risk and protective factors among children and adolescents
• Community-based prevention models
• Applying prevention principles to drug abuse prevention programs
• Models of research-based prevention programs
• Principles of substance abuse prevention for early childhood
• Characteristic features of early childhood interventions
• Universal, selective, and tiered early intervention substance abuse prevention programs

25 Hours – $150