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Prevention Programming for African American Youth: A Review of Strategies in CSAP’s National Cross-Site Evaluation of High-Risk Youth Programs

Sandra S. Chipungu

Macro International, Inc.

John Hermann

Macro International, Inc.

Soledad Sambrano

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention

Mary Nistler

EMT Associates, Inc.

Elizabeth Sale

EMT Associates, Inc.

J. Fred Springer

EMT Associates, Inc.

The purpose of this paper is to add to the knowledge base on prevention programming by explicating the characteristics of 12 programs (out of 47) serving African American youth funded by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP). Findings show that African American youth exhibit lower use rates than most other ethnic and racial groups, but by the time they reach ages 16 to 18, use is prevalent. Data on correlations of risk and protective factors with substance use reveal a very similar pattern of rank order in the strength of correlations for African American youth with youth who are not African American in the CSAP sample. The African American programs integrated Africentric principles and themes into other prevention strategies: education-and-awareness, risk-andprotection, and positive-alternative-interventions. The analysis shows that Africentric programming contributes to higher rates of satisfaction and perceived program importance to youth participating in the African American programs, compared to African American youth in other programs.

Journal of Black Psychology, Vol. 26, No. 4, 360-385 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/0095798400026004002
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