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We strongly believe that colleges that are improving their emotional support and substance prevention programs will have healthier, safer and more successful student bodies.
Therefore there is a recognized need in the field of substance use prevention for selective prevention programmes.
Yet, relatively little is known about the attitudes related to substance use prevention and the specific prevention practices employed in substance use prevention programs (e.g., strengthening youth's drug refusal skills; strengthening family skills) of the JJ staff and agencies charged with youth under community supervision.
JJ agencies may further strengthen their staff's attitudes towards substance use prevention by communicating how prevention aligns with the agency's mission and the larger goals of justice reform, community diversion and reducing recidivism among youth.
Substance use prevention, both primary and secondary prevention efforts, for justice-involved youth is likely critically important to disrupt pathways to multiple potential adverse physical, mental and behavioral outcomes.
Substance use prevention, both primary and secondary prevention efforts, for justice-involved youth is likely critically important to disrupt pathways to multiple potential adverse physical, mental and behavioral outcomes, including further involvement with the justice system.
The measure of perceived importance of substance use prevention consisted of 6 items about prevention for justice-involved youth under community supervision; item wording appears in Table 1.
Results are encouraging in that there is very strong support among community supervision staff for substance use prevention services and widespread agreement that prevention services are part of agency responsibilities.
The outcome variable was a self-report measures of the perceived importance of substance use prevention and did not include behavioral measures of prevention services (e.g., making referrals to prevention services, individual-level delivery of prevention services).
Substance use prevention programs aim to delay or prevent onset of use among those who have never used illegal substances (i.e., primary prevention), as well as to reduce escalation in use among those who have already begun using (i.e., secondary prevention).
