What are the financial benefits of Nurse Family Partnership program and how are they distributed? New research offers more details.

Is there a positive side to failure? A new book about the criminal justice system lifts the lid on why some programs fail and argues that past failures are the key to future successes.

Improving children’s behavior, reducing teachers’ stress: the well-known intervention proves a success in Irish schools.

New research suggests that Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) is successful at both reducing risk factors associated with child maltreatment as well as reducing notifications of abuse to child protection services.

Little is known about heading off the worst effects of traumatic experiences for children. But a new development suggests help is at hand, if only it were taken up by families.

A bill before the British parliament aims to restrict the advertising of alcoholic products in the media and at events popular with young people. Such a step is likely to reduce consumption and so prevent a range of social problems.

What frameworks can help organizations make lasting changes for the better? “Getting to Outcomes” sets out a model for planning, changing, and evaluating – in 10 useful steps.

A focus on improving the lives of adolescents across the developing world is believed to provide high social and financial returns to international aid investments, a UNICEF report suggests. But how do these ideas fit with messages on early intervention?

U.S. policy makers are looking to schools to deliver mental health services – and a pilot study shows how successful this can be. But concerns about feasibility remain.

The wrong dose of medicine may do you harm – and too little can be as bad as too much. The same is true of drug and alcohol prevention programs, a new study finds.

We know that aggressive behavior in adolescents costs money. Now, a new study suggests the costs may start piling up much earlier – with the families of aggressive four-year-olds.

Policies to combat poverty usually try to improve objective outcomes – like income, education, and nutrition. But policy makers should go beyond the conventional objective measurements to consider relationships and meanings, a development economist argues.

Efforts to improve outcomes for children in the early years typically cluster around improving behavior, social and emotional skills and preparing children for school. Does promotion of “executive functioning” hold the key to all of these?

After a program has been found to work, expanding it to new places and people can appear a major challenge. A recent report reveals the six steps needed to take a program to scale.

Take one evidence-based intervention, two trained practitioners, a clear practitioner manual and…voila! A standard recipe to produce improvements in child outcomes, at least in some contexts. The authors of a new study explore the potential reasons why some evidence-based programmes fail to produce the same improvements when delivered in the community. They argue two key elements play a part.

Engaging parents is easier said than done, but Nick Axford explained at the Society for Research Prevention’s annual conference in Washington DC how valuable, practical lessons were learned from mistakes in a program at six children’s centers.

Can we broaden the scope of cost-benefit analysis? There are implications for evidence-based programs, practices, policies, and processes. Prevention Action reports from the Society for Prevention Research (SPR) in Washington D.C.

Speakers from UNICEF in Swaziland, the World Health Organization and the Center for Disease Control discuss what needs to be done to prevent sexual violence against children on a global scale on the second day of the Society for Prevention Research (SPR) conference.

Prevention Action covers the second day of the Society for Prevention Research (SPR) Conference with a feature on the most prevalent cause of premature morbidity and mortality in the world. An estimated 1 billion people are predicted to die of tobacco use in the 21st Century. A global fight back sponsored by the World Health Organization promises to change this, but will it work and how will we know?

As the Society for Prevention Research (SPR) holds an important anniversary conference, Prevention Action finds optimism and ambitions to further its work on an even larger scale.

There are many challenges associated with the implementation of evidence-based programs in real-world settings. Research reveals that for one program - Coping Power - success is in part determined by the intensity of supervisory feedback provided to those on the front line delivering the intervention.

The effectiveness of anxiety prevention programs amongst children and adolescents was the focus of a recent meta-analytic review published in the journal Prevention Science. The findings reveal small but significant effects on outcomes.