Protecting You/Protecting Me

An Evidence-Based Practice

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Description

Protecting You/Protecting Me® (PY/PM) is a 5-year, classroom-based, alcohol-use prevention curriculum for students in first through fifth grade. The curriculum, developed by Mothers Against Drinking and Driving (MADD), is designed to be integrated into the core curriculum at elementary schools. The PY/PM curriculum is an interactive classroom module that provides 42 lessons (8 lessons in each of grades 1 through 4, and 10 lessons in grade 5) and 40 required reinforcement activities (8 in each grade) that promote students' personal responsibility. Each lesson integrates several standard educational objectives, including those related to healthy behaviors and information, personal and interpersonal skills, and influencing factors. Trained school staff, prevention specialists, or high school students enrolled in a peer mentor/leadership course can teach the lessons. The curriculum addresses eight topics: 1) the brain, 2) growth and development, 3) health and safety, 4) rules and laws, 5) friends, 6) choices and decisions, 7) media awareness, and 8) communication (especially with adults).

Goal / Mission

The goal of the curriculum is to prevent injury and death of children and youth due to alcohol-related incidents.

Results / Accomplishments

In a recent pre- and post-test study of more than 700 students, students who participated in the teacher-led PY/PM program made significant gains in stress management, decision-making and vehicle safety skills, while demonstrating positive changes in their attitude toward underage drinking, the perceived harm of alcohol, and knowledge of alcohol's effect on development. The research also showed that the student's retained the information learned in the previous year's PY/PM and benefited from multiple years of the program. The peer-led evaluation found similar positive results. Females tended to score better than males on these measures. Results were found at posttest and again at follow-up, 6 weeks later.

About this Promising Practice

Organization(s)
Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)
Primary Contact
Kappie K. Bliss
Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)
611 South Congress Avenue, Suite 210
Austin, TX 78704
(512) 693-9422
Bliss@MADD.org
Topics
Health / Alcohol & Drug Use
Health / Children's Health
Organization(s)
Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)
Source
SAMHSA's National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices
Date of publication
2005
Date of implementation
1997
For more details
http://nrepp.samhsa.gov/ViewIntervention.aspx?id=9...
Target Audience
Children

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An Evidence-Based Practice meets the following HCI criteria:

  1. The program description includes at a minimum: the sponsoring organization, program goals, program implementation steps, and outcomes that have demonstrated program success in achieving the program goal in one or more localities.
  2. The results from an evaluation of the program include quantitative measures showing improvement in the outcome(s) of interest after the implementation of the program (i.e. increase in smoking cessation, not just the delivery of a smoking cessation program). The outcome measure(s) is/are compared at relevant time periods before and after the intervention or program implementation. Alternatively, the evaluation study compares the outcome(s) between an intervention group and an appropriate control group.
  3. The study is of peer-review quality and presents numbers in a scientific manner; measurements of precision and reliability are included (e.g. confidence intervals, standard errors), results from statistical tests show a significant difference or change in the outcome measure(s), and relevant point estimates and p-values are presented. Note: if the results from an evaluation of a program are presented in a scientific manner and the outcome measure is improved compared to the baseline measurement or the control group but the difference is not statistically significant, the practice is classified as effective and not evidence-based.