Dr. Bill Hansen has started a new weekly podcast, Adolescence: Deep Dive, designed to make research about teens accessible and engaging for everyone. His first episode, "The Power of the School Environment," is available now...
Prevention Strategies' Senior Research Scientist Dr. Bill Hansen's research article, "Modeling Adolescent Disposition Development: Age-Related Changes in Psychosocial Processes Correlated with Substance Use" has been published in the September 2024 issue of the Journal of...
Senior Research Scientist Bill Hansen, PhD received an SBIR grant to develop and test an online game, Classmates, aimed to prevent alcohol use and misuse as well as use of other drugs and engagement in antisocial...
Our colleague, Dr. Erin Reifsteck, associate professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Faculty Fellow for Student Veteran Wellbeing at UNC Greensboro, developed research-backed programming to support the transition of student veterans from the military...
Prevention Strategies' David Wyrick and Shane Stadler led a workshop at the The Society of Health and Physical Educators of Arkansas's SHAPE Arkansas Conference on the critical role that high school health and PE teachers...
Prevention Strategies’ research affiliate, the Center for Athlete Well-Being (CAW) at UNCG, shared innovative, evidence-based tools to enhance clean sport education at the 7th annual PEERS summit hosted by USADA. They led sessions on translating...
Prevention Strategies is partnering with the Arkansas Youth Drug-Use Reduction Program (Grant No. CDS9924G0018-00) led by MidSOUTH at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in an effort to address youth drug and opioid use through prevention education. Prevention Strategies...
Researchers at Prevention Strategies, UNC Greensboro, and Penn State were awarded a five-year R01 grant from the National Institute on Drug Use. The research team will engage key stakeholders in designing and strengthening the first...
Prevention Strategies Senior Research Scientist Dr. Lawrence M. Scheier and Dr. Abe Wandersman are co-editing a special double issue on Strengthening the Science and Practice of Implementation Support: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Training and Technical Assistance Centers. You can...
Prevention Strategies has collaborated with the UNC Greensboro to launch GUIDE (Guiding Universities in Demonstrating Empathy); an empathic communications training that empowers college faculty and staff to conduct effective student support conversations. GUIDE empowers faculty...