| Program Name | Project Northland |
Northland is a community-wide intervention designed to reduce alcohol use among young adolescents through both demand and supply reduction strategies. Spanning three years, the multi-level program encompasses parent involvement, parent and youth education programs, and community taskforce activities. Project Northland aims to help young people gain communication skills, improve their understanding of peer influence and normative expectations to drink alcohol, and participate with parents and community agencies and organizations in bringing about community-wide change in alcohol-related programs and policies. Through this project, parents may also improve how they communicate with their children. Project Northland also aims to directly change the social environment through community taskforce activities. The program has been selected by the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence for inclusion among its “Promising” programs, and is highlighted in the Drug Strategies publication, Making the Grade, and in the 1998 Annual Report on School Safety.
Target Population
- Grade Level: from Sixth grade to Eighth grade
Target Behaviors
- Alcohol and/or drug use
Significant Effects
- Alcohol use
- Tobacco use
- Other drug use
- Other behaviors
- Associated factors
Contact
Cheryl L. Perry, Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota; for Project Northland materials contact: Ann Standing, Hazelden at 651-213-4030 or 800-328-9000
300 West Bank Office Building, 1300 S. Second St., Suite 300
Minneapolis , Mn 55455
Phone: 612-624-4188
Fax: 612-624-0315
E-Mail: perry@epi.umn.edu
URL: www.hazelden.org
Sara Veblen-Mortenson, 612-624-0057
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