1 5

Prevention That Does More Than Just Prevent

•Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) provides the only screening & brief prevention interventions that can be provided in classrooms, to individuals or virtually

•Each program targets co-occurring health risks of physical inactivity, poor nutrition, lack of sleep & stress to promote mental health, performance & happiness

•Choose from alcohol, marijuana, opioid, & e-cigarette use prevention intervention

•Program manuals include scripted protocols increasing implementer easy & fidelity

•Improves self-regulation skills, self-efficacy & positive identity formation through multiple health behavior goal setting

•Choose either printed program manuals or unlimited access to digital manuals with our Unlimited Program & Training Licenses

•For children, adolescents, young adults, adults, parents & media

•Includes pretest & posttest evaluation surveys to monitor program outcomes

•Used in all 50 US states in school, community, clinic & military settings

2-Minute Video Introducing Practical Prevention Promoting Healthy Lifestyles

Cost-Effective, Easy to Implement & Wide Reaching

We understand that substance abuse and health providers are looking for the most effective way to spend their funds. Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) programs have a high cost-benefit ratio, plus they are easy to implement by just reading the program script. 

Since most of our screening and brief prevention interventions are just a single session, they can reach large numbers of youths and young adults and have broad public health outcomes. Plus, PPW programs are listed on a wide range of evidence-based registries as effective for both preventing substance use/misuse and improving protective healthy habits.

Just pick the program(s) you wish to use for the age-group you are targeting and add it to your shopping cart. We have programs for children through adults and parents. Then, select the training option you like to learn how to implement your program with fidelity and maximum effectiveness.

Learn More

Listed on These Registries as Evidence-Based

  • Evidence-Based Resource Guides

  • Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development

  • National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices

  • Promising Practices Network

  • ...and more

    •Child Trends

    •Prevention Matters

    •Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness

    •Excellence in Prevention Strategies List

    •Results First Clearinghouse Database

    •California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC)

    •OASAS
Learn More About PPW Program's Evidence Base

Healthy Lifestyle Guidelines for Youth Drug Prevention

This popular booklet contains evidence-informed health behavior recommendations and resources selected to help substance use prevention and health providers and parents identify specific goals for improving youths' healthy lifestyles and avoiding alcohol and drugs. 

Healthy lifestyle recommendations were selected from science-based sources and target the following wellness areas:

1. Physical Activity & Sports

2. Healthy Breakfast & Nutrition

3. Getting Adequate Sleep

4. Controlling Stress

5. Avoiding Alcohol and Drug Use

6. Limiting Screen Time

7. Healthy Behavior Goal Setting

These healthy behavior recommendations are for youth ages children through older adolescents.  

Each lifestyle behavior individually, but especially taken together, provides young people, prevention and health specialists and parents with research-based guidelines and tools for helping youth set and monitor goals for enhancing their mental and physical well-being, performance and happiness.

To download this booklet just sign up on the banner at the top of this home page.