Long-term Effects of the &lt;I&gt;Positive Action&lt;/I&gt;® Program

Flay, Brian R.; Allred, Carol G.

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“…There is evidence that the Positive Action program reduces violent behavior, substance use, bullying, suspensions and absenteeism; increases math and reading standardized test scores; and positively impacts student-reported positive affect, life satisfaction, depression, and disaffection with learning, as well as teacher-rated academic ability, motivation, and school-level absenteeism Beets et al, 2009;Flay and Allred, 2003;Lewis et al, 2013;Li et al, 2011;Snyder et al, 2010). The likelihood that the Positive Action program will yield benefits greater than the costs is 87 percent, with the annual estimated per participant cost of $444 (in 2016 dollars) (Washington State Institute for Public Policy, 2017e).…”

Section: Academic and Social Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Leveraging Research and Philanthropy to Reduce Crime and Violence in the Mississippi Delta

Saunders¹,

Barnes-Proby²,

Peterson³

2018

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This document and trademark(s) contained herein are protected by law. This representation of RAND intellectual property is provided for noncommercial use only. Unauthorized posting of this publication online is prohibited. Permission is given to duplicate this document for personal use only, as long as it is unaltered and complete. Permission is required from RAND to reproduce, or reuse in another form, any of its research documents for commercial use. For information on reprint and linking permissions, please visit www.rand.org/pubs/permissions.The RAND Corporation is a research organization that develops solutions to public policy challenges to help make communities throughout the world safer and more secure, healthier and more prosperous. RAND is nonprofit, nonpartisan, and committed to the public interest.RAND's publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions of its research clients and sponsors.Support RAND Make a tax-deductible charitable contribution at www.rand.org/giving/contribute www.rand.org For more information on this publication, visit www.rand.org/t/RR2457Published by the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, Calif. © Copyright 2018 RAND CorporationR® is a registered trademark.iii PrefaceIn fall 2017, the Walton Family Foundation requested that the RAND Corporation perform research to help the foundation's understanding of how to use philanthropy to positively impact public safety in Phillips County, Arkansas and Coahoma County, Mississippi. Specifically, foundation members were interested in (1) the current state of criminal activity and public safety, as well as the experiences and priorities of the community residents; (2) the institutional challenges and unmet needs of the local criminal justice systems agencies; (3) the variability of crime across the counties; (4) which best practices and approaches could help improve safety in the counties; and (5) research-based recommendations for how the Walton Family Foundation could improve public safety. We developed a project to address these questions and conducted research and analysis between fall 2017 and spring 2018. This research report describes both the methods and findings of the research to help the Walton Family Foundation develop its public safety funding strategy for these counties.The research reported here was conducted through the RAND Justice Policy Program, which spans both criminal and civil justice systems issues with such topics as public safety, effective policing, police-community relations, drug policy and enforcement, corrections policy, use of technology in law enforcement, tort reform, catastrophe and mass-injury compensation, court resourcing, and insurance regulation. Program research is supported by government agencies, foundations, and the private sector.RAND Justice, Infrastructure, and Environment (JIE) conducts research and analysis in civil and criminal justice, infrastructure development and financing, environmental policy, transportation planning and technology, immigration and border protection, public and occupa...

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Section: Academic and Social Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Leveraging Research and Philanthropy to Reduce Crime and Violence in the Mississippi Delta

Saunders¹,

Barnes-Proby²,

Peterson³

2018

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“…The mutually beneficial features of the relations that enabled thriving to emerge were based on the idea that PYD occurred when there was an alignment between attributes of youth that constituted strengths of the individual (as, for instance, operationalized by characteristics such as intentional self-regulation skills, hopeful future expectations, and school engagement; Lerner et al 2013) and the features of the context that were developmental assets (for instance, warmth and monitoring by engaged parents or sustained relations with a caring and competent mentor or youth program practitioner). This strengths-based approach to youth development in general and to the understanding of thriving in particular was a frame for the key approaches to the design of PYD programs and to instances of such programs that were derived from such theory-predicated approaches (e.g., Catalano et al 2002Catalano et al , 2004Flay 2002;Flay and Allred 2003;Kurtines et al 2008).…”

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Special Issue Introduction: Thriving Across the Adolescent Years: A View of the Issues

Bowers

Geldhof

Johnson

et al. 2014

J Youth Adolescence

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Framed within a relational developmental systems model, the 4-H Study of positive youth development (PYD) explored the bases and implications of thriving across much of the second decade of life. This special issue pertains to information derived from the recently completed eight waves of the 4-H Study of PYD, and presents findings about the relations between individual and contextual variables that are involved in the thriving process. This introduction briefly reviews the historical background and the theoretical frame for the 4-H Study and describes its general methodology. We provide an overview of the articles in this special issue and discuss the ways in which the articles elucidate different facets of the thriving process. In addition, we discuss the implications of this research for future scholarship and for applications aimed at improving the life chances of diverse adolescents.

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“…Preliminary findings indicate that PA can positively influence school attendance, behaviour and achievement. Two previous quasi-experimental studies utilizing archival school-level data (Flay & Allred, 2003) reported beneficial effects on student achievement (e.g., math, reading, and science) and serious problem behaviours (e.g., suspensions and violence rates). As practitioners, policymakers and researchers have implemented programs and sought to raise academic achievement and to address negative behaviours among the youth, an increasing amount of evidence indicates a relationship among multiple behaviours (Botvin, Griffin, & Nichols, 2006;Catalano, Berglund, Ryan, Lonczak, & Hawkins, 2004;Flay, 2002).…”

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“…One of these programs currently being used nationally is the Positive Action (PA) program. PA is a comprehensive school-wide Social-emotional and Character Development (SACD) program (Flay & Allred, 2003) which was developed to specifically target the positive development of student behaviour and character. Based on prior studies, PA has been recognized in the character-education report by the U.S. Department of Education's What Works Clearing house (2007) as the only "character education" program in the nation to meet the evidentiary requirements for improving both academics and behaviour.…”

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confidence: 99%

Impact of the School Outreach Tour Program of Citizens Archive of Pakistan on Students' Perceptions and Attitudes

Alam¹

2017

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Long-term Effects of the <I>Positive Action</I>® Program

Cited by 107 publications

References 21 publications

Leveraging Research and Philanthropy to Reduce Crime and Violence in the Mississippi Delta

Leveraging Research and Philanthropy to Reduce Crime and Violence in the Mississippi Delta

Special Issue Introduction: Thriving Across the Adolescent Years: A View of the Issues

Impact of the School Outreach Tour Program of Citizens Archive of Pakistan on Students' Perceptions and Attitudes

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