Projects

Transdisciplinary Prevention Research Center (TPRC)

This adolescent substance abuse prevention center works to identify the peer influences associated with adolescent substance abuse and seeks to change the way substance abuse prevention messages are presented to young people.

Center-affiliated researchers demonstrated significant associations between school grade configuration and drug-related disciplinary violations, exposure to grade-retained classmates and disciplinary violations, and between the severity of disciplinary policy and the likelihood that adolescents will commit offenses. Some of the funds from the award were used to sponsor a two-day conference for researchers and practitioners focusing on the state of the art in prevention science and efforts to translate that science into effective interventions.

Look for our new website for the P30 TPRC in 2010.