Overview of Recent Findings

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Overview of Recent Findings for PROSPER
Presented at the 8th annual Statewide
Meeting Honey Creek Resort, IA May 4-5th 2009
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You All!
How We Achieve Those Positive PROSPER Outcomes
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Outcome Measurement

• Youth In-school Assessments
• All students in participating schools (n11,000)
• Survey questionnaire during one school period

• Annual basis, two consecutive classes
• Family outcomes and youth competencies
• Youth substance use and other problem behaviors

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Illustrative Family Outcome
General Child Management Monitor, Supervise, Set
Limits
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General Child Management
Illustrative Family Outcome
All sig at plt.05
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Lifetime Marijuana Use
Illustrative Youth Outcome
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Illustrative Youth Outcome
Outcomes at 1½ and 3½ Years Past Baseline
Source Spoth, Redmond, Shin, Greenberg, Clair,
Feinberg (2007). Substance use outcomes at 1½
years past baseline from the PROSPER
community-university partnership trial. American
Journal of Preventive Medicine, 32(5), 395-402.
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Translation of Substance Use Outcomes

• Larger schools (300 students) by 9th grade
• 16 fewer students trying marijuana
• 12 fewer students trying cigarettes
• 9 fewer students trying inhalants
• 4 fewer students trying ecstasy
• 3 fewer students trying meth

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PROSPER Helps Higher-Risk Youth
Lifetime Marijuana Use
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Implementation Quality Outcomes

• Typical implementation adherence ranges from
  42-86
• Average 91 adherence to the family programs
• Average 90 adherence to school programs
• High ratings on other quality indicators
• Quality maintained in the short-term (2 cohorts)
• Quality is sustained for the long term (3
  additional cohorts)

Source Spoth, Clair, Shin, Redmond (2007).
Toward dissemination of evidence-based family
interventions Maintenance of community-based
partnership recruitment results and associated
factors. Journal of Family Psychology, 21,
137-146.
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PROSPER SFP 10-14-
Long-Term Mean Adherence Ratings
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PROSPER- Financial Sustainability

• 100 of PROSPER teams obtained external funding
  within a year
• Funds obtained from a variety of sources state,
  city, business, religious and service
  organizations, and private individuals
• Collectively, over 520,000 for sustained family
  EBI, over first two years

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Annual Sustainability Funding
Average per Community 23,951
7,494
In-Kind Contributions
16,457
Dollars Raised
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Team Factors in Cash Raised
Correlations between Cash Raised Per Youth Team
Characteristics
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In other words...

• To our PROSPER Teams!

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PROSPER is a collaboration among prevention
research groups, Cooperative Extension Systems,
schools, and communities in Iowa and
Pennsylvania, evolving from two decades of
community partnership-based research funded by
the National Institutes of Health.
Iowa State University Richard Spoth, Project
Director University Research Team
Cleve
Redmond, Co-Project Director
Chungyeol Shin, Investigator Scott Clair,
Investigator Lisa Schainker, PROSPER
Scientist Jane Todey, PROSPER Field Team
Director Jennifer Dykstra, PROSPER
Post-Doc Prevention Coordinator Team Marilyn
Bode Eugenia Hanlon Jim Meek Anthony
Santiago Other Key Staff Steve Becker, Research
Associate Jessica Clem, Project Manager Shirley
Huck, Data Unit Director Janet Melby, Coding
Unit Director Catherine Webb, Project Assistant
Pennsylvania State University Mark Greenberg,
Project Director University Research Team Mark
Feinberg, Co-Project Director Daniel Perkins,
Investigator Claudia Mincemoyer,
Investigator Janet Welsh, PROSPER Field Team
Director Prevention Coordinator Team Elaine
Berrena Brian Bumbarger Melissa
Tomascik Christine Tomascik Orson Other Key
Staff Laura Burghard, Project Assistant Lesley
Johnson, Graduate Student Melissa Lippold,
Graduate Student Lisa White, Data Collection
Manager Salem Wolk, Graduate Student
The PROSPER Project is Funded by the National
Institute on Drug Abuse Grant DA013709 Addition
al funding support has been provided
by National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and
Alcoholism The Annie E. Casey Foundation National
Institute of Mental Health
PROSPER Overview and Orientation
Guide Members of the PROSPER Partnership
Group
Human Interaction Research Institute Tom Backer,
Co-Investigator