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In an effort to improve inner-city children's knowledge of problems of drug and alcohol abuse, especially related to traffic safety, a test of the Rhodes and Jason social-stress prevention model was conducted as part of a comprehensive summer day camp for largely minority youngsters in Wheeling, West Virginia. As part of a multidisciplinary and comprehensive approach to youth development called Project YES, the drug and alcohol module (DAM) was designed to improve students' awareness of issues, consequences, and physiological effects. Important findings are that intense drug and alcohol awareness training could be successfully integrated into an intense day camp context among inner-city youth and that the DAM was a reasonably popular part of the curriculum. An 18-item, matched-subject knowledge test showed significant knowledge gains as a result of the intervention. Further exploration into knowledge-residual and actual behavior change is suggested.

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Alcohol abuse; Awareness; Central business districts; Children; Driver rehabilitation; Drug abuse; Future; Knowledge; Research; Traffic safety; Training

Future research; Inner cities; Intervention; Summer camps

Wheeling (West Virginia)

Wheeling (West Virginia)

Education and Training; Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 21 1993 12:00AM

• ACCIDENT PREDICTION MODELS FOR FREEWAYS
• ASSESSMENT OF RISK MANAGEMENT PROCEDURES AND OBJECTIVES IN STATE DEPARTMENTS OF TRANSPORTATION
• ASSOCIATION OF MEDIAN WIDTH AND HIGHWAY ACCIDENT RATES (WITH DISCUSSION AND CLOSURE)
• COMPARISON OF ACCIDENT RATES USING THE LIKELIHOOD RATIO TESTING TECHNIQUE
• COST-EFFECTIVE DRIVER IMPROVEMENT TREATMENT IN PENNSYLVANIA
• ESTIMATION OF SAFETY AT TWO-WAY STOP-CONTROLLED INTERSECTIONS ON RURAL HIGHWAYS
• EVALUATION OF A NATIONAL TRAFFIC POLICE FORCE
• EVALUATION OF SAFETY IMPACT OF HIGHWAY PROJECTS
• HYDROPLANING AND ROADWAY TORT LIABILITY
• INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE VIRGINIA HABITUAL OFFENDER ACT
• ON THE USE OF ACCIDENT OR CONVICTION COUNTS TO TRIGGER ACTION (WITH DISCUSSION AND CLOSURE)
• REMOVING THE "HIGH" FROM THE HIGHWAYS: THE IMPACT OF VIRGINIA'S EFFORTS TO COMBAT DRUG-RELATED DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE
• STATISTICAL METHODS TO SUPPORT INDUCED EXPOSURE ANALYSES OF TRAFFIC ACCIDENT DATA
• TORT LIABILITY RELATED TO UTILITY POLE ACCIDENTS IN FLORIDA
• USE OF FREEWAY CONFLICT RATES AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO CRASH RATES IN WEAVING SECTION SAFETY ANALYSES