Guiding Good Choices® Results and Recognition
Program Results
Sustainable program effects!
In a 4-year follow-up study, the Guiding Good Choices program was shown to:
- reduce current alcohol use by 40.6%
- significantly reduce the rates of initiation for marijuana and drunkenness.
In other clinical studies,* the Guiding Good Choices program has been shown to:
- reduce the likelihood that experimental users will advance to heavier use by 54%
- increase the likelihood that non-users will remain drug-free by 26%
- reduce the likelihood that young people will commit delinquent acts.
In a randomized clinical trial, the program was found to significantly reduce the rate at which adolescents develop depression. For one of the symptoms of depression -- feelings of worthlessness and inferiority -- risk reduction was as high as 28%. The program was also found to significantly slow the typical rate at which multiple substance use (alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs) increases during adolescence.**
*At 2- or 4-year follow-up compared to a control group of children whose parents did not participate in the program. Source: The original studies were published in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. Specific citations are available upon request.
**Program tested under its previous name, Preparing for the Drug-Free Years® (PDFY). Mason, W.A., Kosterman, R., Hawkins, J.D., Haggerty, K.P., Spoth, R.L., Redmond, C., (2007). Influence of a Family-Focused Substance Use Preventive Intervention on Growth in Adolescent Depressive Symptoms. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 17(3), 541-564.
NIDA Reports Families That Care Yields Measurable Benefit-Cost Ratio 
Program Recognition
NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED:
- Model Program (the highest possible rating)
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
- Perfect score -- program materials
SAMHSA's National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP)
- Near perfect score -- dissemination
3.5 points out of 4 in SAMHSA's National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP)
- Exemplary 1 Program (the highest possible rating)
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
- Promising Program
Department of Education's Expert Panel, Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program
- Promising Program
University of Colorado's Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence
- Research-based program with positive results
National Institute on Drug Abuse
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