Program Diffusion

The United States

• Columbia University, Laurie Miller, Principal Investigator (PI). The BASIC programs and Dina Dinosaur curriculum are being used with depressed and drug-abusing mothers who are living in shelters with their preschool children.

• Delaware State Department of Services for Children, Youth and Families—Kindergarten to Grade 3, Early Intervention Program, Nancy Pearsall, Program Manager, and Julien Taplin, Director, Department of Services for Children, Youth and Families. The early childhood and school-age BASIC programs, Dina Dinosaur curriculum, and teacher training programs are being evaluated as school-based interventions with volunteer high-risk families whose children show signs of aggression.

• Fast Track Prevention Program, John Coie, PI. Approximately 40 percent of the videotapes from BASIC were used as part of the parent training for the first- and second-grade curriculums.

• Johns Hopkins Prevention Center, Shep Kellam, PI. The school-age BASIC program was abbreviated and used as a brief 4-session prevention intervention for parents in 10 schools.

• Oregon Research Institute, Toni Biglan, PI. The BASIC programs were translated into Spanish and are being used as a 12-session prevention intervention for Spanish-speaking migrant workers in Hood River. Ted Taylor, of the Oregon Research Institute, is undertaking a randomized study whereby he is comparing classrooms that deliver the parent, teacher, and child training programs with control classrooms. All children in the classrooms received the Dinosaur classroom curriculum whereas children with high-risk behaviors (high rates of aggression) will be identified and their parents will be offered the parent program.

• Rush University, School of Nursing, Debra Gross, PI. The BASIC programs have been evaluated as a 12-session prevention intervention for training high-risk parents of toddlers and daycare providers in Chicago daycare centers (see Gross, Fogg, and Tucker, 1995; Gross et al., 1999).

• University of Massachusetts, David Arnold, PI. The BASIC and teacher training programs are being used as part of a prevention training program for Head Start parents and teachers.

• University of Minnesota, Michael Bloomquist, PI. The school-age BASIC program and Dina Dinosaur curriculum are being researched as a drug abuse prevention program for high-risk children ages 6 to 8.

• University of Minnesota, Tom Kratchowell, PI. The BASIC programs are being used as a self-administered prevention training program for parents and teachers.

• Lakehead Regional Family Center, Ontario, Canada, Ted Taylor, PI. The BASIC programs were compared with traditional mental health services in a randomized trial (Taylor et al., 1998).

• Tromso and Trondheim, Norway, Professor Willy Tore March, PI. March and colleagues are undertaking a randomized study in which children who have been diagnosed as having oppositional defiant disorder or conduct disorder will be identified and offered the "pull out" Dina Dinosaur child treatment program and the parent intervention.

• Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, England, Jonathan Hill, Professor. The BASIC programs are being used as a treatment program for low-income families with children diagnosed with conduct disorders.

• C'Mon Everybody, Sheffield, England, John Rylance and Geoff Evans, Directors. The BASIC programs and Dina Dinosaur curriculum are being offered in schools for families with children with conduct problems.

• Family Nurturing Network, Oxford, England, Ivanna Klimes, Director. The BASIC programs and Dinosaur curriculum are being researched for use with high-risk parents and children.

• Maudsley Psychiatric Hospital, London, England, Stephen Scott, PI. The BASIC programs have been evaluated as a treatment program for low-income mothers with children diagnosed with conduct disorders and have replicated program effects (Scott, 1999). A study is currently under way to evaluate the training program as part of a schoolwide prevention intervention.

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The Incredible Years Training Series	Juvenile Justice Bulletin • June 2000