Early Risers 'Skills for Success' Program
Problems addressed
Externalizing behaviors/problems
Low educational/academic performance
Low parental skills
Low social–emotional competences
Effectiveness

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Promising

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Life periods served
Children (4 to 13 years)
Where the program was applied
Education establishment
Country of application
United States
Description

This is a high-intensity, multi-component prevention program to prevent the development of problematic behaviors in children in social vulnerability, improving their social and school skills while intervening in their family environment.
The intervention model is structured into six components:
1) Education and training for parents;
2) Proactive consultation between parents and school;
3) Social skills training for children and strategic peer participation;
4) Educational enrichment activities/reading;
5) Family support, consultation, and brief interventions to deal with stress;
6) Contingency management for managing aggressive and disruptive behavior.

Impact evaluations

An impact evaluation showed that participation in the program was associated with statistically significant effects on children’s academic competence and social skills, as well as on adults’ parenting skills, compared to the control group after the three-year follow-up period. However, there was no significant difference between the groups in aggressive behavior [1].

Bibliographic reference

[1] August, G. J., Hektner, J. M., Egan, E. A., Realmuto, G. M. & Bloomquist, M. L. (2002). The early risers longitudinal prevention trial: Examination of 3-year outcomes in aggressive children with intent-to-treat and as-intended analyses. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors : Journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors, 16(4 (Suppl)), S27-39. https://doi.org/10.1037/0893-164X.16.4S.S27

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