Lions Quest Skills for Adolescence (SFA)
Problems addressed
Effectiveness

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No Effect

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Description

This is a universal prevention program for high-school adolescents aimed at promoting social and emotional learning.
The program’s components have the following objectives:
1) Supporting the development of responsible, healthy, and drug-free adolescents through interlocution between the school, the community, and the family;
2) Helping them learn and apply their personal, social, employability, and school skills to solve problems and set and achieve goals;
3) Engaging them, in collaboration with adults, in solving real-life problems and making meaningful contributions to the school and community;
4) Reinforcing positive values, such as honesty, responsibility, self-discipline, healthy living, commitment to family, and respect for others; and
5) Promoting an understanding and appreciation of diversity in the classroom, school, and wider community.

Impact evaluations

An impact evaluation showed that the students who took part in the program had a statistically significant reduction in cannabis consumption and an increase in the ability to refuse cannabis and alcohol, compared to the students in the control group, who did not receive the intervention. However, no significant effect was observed on the consumption of alcohol, cigarettes, and other drugs, nor on the skills to refuse tobacco and cocaine [1].

Bibliographic reference

[1] Eisen, M., Zellman, G. L., Murray, D. M. (2003). Evaluating the Lions–Quest ‘Skills for Adolescence’ Drug Education Program: Second-Year Behavior Outcomes. Addictive Behaviors 28(5):883–97. https://www.lions-quest.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/SecondYearBehavi…

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