Child–Parent Psychotherapy

This is a treatment for children from 0 to 5 years old exposed to traumatic situations and their families. The objective is to strengthen the relationship between adult caregivers and children for the restructuring and protection of the child’s mental health, taking into consideration contextual factors, problematic behaviors, and maladaptive beliefs of family members.

National Plan for Community Surveillance by Quadrants

This is a plan implemented by the Colombian National Police starting in 2010 that included an extensive training program for more than 9,000 police officers to improve interpersonal skills and apply new patrolling protocols.
The plan divided each city into small geographic areas (quadrants), assigned six policemen to each, established new policing and patrolling protocols that involved greater contact with the community, and held the policemen responsible for whatever happened in their quadrant in terms of security incidents.

Specialized Commissariats for Women’s Care (Brazil)

These are specialized units within the Brazilian Investigative Police (Civil Police), which carry out actions to prevent, protect, and investigate crimes of domestic violence and sexual violence against women.
Actions include filing a police report, requesting urgent protection measures to the judge in cases of domestic and family violence against women, and investigating the crimes.

Friends for Youth 1 to 1 Mentoring

This is a tutoring program for children and adolescents from 8 to 17 years of age at risk of dropping out of school or of academic failure due to personal, family and/or community problems. The objective is to reduce risk factors affecting the beneficiaries, improve social and emotional and vocational skills, strengthen community ties, and provide opportunities for growth even in vulnerable situations.

The Children's Aid Society Carrera Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program (CAS-Carrera)

This is a program to prevent pregnancy and other risky behaviors in adolescence. The program seeks to help adolescent girls break the cycle of poverty that affects multiple aspects of their development.
Adopting a holistic approach, it starts working with girls in elementary school (at age 10 or 11) and follows them through to completion of secondary school and admission to university.

Parenting Through Change (PTC; GenerationPMTO Group)

This is a parental training group intervention for parents with children from 2 to 18 years old with behavioral problems, conduct disorders, oppositional defiant disorder, depression, anxiety, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, psychoactive substance use, involvement in crime, and poor school performance. The objective is to strengthen parenting skills and the bond between parents and children, and to reduce and prevent inappropriate and problematic behaviors among children.

Midwestern Prevention Project (MPP)

This is a drug abuse prevention program for children and adolescents between 10 and 14 years of age. The objective is to prevent or reduce the consumption of substances that are considered a “gateway” (alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis).
It applies different strategies in an attempt to cover the various areas that influence the lives of the participants, such as school, family, community, and mass media, which requires coordinated actions and communication among various segments: school principals, teachers, parents, and student leaders.

Procedural Justice Training Program (Seattle Police Department)

This is a procedural justice program to train police officers at a high risk of interacting negatively with civilians. The goal is to reduce the frequency at which police actions are considered unfair or inappropriate.
The training seeks to slow down police officers’ reaction and improve their information processing during encounters with citizens.
The program has two components:
1) Reporting, in which the inappropriate interactions of selected officers are tracked; and