Family-Centered Prevention for Rural African American Adolescents

• Translating Research on Economically Distressed Families Into Prevention
  Presented by: Christina Grange, Megan Sperr

• Engaging Rural African American Families Into Research and Prevention Programs
  Presented by: Tracy Anderson, Olive Conyers, Stacey Barnum

• Efficacy of the Strong African American Families-Teen Program
  Presented by: Steven Kogan, Desiree Oliver, Gene Brody
  

Abstracts

Family-Centered Prevention for Rural African American Adolescents

Presented by: Steven Kogan, Tracy Anderson, Christina Grange, Olive Conyers, Stacey Barnum, Desiree Oliver, Megan Sperr, Gene Brody

No developmentally appropriate, culturally sensitive prevention programs have been developed to deter adolescent behavior problems among the several million African American adolescents who live in the rural South. This symposium describe aspects of the Rural African American Families Health (RAAFH) project, a randomized prevention trial funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA 021736). The purpose of RAAFH was to evaluate the efficacy of the Strong African American Families-Teen (SAAF-T) program, a 5 five-session, family skills training program. We describe the development of SAAF-T, engagement processes used to achieve high participation rates, and the long-term efficacy of the program.