Brief Report: The Adaptation of Project Northland for Urban Youth

Abstract

The information gained from this trial, including the process of adaptation of prevention strategies, will be beneficial for alcohol-use prevention efforts within diverse urban communities across the country.

Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Etiology of Alcohol Use Among Urban Adolescents

“…Data were part of a group-randomized controlled trial of an alcohol preventive intervention (Komro et al, 2004b(Komro et al, , 2008. Youth in 61 public schools in Chicago participated.…”

A Longitudinal Examination of the Relationship between Physical Aggression and Violent Victimization among Urban Minority Chicago Youth and Young Adults

“…Data were derived from Project Northland Chicago (PNC), a group-based randomized trial that tested the efficacy of an alcohol preventive program for multi-ethnic urban youth [23,24]. A cohort of youth enrolled in 61 public schools in Chicago participated in the study ( (1) provides an illustration of the prevalence of physical aggression, violent victimization, and the overlap of physical aggression and violent victimization.…”

Using social marketing to create communities for our children and adolescents that do not model and encourage drinking

“…In a subsequent study, the Project Northland team investigated the effectiveness of the intervention in urban, low-income and multi-ethnic communities in Chicago (US) (Komro et al, 2008(Komro et al, , 2004. Project Northland Chicago (PNC) used similar strategies to the original Project Northland, tailored to the context of these communities.…”