KEEP SAFE (ADDED)
Program/Intervention Name
Category
Child Mental Health - externalizing, Family Support and Placement Stabilization Programs, Sexual Behavior Problems in Adolescents and Children, Social/emotional functioning, Child Mental Health - internalizing, Kinship Support Services
Program/Intervention Description
KEEP SAFE (formerly known as Middle School Success)is a multicomponent intervention aimed at building prosocial skills and promoting placement stability among youths in foster care. The goals of the programare to prevent delinquency and substance abuse. The intervention targets girls in foster care transitioning from elementary school to middle school.
Intervention Target Population Identified (Age Group)
6-12, 13-17
Program Goals/Outcomes
Internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors, Prosocial behavior, Placement stability, Substance use, Health-risking sexual behavior, Small to moderate mediating effects of prosocial, internalizing, and externalizing behaviors
QIC Target Group
Pre -Target 1
QIC Adoption/Guardianship Relevance Levels
LEVEL 4: Foster Care
QIC level of Evidence
LEVEL 4: Promising Practice
Intervention Web Site/URL
Contact Person/Purveyor
Agency/Affiliation
Contact Email
Contact Phone
External Links (Registry/Other Catalog)
- Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development: www.blueprintsprograms.com/factSheet.php?pid=a79e9a409bded1928e5dad9765d53e7bce91d555
- Office of Justice Programs: www.crimesolutions.gov/ProgramDetails.aspx?ID=372
- Child Trends: www.childtrends.org/?programs=keep-program
