Strengthening Families and PROSPER receive national awards
The Strengthening Families Program for Parents and Youth 10-14 (SFP 10-14) and PROSPER (PROmoting School-community-university Partnerships to Enhance Resilience) now are part of the National 4-H Programs of Distinction database. Programs of Distinction is a searchable Web-based database containing descriptions of high quality youth development programs in communities across the United States.
09-06

Prevention Programs for Young Rural Teens Can Reduce Methamphetamine Abuse Years Late
National Institute on Drug Abuse
09-4-06
New research supported in part by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health, shows that prevention programs conducted in middle school can reduce methamphetamine abuse among rural adolescents years later.

ISU research shows Extension programs produce long-term prevention of meth use
Iowa State University
09-3-06
Iowa State University research programs designed to prevent destructive behaviors among youth had been proven to be effective in reducing alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use. You can now add methamphetamine to that list according to new results from two studies of more than 1,300 students from rural Iowa public schools by researchers from Partnerships in Prevention Science at Iowa State, working with ISU Extension.

ISU Extension research programs are reducing meth, marijuana use across state
Iowa State University
06-26-06
Community programs coordinated through an Iowa State institute and ISU Extension have curbed adolescent marijuana use in participating Iowa communities to half that of students elsewhere in the state.

Strengthening Families Program 10-14 Added to National Database
Iowa State University
06-8-06
The Strengthening Families Program for Parents and Youth 10-14 (SFP 10-14) now is part of the National 4-H Programs of Distinction database.  Programs of Distinction is a searchable Web-based database containing descriptions of high quality youth development programs in communities across the United States. It is supported by the 4-H system partners and coordinated through National 4-H Headquarters and the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES).

Amy and Roger Lowe, of Estherville, Iowa have seen the benefits of the Strengthening Families program first hand. “I would recommend this program to anyone,” Amy Lowe said. The Lowes and their twin children participated in the Strengthening Families program in 2000. "The Strengthening Families program was a great experience for our entire family. It opened up communications with our family and helped us to talk openly about what was going on around us. The program provided helpful suggestions on discipline and making rules that work,” Amy Lowe said.
Extension Connection Newsletter, Summer 2005