Who Says Aggressors, Victims, and Bystanders (AVB) Is Effective?

"A beautifully organized, teacher friendly, well-developed 12 session curriculum . . . . (It is) part of Teenage Health Teaching Modules, a well evaluated, comprehensive health program which also includes material on drugs and alcohol."
--Safe Schools, Safe Students: A Guide to Violence Prevention Strategies, Drug Strategies, 1998 (AVB received a straight-A rating for program quality, developmental appropriateness, and cost.) Web site:

The U.S. Department of Education's Safe, Disciplined, and Drug-Free Schools Expert Panel that was charged to identify programs that have proven their effectiveness when judged against rigorous criteria designated AVB as a "promising program" in January 2001.

The U.S. Department of Education and U.S. Department of Justice's 1998 Annual Report on School Safety selected AVB as a "demonstrated program to reduce aggression and fighting."

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's September 2000 publication Best Practices of Youth Violence Prevention: A Sourcebook for Community Action lists AVB as a best practice for adolescent violence prevention.

Designated one of two “programs of particular interest” in Bullying Prevention Is Crime Prevention, by Fight Crimes: Invest in Kids.

Peacing it Together, A Violence Prevention Resource for Illinois Schools selected AVB as a "recommended" program with "positive outcome data from well-designed studies." Peacing it Together is a publication of the Illinois Center for Violence Prevention.

New Jersey Safe and Drug-Free Schools listed AVB as "an effective violence prevention program" in its SourceBook of Drug and Violence Prevention Programs for Children and Adolescents.

Thirteen/WNET (New York City's Public Broadcating television station) selected AVB as one of the "outstanding examples of violence prevention curricula" and featured AVB in Peaceful Solutions, a video series and teacher's guide profiling best violence prevention best practices in the classroom.

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