Gender-Specific Substance Prevention Programming:

Abstract

A brief overview and history of the Female Adolescent Initiative, a program funded by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, is given. Findings from selected programs and a synthetic summary of what the program interventionists learned are presented. The authors use the results from these programs to develop a framework to guide the next generation of scholars who focus on gender-specific substance abuse prevention and provide specific suggestions for designing the next generation of gender-specific programs.