AN ELEMENTARY-SCHOOL SUBSTANCE-ABUSE PREVENTION PROGRAM - TEACHER ANDADMINISTRATOR PERSPECTIVES

Teachers and administrators from a large, diversified school district participated in a survey of perceived satisfaction, effectiveness, and degree of implementation of Project Pride, a substance abuse preventi on program. As expected, degree of satisfaction with program content w as consistently related to how beneficial and valuable teachers percei ved the program to be for their students. The age appropriateness of m aterials and degree of difficulty in implementing activities were also significantly related to how much students benefitted from the progra m. Neither perceived support of administrators nor teacher participati on in training was related to level of implementation or teacher satis faction. The need to gather teacher and administrator perspectives abo ut substance use prevention programs is discussed, as well as steps to be taken to maximize implementation of prevention curricula in elemen tary schools.