Preventing Substance Abuse & Crime in Special Populations

描述（由申请人提供）：至少有750万智力残疾（ID）的人，大多数是轻度残疾，生活在美国。随着我们的服务提供系统的发展，重点已经从提供基于智商的服务，到一个分类系统，集中在功能能力，确定最低限度的外部支持所需的人与ID（即，智力发育迟缓的人，靠自己生存。这种转变的意外后果是，许多轻度和中度ID的年轻人面临着更大的风险。由于缺乏社会能力、意识和社会支持，他们参与可能导致伤害的行为和活动的风险增加（例如，药物滥用、犯罪）。第二阶段将在第一阶段R-SAC原型开发期间完成的工作的基础上扩大工作范围（即，拒绝物质，酒精，犯罪），并创建一个系列的三个互动DVD节目的年轻人与轻度和中度智力残疾（ID）。根据性别和内容掌握量身定制，重复访问计划将解决患有ID的年轻人面临的问题和担忧，他们正在发展成为自主公民，与你和我一样拥有相同的权利和风险。R-SAC计划系列，商业名称为1）远离伤害的方式：避免酒精滥用的策略; 2）远离伤害的方式：避免物质滥用的策略; 3）远离伤害的方式：避免犯罪的战略和犯罪的人，将1）提供有关法律的方面的知识和与酗酒，非法物质，和反社会或犯罪行为; 2）教观察策略（即，Stop-Look-Listen）使用特定于每个程序焦点的示例（例如，物质-方案一;酒精-方案二;反社会行为-程序三）; 3）使用特定于该程序的内容的例子来模拟一系列的回避和拒绝策略，最后，4）提供实践场景，要求程序用户整合知识和观察技能，并成功地将拒绝策略应用于实时视频为基础的屏幕模拟，描绘了从事有害活动的同伴压力。每个最终的R-SAC互动产品（即，三个交互式DVD）将分支为三个完整节目之一（即，男性方案、女性方案、逐步降低的补救方案）。每个分支的大小与我们的原型程序（671.5 MB）差不多，或者稍大一些，典型的CD-ROM大约有700 MB。因此，最终产品将作为混合PC/Mac程序制作，安装在DVD-ROM上，为轻度和中度ID的程序用户创建真正的自我指导，独立的学习体验。由FocusScience and Technology进行的利基分析表明，这种类型的程序系列具有高社会价值，高兴趣，低竞争和高销售潜力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): At least 7.5 million people with intellectual disabilities (ID) most with mild disabilities, live in the U.S. As our service delivery system evolves, emphasis has shifted from providing services based on I.Q., to a classification system focused on functional ability identifying the minimum external supports necessary for people with ID (i.e., mental retardation) to survive on their own. The unintended consequence of this shift is that many young adults with mild and moderate ID are at increased risk of falling through the cracks. Due to a lack of social competency, awareness, and social support, they are at increased risk of involvement in behaviors and activities that could result in harm (e.g., substance abuse, crime). Substance abuse and crime prevention training has not been adequately addressed for this vulnerable population Phase II will expand on the work accomplished during development of the Phase I R-SAC prototype (i.e., Refuse-Substance, Alcohol, Crime), and create a series of three interactive DVD programs for young adults with mild and moderate intellectual disabilities (ID). Tailored by sex and content mastery, the repeat-visit programs will address issues and concerns faced by young adults with ID, who are developing into autonomous citizens, with the same rights and risks as you and I. The R-SAC program series, commercially titled 1) Staying Out of Harm's Way: Strategies for Avoiding Alcohol Misuse; 2) Staying Out of Harm's Way: Strategies for Avoiding Substance Abuse; and 3) Staying Out of Harm's Way: Strategies for Avoiding Crimes and the People who Commit Them, will 1) provide knowledge about legal aspects and potential harm related to alcohol abuse, illicit substances, and antisocial or criminal behavior; 2) teach an observation strategy (i.e., Stop-Look-Listen) using examples specific to each program's focus (e.g., substances-program one; alcohol- program two; antisocial behavior-program three); 3) model an array of avoidance and refusal strategies using examples specific to that program's content, and finally, 4) provide practice scenarios, requiring program users to integrate knowledge and observation skills and successfully apply refusal strategies to real-time video-based on-screen simulations portraying peer pressure to engage in harmful activities. Each of the final R-SAC interactive products (i.e., three interactive DVDs) will branch into one of three complete programs (i.e., male program, female program, step-down remedial program). Each branch will be approximately the size of our prototype program (671.5 MB) or slightly larger, and the typical CD-ROM holds about 700 MB. As such, the final products will be produced as hybrid PC/Mac programs, housed on DVD- ROM, creating a truly self-directed, stand-alone learning experience appropriate for program users with mild and moderate ID. A niche analysis, conducted by Foresight Science and Technology, indicates high social value, high interest, low competition, and high sales potentials for a program series of this type.