Linking Lives: Building Quality Parent Components for School-Based Health Programs in Middle Schools

Parent intervention consists of mothers attending two, 2.5 hour-long, face-to-face sessions at the school during which they are given an intervention manual, two homework assignments, and a manual for their adolescent. Parents also receive two booster telephone calls approximately one-month and six-months after completing the intervention. As part of the comparison condition, school-based interventions for adolescents also consist of two, 2.5 hour-long, face-to-face sessions at schools during which they complete either the Project TNT intervention for preventing tobacco use or the Making a Difference intervention for reducing sexual risk behavior.