Taking Responsible Actions in Life Evaluation

The TRAIL program is comprised of a multi-tier system of strategies: Universal strategies impact the entire school via a school-wide social norms marketing campaign and school-climate change activities. School staff trainings and professional development activities focus on enhancing protective factors for students to reduce the effects of stressful life events and trauma, improving classroom management, linking students to resources, and improving the overall school climate for students and staff. Targeted strategies include an in-school curriculum and service learning component, which impact all ninth grade students at the intervention high schools and all eighth grade students at the intervention middle schools. Intensive strategies are intended for a subset of youth and their caregivers with identified increased risk-factors, and they include peer mentoring, after-school running/positive youth development programming, summer programming, and parent workshop support.