 Substance use prevention professionals face a unique set of hurdles in reaching student-athletes. However, the University of Virginia's Athlete Prevention Programming and Leadership Education Model presents an athletics-specific prevention framework with seven prevention "slices": recruitment, expectations and attitudes, education, policies, drug testing, accountability, and referral and counseling.
Included in the APPLE Model are both formal prevention components --?policies, regulations, education, accountability procedures, and consequences of violations -- as well as informal ones, such as?recruitment messages, role models, and unwritten expectations.
Susie Bruce, M.Ed., is Director of the University of Virginia?s Gordie Center,?Director of the NCAA-funded APPLE Training Institutes,?a Faculty Affiliate of Youth-Nex: The Center to Promote Effective Youth Development, and serves on the Executive Board of the Step UP! Bystander Intervention Program. In this month's article, Susie fleshes out the APPLE Model, which provides an athletics-specific prevention framework.
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