Este estudo avaliou efeitos de uma intervenção preventiva sobre a intenção de enfrentamento à violência no namoro e crenças sexistas e homofóbicas entre adolescentes. Participaram 60 adolescentes alocados não randomicamente em duas condições experimentais: CI (N = 27) e CC (N = 33). Enquanto a CC não recebeu nenhuma intervenção, a CI recebeu uma intervenção acerca de gênero, direitos e habilidades de vida, em sete sessões grupais. Os resultados, analisados por meio de sentenças incompletas aplicadas antes e após o programa, apontaram maior redução em crenças sexistas e homofóbicas entre os participantes da CI em comparação aos da CC. Os resultados em intenção de enfrentamento à violência no namoro foram similares entre as condições experimentais, com aumento em intenção de negociação e redução em intenção de resignação e violência. Foi relatada a prática de habilidades interpessoais durante e após o programa, aos cinco meses de follow-up. São discutidas as contribuições e limitações deste estudo.

This study sought to evaluate the cultural adequacy of materials and procedures of the Strengthening Families Program (SFP 10-14-UK) and to identify requirements for its cultural adaptation to Brazilian families. The descriptive study had 33 informants, including external observers, managers, multipliers, facilitators, adolescents, and parents. The data were collected at a pilot application in the Federal District. Direct observation was applied to four intervention groups, with seven meetings of 150 min for families, parents/guardians and adolescents, and mixed nominal groups at the end of the interventions. The results, analyzed through content analysis and descriptive statistics, provided evidence that SFP was perceived as sufficiently appealing, culturally relevant, and partially clear. Recommendations for cultural adaptation of linguistic aspects of the materials and procedures were made, considering the cultural and educational differences of the participant families. Focus on implementation quality, including infrastructure, families’ mobilization and continuous planning, was recommended. Replication studies in other Brazilian regions and analyses of contextual and political dimensions are suggested.

This study analyzed contextual barriers and facilitators in the implementation of Strengthening Families Program (SFP 10–14), Brazilian version, a family-based preventive program focused on the prevention of risk behaviors for adolescent health. SFP 10–14 was implemented between 2016 and 2017 for socioeconomically vulnerable families in four Northeast Brazilian states as a tool of the National Drug Policy. A retrospective qualitative study was carried out in which 26 implementation agents participated. Data from 16 individual interviews and two group interviews were analyzed through content analysis. The most recurrent barriers were the group facilitators’ working conditions, weak municipal administration, precarious infrastructure, inadequate group facilitator training methodologies, low adherence of managers and professionals, and funding scarcity. The conditions highlighted as favorable to the implementation were proper intersectoral coordination, engagement of involved actors, awareness of public agency administrators, municipal management efficacy, and efficient family recruitment strategies. Favorable political contexts, engagement of implementation agents, and intersectoral implementation strategies were identified as central to the success of the implementation of SFP 10–14, especially in the adoption of the intervention, community mobilization, and intervention delivery stages. Further studies should combine contexts, mechanisms, and results for a broad understanding of the effectiveness of this intervention in the public sector.

One of the evidence-based alternatives used in middle- and low-income countries to improve the quality of family relationships with the aim of preventing violence is the Strengthening Families Program (SFP 10-14) (^{Maalouf & Campello, 2014}). In 2013, the Ministry of Health adopted SFP 10-14 for implementation in the basic social protection services of the National Policies of Social Assistance (^{Brasil, 2004}) to strengthen family ties and prevent various harms to adolescent health such as substance abuse and intrafamily violence. In addition, it was expected to positively affect academic success and school engagement in the long-term, as there had been evidence hinting at this (^{Spoth et al. 2008}). This, along with additional evidence related to the program’s positive impact on the improvement of family environment (^{Coatsworth et al., 2015}; ^{Mejía et al., 2015}), long-term reduction of antisocial behavior (^{Spoth et al., 2000}), decrease of risky sexual behavior (^{Spoth et al., 2014}), and long-term delay of use or reduction in substance abuse (^{Foxcroftet al., 2003}; ^{Gates et al., 2006}), indicated SFP 10-14 was a beneficial preventive alternative for families with adolescents.

A Brapep é uma organização sem fins lucrativos que congrega pesquisadores oriundos de diversas áreas do conhecimento, orientados por múltiplas teorias e métodos de pesquisa diversos e sensíveis à complexidade dos problemas de pesquisa no campo. Abarca ainda trabalhadores da saúde, gestores, estudantes e representantes da sociedade civil. Concebe a produção e utilização do conhecimento guiados por uma perspectiva ética, intrinsecamente comprometida com a redução das iniquidades sociais, a proteção dos direitos humanos e valores democráticos e a promoção da justiça social e do desenvolvimento sustentável.

The FERYA (Families Networked and Active) programme is a community- and environment-oriented intervention designed to strengthen the role of family organizations in the prevention of addictive behaviours and related risks, with a focus on leisure-time contexts. This practitioner narrative draws on qualitative and quantitative information collected during the programme’s implementation in several Spanish regions between 2021 and 2024. The article examines key obstacles faced by family organizations when acting as agents of community prevention, including limitations in organizational capacity, leadership, sustained participation, evidence-based prevention knowledge, and external institutional support. The findings highlight both the potential of family organizations to contribute to community and environmental prevention and the structural conditions that constrain their long-term engagement. This experience illustrates the complexity of implementing bottom-up, systemic, multicomponent prevention approaches and emphasizes the relevance of capacity building, co-production with professionals, and supportive policy environments to enhance the sustainability of community-based prevention initiatives.