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The Great Intervention

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For the most part, The GREAT intervention is taught to the participants how it was designed by the law enforcement officers who created the program. In order to determine if the GREAT program is being implemented as designed, interviews, observations, and surveys must be conducted by the personnel from the Department of Justice. First, the population that the program targeted are students in elementary and middle school, which is the group of individuals that often participate in the GREAT intervention. Also, the classrooms that are part of the intervention are selected by the school’s administrators and the students need to get permission from their parents before participating. Both these steps are conducted immediately by both the school’s staff and students. Furthermore, all of the thirteen lessons of the intervention are taught by the certified GREAT instructors and they are all taught within one hour just as planned. All of the instructors took part in all of the training courses needed to teach this intervention effectively and accurately. A major component of this program is to have teachers facilitate the program with the GREAT instructors. When teachers are involved during the GREAT lectures, the lessons are conducted more smoothly, students are more attentive to the context of the lectures, and the participants are more respectful towards the instructors (Esbensen et al., 2011). In the classes that do not have the full support and attention of the teachers, the

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