The SAAF–T program consisted of five consecutive meetings held at community facilities; it included separate caregiver and adolescent skill-building curricula and a family curriculum. Each meeting included separate 1-hour concurrent training sessions for caregivers and adolescents, followed by a 1-hour joint caregiver-adolescent session during which families practiced the skills they learned in the separate sessions. Thus, families received 10 hours of prevention programming. Concurrently with the implementation of SAAF–T, the control group participated in a family-centered intervention designed to promote healthful behaviors among adolescents by encouraging good nutrition, exercise, and informed consumer behavior. The school-based FUEL™ program (Comprehensive Health Education Foundation; Seattle, Washington) was adapted into the five-session family skills format used in SAAF–T. The result was a program structurally similar to SAAF–T that was named FUEL for Families (FF). African American intervention leaders were trained to present SAAF–T and FF, both of which were manualized. Fidelity of intervention delivery was confirmed using established procedures (Fisher, Fisher, Bryan, & Misovich, 2002).
