Tip Sheets

Glossary

Links to General Prevention Planning Sites

• Building a Successful Prevention Program
  http://www.open.org/~westcapt/

  This site, developed and maintained by the Western Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (Western CAPT), describes a seven-step model for prevention that begins with Community Readiness and Mobilization and proceeds to Needs Assessment, Prioritizing, Resource Assessment, Targeting Efforts, Best Practices, and Evaluation.

• CDC Programs That Work
  http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dash/rtc/index.htm

  In response to requests from schools for effective prevention programs, the Division of Adolescent and School Health at the CDC developed the Programs that Work (PTW) project to help educators identify curricula that effectively reduce sexual risk behaviors that contribute to HIV and other STD infections and unintended pregnancy and tobacco-use behavior. The purpose of PTW is to identify curricula with credible evidence of effectiveness in reducing health risk behaviors among young people, and provide information and training for interested educators from state and local education agencies, departments of health, and national nongovernmental organizations.

• Center for Mental Health in Schools
  http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu

  Operating under the auspices of the University of California at Los Angeles School Mental Health Project, the Center for Mental Health in Schools is one of the two national training and technical assistance centers focused on mental health in schools; the other center is at the University of Maryland at Baltimore. The Center focuses on advancing efforts designed to plan, implement, and evaluate school-based programs; analyzing and discussing current programs and needs; demonstrating the value of school-university collaboration; and developing and evaluating interventions

• Blueprints for Violence Prevention
  http://www.colorado.edu/cspv/blueprints/

  The Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of Colorado at Boulder, with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Justice, designed and launched Blueprints for Violence Prevention to identify and replicate violence prevention programs that are effective. The project identifies model and promising prevention and intervention programs that meet strict scientific standards of program effectiveness. These interventions have been summarized in a series of "blueprints" which describe the programs' theoretical rationales, core components, evaluation designs and results, and practical implementation experiences across multiple sites.

• Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) Model Programs
  http://www.samhsa.gov/centers/csap/modelprograms/default.htm

  CSAP's Model Programs Website provides access to materials on how to implement and evaluate prevention programs, links to numerous prevention and funding resources, and many free publications on the latest in science-based substance abuse prevention.

• Community Tool Box
  http://ctb.ukans.edu/

  The Community ToolBox website, created by the University of Kansas Work Group on Health Promotion and Community Development and AHEC/Community Partners in Amherst, Massachusetts, contains numerous "how-to tools" designed to help practitioners with the different tasks necessary for community health and development. There are sections on leadership, needs assessment, community assessment, advocacy, grant writing, and evaluation, including an overview of the strategic planning process.

• CSAP's Decision Support System for Substance Abuse Prevention
  http://www.preventiondss.org

  This site presents a seven-step model for prevention based on CSAP's logic model for strategic planning, implementation, and evaluation of prevention programs. The logic model is presented as a circular (recursive) process beginning at Assess Needs and progressing through Develop Capacity, Select Programs, Implement Programs, Evaluate Programs, Report Programs, and Get Technical Assistance and Training.

• Drug Information and Decision Support (DIADS) Assessment
  http://education.indiana.edu/cas/diads/diads.html

  Developed by the Center for Adolescent Studies at Indiana University, this brief assessment tool is designed to help prevention planners develop and implement comprehensive programs that will work in their schools. By assessing what a school is currently doing to prevent drug abuse and levels of support for these activities, DIADS can determine a given program's chance of success.

• SDFS Exemplary and Promising Programs
  http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osdfs/programs.html

  The Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program (SDFS) at the U.S. Department of Education has used an expert panel process to identify programs that should be promoted nationally as promising and exemplary. A 15-member Expert Panel oversaw a valid and reliable process for identifying effective school-based programs that promote healthy students and safe, disciplined, and drug-free schools. Through this process, the panel identified nine exemplary and thirty-three promising programs. The Expert Panel initiative is a way of enhancing programs aimed at developing the health and well being of youth by making schools and communities aware of programs that have proven their effectiveness when judged against rigorous criteria.