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This tool guides prevention planners in using logic models to address social determinants of health (SDoH) in substance use prevention. It offers a step-by-step process for incorporating factors like housing instability into models, detailing resources, activities, outcomes, and impacts to create more comprehensive and effective prevention strategies.
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This resource offers best practices for planning, implementing, and evaluating data dashboards in substance misuse prevention. It covers defining scope, understanding audience needs, choosing technology, selecting data sources, incorporating user-friendly design, and evaluating the dashboard’s effectiveness to support data-driven decision-making and community impact.
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This tool serves as a guide for substance misuse professionals, presenting 26 interventions designed to prevent adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and reduce their negative health impacts.
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This guide supports strategic prevention planning for American Indian and Alaska Native communities by identifying culturally informed programs that reduce substance misuse and promote mental health. It includes 85 programs evaluated using both Western and Indigenous methods, categorized by documented outcomes, target populations, and settings to help tribes select effective, culturally responsive interventions.
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This tool explores how the housing sector and prevention professionals can collaborate to address substance misuse and housing instability. It covers key housing paradigms, the complex relationship between housing and substance use, and practical ways to partner with housing organizations to improve community health and reduce risk factors related to substance misuse.
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Discover how Kamiah, Idaho, transformed into a prevention-focused community through the Upriver Youth Leadership Council (UYLC). This tool highlights how UYLC engaged youth, built partnerships, and implemented strategies across the substance use continuum, driving a community-wide culture of prevention and recovery. Explore actionable insights and best practices for fostering a holistic, prevention-focused environment.
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This tool explores how multiple epidemics, influenced by environmental factors, interact to exacerbate health issues like substance misuse. Emphasizing collaboration and environmental context, this resource delves into the implications for substance use disorder (SUD) prevention and offers prevention professionals strategies for developing a syndemic-informed approach to improve community health outcomes.
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This toolkit guides prevention practitioners in establishing and sustaining data workgroups essential for data-informed decision-making. These workgroups, integral to SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework, locate, analyze, and disseminate crucial substance misuse data.
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This toolkit equips prevention practitioners with the tools and guidance needed to conduct effective focus groups, fostering open dialogue, and gathering valuable insights from diverse stakeholders. By integrating focus groups throughout the prevention process and developing clear protocols, practitioners can tailor discussions to address specific community needs and inform evidence-based strategies.
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This tool provides insights for navigating the complexities of group collaboration in prevention efforts. Drawing from the Stages of Development Team Theory, it offers a roadmap for understanding and managing group dynamics across four crucial stages: Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing. From fostering trust and defining goals to delegating tasks and celebrating successes, this resource equips leaders with practical strategies to maximize productivity, cohesion, and long-term success within coalitions.
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This comprehensive resource offers a detailed understanding of stakeholders in early childhood education and their role in supporting prevention efforts. Covering prenatal care through elementary school years, it highlights primary and secondary partners, provides insights on collaboration, and emphasizes the importance of parental involvement, serving as a valuable tool for informed prevention planning and community engagement.
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This interactive, digital toolkit is designed to educate SAMHSA grantees and prevention professionals on the social determinants of health (SDOH) and how they impact the risk of substance use. Leveraging up-to-date scholarly research and aligned with HHS’s five core domains, the toolkit offers an in-depth examination of the specific SDOH linked to substance misuse outcomes.
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Recognizing the vital role prescribers play in mitigating prescription opioid misuse, this resource explores the importance of educating prescribers on safe opioid prescribing practices, outlines key goals for prescriber education, and provides foundation information that prevention professionals need to advocate for and facilitate prescriber education in their communities.
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Aimed at demystifying the intricacies of primary care, this glossary defines key terms and concepts within primary care, shedding light on legislative influences, funding mechanisms, provider organizations, and payment systems.
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The Institute of Medicine's continuum of care categorizes behavioral health services into four areas: promotion, prevention, treatment, and recovery. This resource explores how these services align, offering support from promoting wellness to aiding in long-term recovery. It provides a structured framework for addressing substance misuse across various stages of care, ensuring comprehensive support for individuals and communities.
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This resource offers guidance for prevention professionals addressing prescription opioid misuse. It helps practitioners understand state-specific regulations, educational requirements, and collaboration opportunities to enhance prescriber education programs. By answering key questions such as who can prescribe opioids in your state and what resources are available, this tool equips professionals to collaborate effectively with primary care.
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This tool can help teams assess the degree to which member activities align with the collaboration’s overall purpose and goals.
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This activity can help grantees better understand the skills and expertise that current partners bring to the prevention table.
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This worksheet helps prevention teams in assessing their readiness to engage in collaboration.
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This worksheet offers a template for creating a simple memorandum of agreement.
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This worksheet helps grantees successfully match workgroup activities with member interests and skills.
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This activity helps grantees identify and prioritize the knowledge and training needs of collaboration partners.
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This worksheet helps grantees map out and track who, when, and how to reach out to potential partners.
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This worksheet offers questions grantees can ask themselves or others on their team to facilitate a discussion about membership.
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This worksheet helps grantees identify and recruit new partners through a health equity lens.
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