Resources

Successful collaboration requires careful maintenance and occasional compromise. This tool presents some tips for keeping your collaboration healthy over time.

This tool offers some practical tips for convening meetings that are not only productive but also enjoyable.

This resource provides tips for storing and recording archival data and understanding the quality of the data you collect.

This tool presents some tried-and-true tips from seasoned prevention practitioners on “getting to yes.”

Access the executive summary overview of protective factors associated with substance use and misuse, and strategies that have been shown to be effective in addressing these factors among boys and young men of color.

"Readiness” describes the degree to which a community is willing and prepared to address prevention needs. This resource provides a list of tools that practitioners working to prevent substance misuse can use to assess their community’s readiness to address identified needs, and to prioritize those needs accordingly.

This resource defines these two approaches to evaluation and describes some benefits of the latter.

Understanding how social marketing works can help you use these techniques to support prevention efforts in your community.

This tool offers prevention practitioners an introduction to a public health approach called harm reduction. It describes how harm reduction approaches are being used to prevent the consequences of opioid misuse and explores the role of prevention practitioners in supporting these approaches.

This tool is designed to support prevention practitioners in using International Classification of Disease (ICD) codes to understand and describe the impact of opioid overdose in their communities.