Resources

"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 presentation explores the relationship of trauma to substance misuse use, and the importance of considering trauma and its effects when developing and implementing prevention programs.

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.

Offers a brief introduction to prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs), highlighting how practitioners can use PDMP data to prevent prescription drug misuse in their states and communities.

Learn how to use process evaluation to determine if an intervention was implemented as planned and successfully reached the target population.

This tool highlights considerations for applying the Prevention Code of Ethics to your organization’s social media activities.

Learn about an effective framework for preventing alcohol use and suicide in Native American youth.