Resources

This tool provides prevention practitioners with practical tips for connecting with and involving prescribers in prescriber education programs to prevent opioid misuse.

This resource presents a starting point for ensuring the cultural competence of your collaborative efforts.

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.