Resources

This collection of tools includes tip sheets and hands-on worksheets to help prevention practitioners better understand the important relationship between cultural competence and reducing disparities.

This resource presents four features of risk and protective factors related to substance misuse: they exist in multiple contexts, are correlated and cumulative, are influential over time, and affect people in different ways.

Stakeholders can work together in many different ways, for many different reasons. This chart presents four levels of collaboration, ranging from simple to complex.

This resource provides an annotated list of data sources that provide information on substance misuse and related behavioral health problems.

To help practitioners determine the impact of overdose-related factors in their communities, this practice-support tool pairs data sources with the specific factors they describe.

This tool offers an overview of the four stages of group development (from Tuckman’s Stages of Development Team Theory), accompanied by tips for maximizing productivity and cohesion, reducing conflict, and steering group members toward long-term success to support leaders in managing group dynamics.

The Mapping Interventions to Different Levels of Risk chart provides examples of prevention interventions adaptable by age and for various populations.

This tool provides information on measures that prevention practitioners and evaluators can use when evaluating programs to reduce substance misuse and promote well-being that includes cultural elements.

Use this template to capture important decisions, document next steps, and improve accountability.

Understanding the cost of evaluations and the realities of the budget can help prevention practitioners focus on the right results.