Explores what sustainability looks like in the context of substance misuse prevention and how to prepare a community sustainability plan.

Sustainability planning is the intentional process of looking critically at a community’s current prevention processes and interventions with an eye to identifying and securing the resources needed to maintain positive prevention outcomes. This webinar can serve as a starting for developing useful sustainability plans.

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Audience

State and community-level substance misuse prevention practitioners and other public health professionals.

Learning Objectives

• Define sustainability and related concepts
• List three key steps in effective sustainability planning
• Describe the importance of leveraging partnerships and collaborations as a foundation for sustainability

Training Content

• Pre-planning for Sustainability
  • Explores the meaning of sustainability in the context of prevention
  • Highlights the importance of sustaining both prevention processes and prevention outcomes
  • Explores the role of different stakeholders as potential partners
• Three Sustainability Approaches
  • Increasing community ownership of prevention efforts
  • Changing policies and guidelines to enhance sustainability
  • Focusing on revenue and resources
• Six Steps of Sustainability Planning
  • Step 1. Examining processes and interventions
  • Step 2. Setting sustainability goals
  • Step 3. Selecting fiscal strategies
  • Step 4. Developing a communication plan
  • Step 5. Working the sustainability plan
  • Step 6. Resolving barriers and identifying next steps