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Institute Publications
This primer provides anti-drug coalitions clear guidelines for defining their communities and assessing the real needs within the community. This information will enable your coalition to minimize duplication of effort, understand existing resources and implement practices and policies to reduce substance abuse within the community.
This primer provides clear guidelines to help your coalition build the capacity needed to develop and carry out a comprehensive community plan to reduce substance abuse rates. It describes the components of a coherent plan related to your coalition’s strategies and priorities for capacity building.
This primer provides clear guidelines for assisting your coalition to develop the products that you need to carry out a comprehensive community plan to reduce substance abuse rates. It also helps you understand the dynamic planning process needed for coalition work.
This primer assists your coalition in the implementation of comprehensive strategies designed to achieve population-level reductions of substance abuse rates. It describes the importance of community mobilization and the necessity of seeking meaningful environmental change—two strategies that research indicates can influence substance abuse rates in an entire community.
This primer provides the basic tools each coalition needs to develop a comprehensive evaluation plan. In addition, it will help your coalition create and implement a local evaluation.
This primer provides a basic understanding of sustainability and its importance in achieving long-term reductions in rates of substance abuse. Pay close attention to identifying what initiatives your community must continue and which resources are necessary to help you develop an effective sustainability plan.
This primer provides anti-drug coalitions with a basic understanding of cultural competence and its importance in achieving substance abuse reduction that is effective and sustainable. If you know how to include all major sectors of your community in your efforts to develop a plan to create population-level change in community rates of substance abuse, then you likely will increase your chances of success.
This publication helps grantees of the Drug Free Communities Support Program (DFC) to navigate the common set of measures used to evaluate the overall effectiveness of the program. All grantees collect these same four core measures, allowing evaluators consistency in the data being tracked across diverse communities.
This publication provides an overview of the environmental strategies approach to community problem solving and includes examples of efforts where environmental strategies aimed at preventing and reducing community problems related to alcohol and other drugs were implemented.
This publication provides an overview to working with the media. It advocates a comprehensive approach to planning and implementing coalition marketing and communications. Whether your coalition operates in a rural community with a single weekly newspaper or a metropolitan area with an array of media outlets, you should develop relationships with media representatives and become a valuable resource to them.