Strategizer

This Strategizer is intended to clarify the data collection process so coalitions can complete the needs and assets assessment in a timely manner.

This Strategizer focuses on several key policy areas that coalitions can use in the local communities to improve merchant compliance.

Developed in collaboration with the Office of National Drug Control Strategy, Strategizer 53: Preventing Methamphetamine Use In Your Community offers strategies that coalitions can use to prevent meth use and to spread the word that meth treatment works. The publication contains the tools necessary to create a localized community action and media campaign and highlights best practices in meth abuse prevention.

Developed in collaboration with the ONDCP’s National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, Strategizer 52, Teen Prescription Drug Abuse: An Emerging Threat, provides the latest facts on prescription drug abuse or misuse among youth, strategies that prevention practitioners can use to address this issue in their communities, and best practices from coalitions across the country.

The Weed and Seed Toolbox, Strategizer 51, was developed by CADCA in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Community Capacity Development Office (CCDO). This in-depth manual provides coalitions and Weed and Seed Communities with the tools to craft better and more sustainable prevention and intervention strategies to improve conditions in neighborhoods or communities, making them better, healthier, and safer places to live and work.

With the support of Phamatech, Inc., this new Strategizer helps coalitions gain a better understanding of how drug testing fits into the prevention/intervention picture, featuring examples of testing in action and steps that coalitions can take to integrate drug testing into their community prevention strategy.

Provides step-by-step information about organizing an effective community briefing—from the planning process to tips on how to promote and generate news coverage from your briefing. Also includes guidelines on how to best use the information from the briefing and examples of coalitions that used a community briefing to build community awareness.

Provides a general framework for designing an evaluation specific to coalitions and offers guiding principles to help coalitions plan an evaluation.

This Strategizer provides specific information about two major funding sources for community coalitions—the Weed and Seed initiative and the Drug-Free Communities Support Program. The document compares and contrasts the program goals and objectives, eligible organizations, federal oversight and management structure, and performance measurements of each grant.

This Strategizer defines collaboration in the context of working with the faith community and offers practical suggestions of engaging the faith community in prevention efforts.

This Strategizer looks at the decades of research supporting coalitions and the faith community working together for the greater good.

This Strategizer provides accurate, scientific information about the specific harmful effects of marijuana and equips coalitions with strategies to reduce and prevent youth marijuana use.

This Strategizer informs coalitions about the National Guard and how to get their support for your organization.