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MTF Media Outreach Toolkit

The National Institute on Drug Abuse and the University of Michigan released the findings from the 2009 Monitoring the Future Survey. The survey showed that while there were decreases in the use of cocaine, methamphetamine and LSD among youth, marijuana and prescription drug abuse showed no signs of slowing down. This toolkit includes tools that coalitions can use to obtain local media coverage of these findings, such as talking points, a news summary of the findings and a news release template.

Issues: Prescription Drug Abuse

Drug type: Alcohol, Marijuana, Prescription Drug, Inhalants
Handbook for Community Anti-Drug Coalitions

The Handbook for Community Anti-Drug Coalitions provides an overview of resources for and about community anti-drug coalitions. It helps educate, inform and empower local coalitions and provides some of the basic tools needed to become effective and sustainable.

Coalition resource: National Coalition Institute, Coalition Building

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Implementation Primer: Putting Your Plan into Action

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.

Coalition resources: Strategic Prevention Framework, National Coalition Institute, Implementation, Environmental Strategies
Evaluation Primer: Setting the Context for a Community Anti-Drug Coalition Evaluation

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.

Coalition resources: Evaluation, National Coalition Institute, Strategic Prevention Framework
Cultural Competence Primer: Incorporating Cultural Competence into Your Comprehensive 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.

Coalition resources: Strategic Prevention Framework, Cultural Competence
Capturing the Four Core Measures: A Guide for Drug-Free Communities Grantees

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.

Coalition resources: Four Core Measures, Evaluation
2010 MetLife Foundation Community-Police Partnership Awards

Applications are now being accepted for the 2010 MetLife Foundation Community-Police Partnership Awards. Awards will be presented to recognize, sustain and share the work of partnerships between community groups and police that promote neighborhood safety and revitalization.

Coalition resources: Funding