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.

 

 

 

Assessment Primer: Analyzing the Community, Identifying Problems and Setting GoalsThis 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.

 

 

 

Sustainability Primer: Fostering Long-Term Change to Create Drug-Free Communities   Cultural Competence Primer: Incorporating Cultural Competence into Your Comprehensive PlanThis 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.

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

 

 

 

 

 

Evaluation Primer: Setting the Context for a Community Anti-Drug Coalition EvaluationThis 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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Capacity Primer: Building Membership, Structure and Leadership

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.

 

 

 

 

Planning Primer: Developing a Theory of Change, Logic Models and Strategic and Action PlansThis 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.

 

 

 

 

 

President Barack Obama’s fiscal 2017 budget will propose spending an additional $1.1 billion to address the opioid and heroin abuse epidemic, the Office of Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) announced yesterday. This is the largest increase in direct federal funding for treating substance use disorders in decades.

Event Provides Community Leaders Effective Drug Prevention Strategies and the Latest Research in the Field

The national touring exhibit developed by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the DEA Educational Foundation, “Drugs: Costs and Consequences,” formerly known as “Target America,” opens Jan. 12, at 750 Miller Drive, SE, Suite F-1 in Leesburg, Va., and will be open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free.

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