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Partnerships for Success: Evaluating Community-Based Interventions for Underage Drinking and Prescription Drug Misuse
The SPF-PFS brings SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) to a national scale. The program is based on the premise that changes at the community level will, over time, lead to measurable changes at the State, jurisdictional, or tribal level. The program funds state, jurisdiction, and tribal grantees to provide funds to subrecipient communities which assess needs and then select and implement evidence-based interventions to address the targeted priority issues. By working together to foster change, grantees and their initially high need and low capacity subrecipient communities can more effectively overcome the challenges underlying their substance abuse prevention priorities and achieve the goals of the SPF-PFS.
CSAP recently funded a 5-year cross site evaluation to evaluate the effectiveness of the funded grantees (N=52) to build prevention capacity and impact alcohol and prescription-drug related consumption, intervening variables, and consequences at grantee (state, jurisdiction, or tribe) and community levels. This presentation will describe and highlight a comprehensive and groundbreaking evaluation designed to address challenges associated with conducting similar efforts. In addition it will include a description of innovative approaches implemented by subrecipient communities to prevent drinking and prescription drug misuse and abuse along with an assessment of preliminary findings to date.
Learning Areas:
Conduct evaluation related to programs, research, and other areas of practiceImplementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs
Learning Objectives:
Identify innovative elements of the cross-site evaluation plan for SAMHSA's Strategic Prevention Framework Partnerships for Success (PFS) program.
Describe individual and environmental interventions being implemented by PFS program community-level grantees.
Discuss initial outcomes of the PFS program.
Keyword(s): Evaluation, Drug Abuse Prevention and Safety
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have been a project manager, associate project director, and task lead for multiple federally funded grants, projects, and evaluations in the area of substance use prevention interventions and related epidemiology. I currently serve as an epidemiology lead for a substance use prevention project in the District of Columbia, and the Deputy Project Director of the cross-site evaluation of SAMHSA's Partnerships for Success program.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.