Prevention - Planning and Evaluation

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) are committed to providing tools that enable prevention practitioners to provide effective science-based programs and services.

SAMHSA's Prevention Platform (replaces the Prevention DSS and PrevTech) is a free online guide to its Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF).  The SPF includes five critical steps to the successful implementation of prevention approaches:

• Assessment of Needs and Resources
• Capacity Building
• Strategic Prevention Planning
• Implementation of Identified Prevention Strategies
• Evaluation of the Plan and its Implementation.

The Prevention Platform operationalizes the Strategic Prevention Framework by providing tools to:

• Assess needs, readiness and resources
• Do strategic planning and infrastructure development
• Identify and select relevant evidence-based prevention approaches
• Plan implementation of prevention approaches
• Conduct evaluations that measure process data, project progress, outcomes and impacts

In addition, the Prevention Platform also contains:

• Geo-mapping tool
• Directories and guides of evidence-based prevention approaches
• Readiness Roadmap planning tool
• Measures and Instruments Repository
• Extensive array of training courses and curricula
• Prevention glossaries

While registration is not required to use the Prevention Platform, registered users will be able to save work and return at a later date.  Registration is free and easy.  For additional information, visit the Prevention Platform or call Connecticut Clearinghouse at 800.232.4424. 

Source:  Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)