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Resource Library
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Addressing Sampling Challenges: Case Examples from the Field | This tool presents examples from four states to help evaluators and other data collectors improve sample representativeness and survey response rates when gathering primary data. |
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Addressing the Social Determinants of Health in Substance Use Prevention | We have long known that substance use is driven by a complex set of factors and circumstances. Each of our decisions is influenced by our circumstances, consciously and unconsciously. That’s why substance use prevention should be comprehensive – addressing as many of the primary drivers of substance use as possible. Recently, there has been a push to encourage health care stakeholders to focus on how the context of our lives affects our health, notably in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Healthy People 2030 initiative. The factors that comprise this context are referred to collectively as the social determinants of health (SDOH). This brief will explain the SDOH, map the concept of SDOH onto more “traditional” prevention frameworks, and explain how substance use prevention can play a role in such large-scale changes. |
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief |
Advancing Racial Justice in Organizations: An Online Learning Series | An online learning series for operationalizing racial justice in day-to-day organizational lifeARJ Online is a learning series to guide members of race, equity, and inclusion teams in designing a “do-it-yourself” racial equity change process within their organizations and networks. |
Report/Research |
Adverse Community Experiences and Resilience: A Framework for Addressing and Preventing Community Trauma | This report offers a groundbreaking framework for understanding the relationship between community trauma and violence. Until now, there has been no basis for understanding how community trauma undermines both individual and community resilience, especially in communities highly impacted by violence, and what can be done about it. Based on interviews with practitioners in communities with high rates of violence, the report outlines specific strategies to address and prevent community trauma—and foster resilience—using techniques from those living in affected areas. |
Report/Research |
Advocating for Change | This toolkit supports planning for advocacy efforts and responding to opposition. |
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Alcohol Awareness Toolkit | The Alcohol Awareness Toolkit seeks to do the following:
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Alcohol Industry Influences on Underage Drinking (New England PTTC - HHS Region 1) | The alcohol industry knows its message: That alcohol is part of having fun, having friends, playing sports, or being sexy or manly. This webinar will focus on the influence of advertising and alcohol industry practices on underage drinking. Presenters will provide a thorough inspection of industry practices that get kids’ attention with a special emphasis on emerging high risk alcohol products, which are defined as products that are produced, marketed or advertised in a way that creates an unreasonable risk of being attractive to teens or kids. Presenters describe and provide examples in 7 categories of high risk products, such as products designed to be “healthy”, youthfully packaged, flavorings, and the creation of alcohol versions of beverages that are traditionally teen oriented (and non-alcoholic). The session will also examine the role of social media in promoting these products. |
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief |
Alcohol Policy and Use in 2023: An Update (New England PTTC - HHS Region 1) | The alcohol marketplace is changing quickly, from direct shipment and third-party delivery services to cocktails to-go and curbside pickup, requiring enforcement, prevention, and public health stakeholders to react with creative solutions and strategies to regulate and enforce this new environment. This webinar will review the current alcohol policy landscape and alcohol consumption trends and how both have changed during the Covid-19 pandemic and discuss effective strategies that work to prevent alcohol-related harm with a spotlight on one state’s efforts to track and monitor the alcohol home delivery environment. |
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief |
Alcohol, Health and Safety In Massachusetts | Alcohol has a significant impact on health and safety in Massachusetts. Yet debates about alcohol policy in the Commonwealth often center on economic effects and the role of alcohol as a business and a generator of revenue. The purpose of this report is to add to those debates the best available evidence on alcohol from a health and safety perspective. Beginning with a review of what we know about drinking patterns in the Bay State, the report then reviews evidence of harms, and both the revenues and the costs generated by alcohol use in the state. The report concludes with a review of alcohol policies in Massachusetts, putting them in the context of research indicating which policies are most effective in reducing alcohol-related harm, and how other states treat alcohol from a policy perspective. |
Report/Research |
An Annotated Bibliography of Measurement Compendia | This annotated bibliography provides links to online compilations of reliable, valid, and standard measures of behavioral health indicators and outcomes. |
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Analyzing Community Problems and Designing and Adapting Community Interventions | Information about analyzing community problems to design, choose, and adapt interventions for different cultures and communities. |
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Analyzing Problems and Goals | This toolkit helps in analyzing personal and environmental factors that influence the problem to be addressed. |
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Assessing Community Needs and Resources | This toolkit provides guidance for conducting assessments of community needs and resources. |
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Balancing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) with HOPE | Provides an overview on how ACEs can be overcome with positive childhood development for long-lasting impact. |
Report/Research |
BEST LUNCH AND LEARN: BEST PRACTICES FOR RECRUITING AND RETAINING YOUTH IN OUT-OF-SCHOOL TIME (OST) PROGRAMS | This Lunch and Learn will provide an opportunity for participants to explore best practices and identify strategies to barriers for recruiting and retaining youth in your OST programs. Come to this Lunch and Learn to engage with other youth workers in discussions on the different roles we can take in recruitment and retention, share what has worked (and what hasn’t), and brainstorm ways to increase the level of youth participation and power in programming. |
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