Resources

Resource Library

Search our resource library to access a wealth of information to support your substance misuse prevention efforts. Use the drop down menus to search by resource type and/or prevention topic, or type a keyword into the search bar. New resources added regularly!

Resource Title Description Resource Type
Screen4Success: Screening for Health, Wellness, and Wellbeing

Screen4Success, a new, user-friendly tool from SAMHSA’s “Talk. They Hear You.”® campaign designed to help parents and caregivers better understand the health, wellness, and wellbeing of their children and find resources to address their needs.

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Selecting Best-fit Programs and Practices: Guidance for Substance Misuse Prevention Practitioners

Substance misuse and related behavioral health problems such as injury, addiction, and overdose are pressing personal and public health concerns. To successfully address these problems in states, tribes, jurisdictions, and communities, prevention planners need information about the effectiveness of available programs and practices. They also need to know how to determine which options have the greatest potential to work well in their unique settings and how to proceed if no viable options are available. To help meet these needs, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has developed this guidance document, Selecting Best-Fit Programs and Practices: Guidance for Substance Misuse Prevention Practitioners. This resource places the selection of programs and practices within the broader context of evidence-based prevention.

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Six Strategies for Talking about Adolescent Development

This resource outlines six strategies for effectively communicating about adolescent development.

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SJLA Learning Series - Health Equity Workshop Series: Understanding the Landscape of Mental Health and Substance Use Challenges

Health Equity involves understanding terms and definitions in the changing landscape of Mental Health and Substance Use Challenges. Part of assessing for equity requires an understanding of safe and secure (Physical, Social, Psychological and Moral) environments for staff and those we serve. This includes exploring the concepts of Equity, Cultural Humility, as well as climate assessments and safe and secure environment surveys for staff and team discussions regarding creating safe space for open, honest, dialogue regarding equity issues/concerns. At the heart of this work is understanding Person-Driven Services and how to better involve communities of Color and other marginalized identities.

 

Featured Speakers:
Dr. Ami Roeschlein, DSW, MA, LMFT
Aaron Williams, MA

Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Social Determinants of Health

The Praxis Project uses a social determinants of health (SDOH) framework to guide our work. Many traditional SDOH frameworks lack the explicit naming of systems of oppression that cause disparities in health determinants. In an effort to incorporate these systems of oppression and to highlight the root causes of these determinants from a justice and community power perspective, The Praxis Project created this visual representation. This entire framework—from the root causes, to the social determinants of health, to the subsequent health outcomes—is Praxis’ Social Determinants of Health Equity framework.

Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Social Marketing and Sustainability of the Initiative

Information on conducting a social marketing effort (promoting awareness, interest, and behavior change), and planning for long-term sustainability.

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Stories and Poems for Northeastern Native Tribal Families from A Circle Tied to Mother Earth

Developed by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health in partnership with Native American communities in Massachusetts, this booklet provides a series of stories and poems explores the ways family members can help prevent youth drinking and other drug use. The images from Native American communities are interwoven with the best we know about the prevention of substance use. It includes guidance for positive discussion, as well as referral resources for counseling for youth and adults if needed.

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Strategic Prevention Framework

In this webinar, you will learn about a new concept in prevention programming - the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) - which involves strategic planning and implementation of evidence-based interventions in the local community. Dr. Augie Diana, Health Scientist Administrator, formerly of SAMHSA, will walk us through the steps of implementation, program evaluations and the results, ideas on incorporation in academic prevention courses, and implications for local practitioners.

Report/Research
Strategies for Community Change and Improvement: An Overview

This resource provides information on what it means to organize for community change and effective strategies, as well as an overview on starting and maintaining a coalition with accompanying tools and examples.

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Strategies for culturally safe research with Native American communities: an integrative review

A history of unethical research and deficit-based paradigms have contributed to profound mistrust of research among Native Americans, serving as an important call to action. Lack of cultural safety in research with Native Americans limits integration of cultural and contextual knowledge that is valuable for understanding challenges and making progress toward sustainable change. This paper aims identify strategies for promoting cultural safety, accountability, and sustainability in research with Native American communities.

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Strategies to Prevent Binge or Heavy Episodic Drinking among Adolescents and Young Adults

As part of a strategic planning process, practitioners need to select prevention strategies or interventions that address those risk and protective factors associated with their prioritized substance-related problem(s). This document summarizes evaluations of prevention strategies and interventions associated with binge or heavy episodic drinking, as identified in the prevention research literature. It also provides recommendations for using the prevention research to inform strategy selection.

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Structural Racism Booklet: Research and Policy Analyses

The National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives is pleased to provide this 40-page booklet of factsheets documenting evidence for structural racism across societal systems. Experts from a wide range of fields present data on the negative impacts of racist practices on the health and well-being of children and families, and recommend public policies to weed it out.

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Substance Abuse Prevention Collaborative (SAPC) Guidance Document

This guidance document is a resource for municipalities, individuals, organizations, community coalitions, and other groups who are implementing universal prevention efforts aimed at preventing and reducing underage drinking and other drug use in Massachusetts, including those whose efforts are funded by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) Bureau of Substance Abuse Services (BSAS) and, more specifically, grantees of the Massachusetts Substance Abuse Prevention Collaborative (SAPC) grant program.

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Substance Misuse Prevention with LGBTQIA+ Youth: A Health Educator's Guide

A self-guided and reflective tool that is inclusive of evidence-based practices, risk and protective factors and coping skills specific to LGBTQ+ youth for educators to utilize when developing and evaluating their own curriculum and informational products, to ensure they are being intentional with their inclusion and support of LGBTQIA+ youth. 

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Substance Use in Massachusetts: Regional Paths to Prevention & Recovery (Part 1))

Join us for a three-part webinar series that will focus on creating regional solutions (prevention and recovery) to the Commonwealth's substance use epidemic. Be a part of the effort to address this important challenge and find collaborative solutions towards a region/state in which individuals have access to the care and support they need.

Wednesday, January 11, 2023 | 9:30 a.m.
Understanding the Substance Use Landscape
Help build your foundational knowledge about the substance use crisis in Massachusetts; hear from experts in the field working to create prevention and recovery solutions on this continuing crisis.

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