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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!

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THRIVE: Tool for Health & Resilience in Vulnerable Environments

THRIVE enables communities to determine how to improve health and safety, and promote health equity. It is a framework for understanding how structural drivers, such as racism, play out at the community level in terms of the social-cultural, physical/built, and economic/ educational environments. We call these community-level indicators the community determinants of health. In addition to being a framework, THRIVE is also a tool for engaging community members and practitioners in assessing the status of community determinants, prioritizing them, and taking action to change them in order to improve health, safety, and health equity. As a framework, THRIVE is widely applicable to local, state, and national initiatives to inform policy and program direction. As a tool, THRIVE can be used in a variety of planning and implementation processes, from neighborhood-level planning to community health needs assessments (CHNA) and community health improvement planning (CHIP) processes.

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Thriving, Robust Equity, and Transformative Learning & Development

This new conceptualization of youth success draws from more than 180 sources and makes an argument for new definitions to propel practice and policy that addresses educational and racial equity.

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Tip Sheet on Question Wording

This Program on Survey Research Tip Sheet provides some basic tips about how to write good survey questions and design a good survey questionnaire.

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Tips and Guidance for Conducting Key Partner Interviews

This guide provides tips and guidance for conducting interviews with key partners to gather needs assessment data from planning and preparation, conducting the interview, and provides sample questions to ask by various audiences.

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Tips and Tricks for Creating Compelling Slides and Handouts

Looking for tips and tricks on how to create compelling slide decks and handouts for your meetings and presentations? Don't miss this opportunity to learn how to design slide decks and handouts that are memorable and effective.

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Tool for Organizational Self Assessment Related to Racial Equity

This tool – developed and piloted by the Eliminating Disparities collaborative – helps leaders gain an evidence-based snapshot of practices and policies related to racial equity in their organizations.  This open source tool is designed for organizations both large and small, including school districts, nonprofits, corporations, foundations and others.

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Tools to Assess Community Readiness to Prevent Substance Misuse

This tool provides a list of tools that practitioners working to prevent substance misuse can use to assess their community’s readiness to address identified needs, and to prioritize these needs accordingly. Please note that the examples presented here are not representative of all assessment tools available to the field and do not imply endorsement by SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Prevention.

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Transparent, Open, and Reproducible Prevention Science

The field of prevention science aims to understand societal problems, identify effective interventions, and translate scientific evidence into policy and practice. There is growing interest among prevention scientists in the potential for transparency, openness, and reproducibility to facilitate this mission by providing opportunities to align scientific practice with scientific ideals, accelerate scientific discovery, and broaden access to scientific knowledge.

This webinar will provide an overview of open science for prevention researchers. Topics include factors motivating interest in transparency and reproducibility, research practices associated with open science, and stakeholders engaged in, and impacted by, open science reform efforts. In addition, this webinar will discuss how and why different types of prevention research could incorporate open science practices, as well as ways that prevention science tools and methods could be leveraged to advance the wider open science movement. The webinar will identify activities that aim to strengthen the reliability and efficiency of prevention science, facilitate access to prevention science products and outputs, and promote collaborative and inclusive participation in research activities. The webinar will conclude with potential reservations and challenges for the field of prevention science to address as it transitions to greater transparency, openness, and reproducibility
 

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Tribal Youth Resource Center

Funded by The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Tribal Youth Resource Center supports tribal efforts to improve juvenile justice systems for American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) youth. The website features a resource library, upcoming events, funding opportunities, podcasts, and blogs on topics relevant to supporting Tribal youth.

 

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Turning Data Into Action: A User’s Guide to the Report to Congress on the Prevention and Reduction of Underage Drinking

The Report to Congress on the Prevention and Reduction of Underage Drinking (RTC), along with the State Performance and Best Practices report and state-specific reports, serves as a resource for creating data-driven and evidence-based policies and programs to reduce and prevent underage drinking. This user guide gives a brief overview of the reports and a breakdown by audience for how to find and use the information they contain.

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Understanding and Implementing Selective Prevention Strategies

This is the second webinar in the three-part series focused on implementing prevention strategies across the continuum of care. This 90-minute webinar will focus on the selection and implementation of selective prevention strategies. Selective prevention efforts are more targeted than universal strategies and are focused on populations identified as having risk factors that put them at greater risk for developing substance use disorders. In this webinar we will focus on how implementing selective prevention strategies can be a key component of helping you reach your prevention outcomes. It is essential for prevention professionals to understand the components of selective prevention as they work to identify focus populations and matched strategies.

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Undoing the Drivers of Health Inequity

The fundamental drivers of health inequity are systemic factors that shape people’s physical and social surroundings in ways that create barriers to health. This interactive tool outlines how to address the five fundamental drivers of health inequity by developing legal and policy strategies to transform policies and systems. It provides real-world examples of how communities across the country have used equitable policymaking to confront the drivers of health inequity and create systems change.

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VIRTUAL EVENT: National Overdose Prevention Leadership Summit

The National Overdose Prevention Leadership Summit (NOPLS) is an annual virtual event that highlights real solutions to the overdose crisis that bridge justice, health care, and public health sectors. NOPLS helps professionals from across the spectrum of overdose prevention, treatment, and justice to learn, share, and collaborate more effectively, which leads to reducing overdose deaths.

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VIRTUAL: Adolescent Substance Use: What’s the Deal?

This presentation will explain how adolescent brain development creates a special vulnerability to developing substance use disorders. Participants will learn about the impact of substance use on adolescent physical and mental health.

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VIRTUAL: Creating an LGBTQ Inclusive Workplace - (707)

This 4-hour training is designed to increase recognition of gender bias and foster inclusive practices to promote a safe, equitable and supportive work environment for people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming. Participants will identify the promoters and inhibitors of gender equity and inclusion in the workplace.

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