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 Library
Resource Title | Description | Resource Type |
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Do No Harm Guide: Applying Equity Awareness in Data Visualization | This guide and the associated checklists and toolkits focus on the often hidden or subtle ways that data analysts and communicators fail to incorporate equitable awareness in the data they use and the products they create. |
Report/Research |
Embedding a Racial Equity Perspective in the Positive Youth Development Approach | Positive youth development (PYD) is a strengths-based approach used by programs to support the development of young people’s skills, nurture their interests and values, seek and incorporate their input, and connect them to positive adults and useful resources. Appreciation for the value of youth development has grown in recent years—both because its positive approach is attractive to staff in programs that serve young people, and because an increasing evidence base from research and evaluation studies demonstrates its benefits. As a result, interest in PYD has expanded beyond more traditional youth development programs to different types of programs, including employment readiness, risk behavior prevention programs, and summer programs. |
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief |
Enhancing Cultural Competence | This toolkit aids in assessing and enhancing cultural competence in your organization or community effort. |
Tool |
Ensuring the Well-being of Boys and Young Men of Color: Factors that Promote Success and Protect Against Substance Use and Misuse | This practice-support tool distills research on substance use and misuse in boys and young men of color as well as factors promoting positive youth development. |
Report/Research |
Environmental Strategies Tool | The Wyoming Survey & Analysis Center at the University of Wyoming, under contract to the Public Health Division of the Wyoming Department of Health, created an inventory of environmental substance abuse prevention strategies targeting alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs employed in Wyoming’s state-funded prevention system and assessed the evidence base and effectiveness of the evidence for each identified strategy. |
Tool |
Ethics in Prevention: A Guide for Substance Misuse Prevention Practitioners (HHS Region 1) | This course explores the six principles of the Prevention Code of Ethics, brought to life with realistic examples designed to enhance participant understanding. The course also introduces a decision-making process to help practitioners apply this code to a variety of ethical dilemmas. |
Tool |
Evaluating Community Programs and Initiatives | Information on developing a plan for evaluation, evaluation methods, and using evaluation to understand and improve the initiative. |
Tool |
Evaluating the Initiative | This toolkit aids in developing an evaluation of a community program or initiative. |
Tool |
Examples of Community-level Logic Models for Reducing the Non-medical Use of Opioid Prescription Drugs | This tool describes three examples of logic models—two present a community-level response to reducing the non-medical use of opioid prescription drugs (NMUOPD) and a third presents a state-level response. Each example contains a statement describing the problem (NMUOPD); the goals and objectives for addressing the problem; inputs—what resources and activities comprise the response; partners needed to effectively implement the approach; outputs—the result of these resources and activities; and short-, intermediate-, and long-term outcomes. |
Tool |
Examples of Local-level Logic Models for Addressing Behavioral Health Disparities | This resource contains three examples of logic models that prevention practitioners can use to think through their process for addressing behavioral health disparities at the community level. Each example addresses a different type of disparity, and includes the community’s related substance use problem; factors that contribute to the problem; activities to address the problem; and short-, intermediate-, and long-term outcomes. |
Tool |
Excellence in Prevention Strategy List | This page provides detailed information about direct service and environmental prevention strategies. Programs and strategies in this list must be shown in at least two studies to produce intended results. All programs listed include substance abuse prevention as an area of interest. |
Tool |
Exploring the Racial Equity Toolkit | Join us for this free webinar where we’ll be going over the new Racial Equity Toolkit that’s available now to download from the Collective Impact Forum resource library. |
Tool |
Facilitation and Group Management 101 | This 4-hr training will encourage participants to explore the critical elements of a successful training and workshop. Participants will explore tools and tips for positive behavior management, including guidance on crafting an engaging workshop agenda. |
Tool |
Facing Race: A National Conference | Facing Race: A National Conference is presented by Race Forward, a national non-profit working to advance racial justice in our policies, institutions, and culture. A unique collaborative space for racial justice movement making, Facing Race is the largest multiracial, inter-generational gathering for organizers, educators, creatives, and other leaders. |
Report/Research |
Family, Parent and Caregiver Peer Support in Behavioral Health | This resource describes the ways in which parent support providers can offer hope, guidance, advocacy, and camaraderie to parents and caregivers of children and youth receiving services from mental health, substance use, and related service systems. |
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief |