Transcript WestCAPT Overview - Community Prevention Initiative (CPI)

CSAP’s Western Center for the
Application of Prevention
Technologies
Funded by the Center for Substance
Abuse Prevention
What is a “CSAP’s CAPT”?
• The Centers for the Application of
Prevention Technologies (CAPT) are
CSAP funded projects since 1997.
• Five regional centers - CSAP’s Western
CAPT now serves the border region
along with 17 states and territories.
Goals of the CAPT
• CSAP’s CAPTs assist in bridging the gap
between research and practice in the
field of substance abuse prevention.
• Visit www.captus.org to visit CSAP’s
National CAPT web site (products and
links to each regional web site)
CSAP’s Western CAPT
Products
• Web site on “Building a Successful
Prevention Program”
• “Best Practices and Promising Practices”
Booklet
• “Tip of the CAPT”
• “Prevention Talk”
• “Talking to Your Kids about Alcohol”
More Products
• “Developing Healthy Communities”
• “College Courses for Substance Abuse
Prevention”
• “Community Readiness”
• “How to Make Prevention More Powerful”
• “Smoke-Free Work Sites”
• Research-Based Literature Reviews
CSAP’s Western CAPT
Trainings
• Substance Abuse Prevention
Specialist Training
• Summer Institute for Addiction and
Prevention Studies
• Service to Science Academies
• Substance Abuse Prevention –
Community of Learners (On-line)
National CAPT Products & Trainings
Under Development
•
•
•
•
•
•
National CAPT Briefs
Coalition Building
Evaluation
Fidelity and Adaptation
Evidence-based Prevention
Sustainability
For More Information on our
Products and Trainings
www.westcapt.org
Download free copies of our products!
For On-line
Course Information
www.casat.org
To Subscribe to our
Listserve, Visit
www.westcapt.org
Click on “Products”
This is the best way to find out what
we’re up to!
CSAP’s Western CAPT
“Building a Successful
Prevention Program”
web site
• This web site provides tools and
information on program planning
• www.westcapt.org
• Click on “Planning and Best Practices”
Seven Steps to Building
A Successful
Prevention Program
1. Increase the readiness of the community
2. Assess the levels of risk factors and protective
factors in the community
3. Translate data into priorities
4. Examine the resources in the community
that are reducing risk factors and
increasing protective factors
Seven Steps to Building
A Successful
Prevention Program
(continued)
5. Focus efforts
6 Use “best practices” and
“guiding principles”
7. Evaluate
SAMHSA’s Strategic
Prevention Framework
1. Profile needs, resources, and readiness
2. Mobilize and build capacity
3. Develop a comprehensive strategic plan
4. Implement evidence-based prevention
programs and develop infrastructure
5. Monitor, evaluate, sustain and improve
Strategic Prevention
Framework Tool:
SAMHSA’s Prevention Platform
http://preventionplatform.samhsa.gov/
Contact Information
Denise Grothaus
[email protected]
775.465.9661
I enjoy hearing from you!
Questions?