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Center for the Application of Substance Abuse Technologies (CASAT)
Center for the Application of Substance Abuse Technologies (CASAT) currently holds the contract for the CSAP's Western Region Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPT). It coordinates academic programs and training regarding substance abuse prevention, including a "Best Practices Database" that allows a user to choose a prevention program to meet specific identified needs.
http://www.casat.unr.edu/ |
Environmental Strategies for Prevention
A Guide To Helping the Prevention Professional Work Effectively in the Community
This course is designed to introduce prevention professionals and concerned citizens to the prevention strategies that focus on altering and improving the environment by changing social norms or attitudes, controlling the availability of illicit drugs or alcohol or creating or strengthening enforcement of laws and regulations. This course is appropriate for everyone who has a role in prevention -- health and mental health professionals, social workers, and social service workers as well as community organizers, law enforcement and others.
http://pathwayscourses.samhsa.gov/ |
Foundations of Prevention
This course offers you an opportunity to learn the basics of substance abuse prevention. It provides information on prevention principles, approaches, and strategies, as well as guidance for planning effective programs and measuring results. If you are involved in the design, development, or implementation of prevention programs, you may benefit from taking the course. If you are a professional prevention specialist or a community leader who is involved in shaping a prevention program, this course may be just what you need.
http://preventionplatform.samhsa.gov/fop/?CFID=421840&CFTOKEN=603206 |
National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention
The National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention provides technical assistance and training to school districts and communities that receive grants from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The site provides research, events, webcasts, publications, e-newsletters and a link to funding sources.
http://www.promoteprevent.org/index.html |
ON-LINE COURSE — Foundations of Prevention
This course provides the opportunity to learn the basic core of prevention science through an on-line system, available 24 hours a day. The curriculum is divided into eight units: Prevention and the Public Health Model, Risk and Protective Factors, Prevention Strategies, Individual and Social Change, Health Communication and Social Marketing, Needs and Resource Assessment, Planning for Successful Outcomes, and Resources for Prevention Planning. Students can move through the units at their own pace, leaving and returning to their stopping point, as needed. CEUs are available through the University of Maryland, College Park. This resource is provided by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP).
http://preventionplatform.samhsa.gov/fop/?CFID=421840&CFTOKEN=603206 |
SAMHSA Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)
This is the main page to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA's), Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) web site. It is a portal to a wide range of prevention information regarding planning, assessment, capacity building and programming.
http://prevention.samhsa.gov |
SAMHSA Centers for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPTs)
This is the portal for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Prevention's (CSAP's) five regional Centers for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPTs). Links to web pages and resources offered by each of the regional CAPTs (Central, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest, and Western) are provided.
http://www.captus.org |
SAMHSA Prevention Platform
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA's) Prevention Platform provides several tools to accommodate the assessment, capacity building, planning, implementation and evaluation of prevention projects. Its resources also provide links to funding sources, measurements and instruments and database builders.
http://www.preventionplatform.samhsa.gov |
Search Institute
The Search Institute is an independent nonprofit organization that developed the 40 Developmental Assets framework. Its site provides funding information, enewsletters, listservs, discussion groups, training sources, publications (some in French and Spanish), downloads and survey sources for prevention professionals in schools and the community, including faith-based organizations.
http://www.search-institute.org |
Social Development Research Group (SDRG)
Social Development Research Group (SDRG) is a team of nationally recognized researchers. The well-respected "Risk & Protective Factors" framework is the development of decades of research by SDRG team members. The SDRG site offers notes and presentations by the team members, links to prevention-related journals, past and current research projects for the community, school and family.
http://www.depts.washington.edu/sdrg/index.html |
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