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Social Determinants of Health: A Common Language for Collaborating Across Sectors

Vol. 9, Iss. 13

This tactic will help prevention professionals employ the language of social determinants of health (SDH) as a means of grounding substance use disorder prevention work in the broader cross-systems prevention dialogue. This tactic defines SDH and explains how this terminology > read more

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Policy Panels: Creating Effective Public Policy

Vol. 8, Iss. 3

Local policy panels are powerful tools to assist California communities in addressing alcohol and other drug-related problems, such as youth access to alcohol. Policy panels also serve to mobilize new community organizations and leadership in the service of progressive prevention > read more

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Mini-Grants: A Community Approach to AOD Prevention

Vol. 8, Iss. 6

One often overlooked funding source for AOD prevention is mini-grants. These are small grants made to community organizations to implement specific AOD prevention activities. This Tactic gives advice about how to find and apply for mini-grants, and offers suggestions for > read more

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PREVENTION WORKS! The recent National Cross-Site Evaluation of High-Risk Youth Programs reveals the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of prevention

Vol. 4, Iss. 3

The findings of the National Cross-Site Evaluation have important implications in prevention design and implementation. This Tactic highlights the study’s key findings to illustrate how and why prevention works, and what practitioners and policymakers can do to make prevention work > read more

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Community Organizing for the Next Millennium

Vol. 7, Iss. 3

It used to be easy to gather community support to protest an offensive ad campaign, but how do you counteract the new marketing trend of “real life experiences”? How do you counteract traveling, alcohol-industry produced, one-time events? We need to > read more

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Prevention Strategies for Adolescent Girls and Young Women

Vol. 5, Iss. 3

How do the lives of girls and young women differ from those of boys and young men? What alcohol and other drug prevention strategies have been found to be especially effective with girls and young women? What kinds of prevention > read more

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Culturally Responsive Environmental Prevention

Vol. 9, Iss. 12

The goal of this Tactic is to assist professional prevention providers, grassroots citizen groups, prevention coalitions, and others who aim to change substance use and abuse patterns on a community scale by illuminating what culturally responsive selection, implementation, and evaluation > read more

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A Generation At Risk: Applying Prevention Concepts to the Elderly

Vol. 5, Iss. 1

Older people are less likely to abuse substances, except perhaps prescription psychoactive medications. However, aging bodies are more susceptible to the effects of alcohol and other drugs. Very few treatment programs or public health initiatives are directed at older populations, > read more

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The Power of Substance Abuse Prevention: Why Invest in Prevention

Vol. 1, Iss. 1

Given today’s economic conditions, it is critical to measure the worth of programs, services, and policies that stand to reduce the costly effects of substance abuse. The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of the cost-effective and > read more

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Substance Abuse Prevention: Benefits Outweigh Costs – Spreading the Message Where It Counts

Vol. 9, Iss. 7

Many social science fields embrace taking the long view when addressing problems, seeing prevention as the cornerstone of effective problem solving. This publication focuses on the cost/ benefits of substance abuse prevention and how to support these essential efforts in > read more

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