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The Vermont Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) State Incentive Grant (SIG) is a federally funded cooperative agreement between the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) and the State of Vermont. It is administered by the Vermont Department of Health Agency of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs.
The purpose of the Vermont SPF is twofold:
- to further develop, strengthen and maintain prevention services infrastructure throughout the state;
- and to impact at a community level the three priority areas of substance abuse identified by the state Epidemiological Work Group.
The SPF is a public health, outcomes-based prevention approach that involves communities in implementing a five-step process that applies assessment and evaluation to reducing substance abuse and its consequences. For more information about the SPF in Vermont please visit: http://healthvermont.gov/adap/prevention/SPF/StrategicPreventionFramework.aspx
The Vermont priorities for the Strategic Prevention Framework Initiative are to:
- Reduce underage drinking.
- Reduce high-risk drinking among persons under the age of 25.
- Reduce marijuana use among persons under the age of 25.
- Build prevention capacity and infrastructure at the state and community levels, including a sustainable evaluation system for prevention grantees.
ADAP 2010 Prevention Trainings Calendar
Vermont Prevention Model
This prevention model was developed by the Vermont Department of Health and adapted to the CHAMPPS activities. In order for prevention activities to have the greatest impact, multiple levels of the model must be addressed simultaneously with efforts directed specifically at the higher levels of community, organizations and policies/systems.
Strategic Prevention Framework Steps Graphics
SPF Learning Community Connections (E-Newsletters from CHL)
June 2008
October 2008
April 2009
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Common Theme Campaign
SPIKE Creative Brief 5/14/09
Parent Up: Common Theme Campaign Update 1/08/10
Middle School Parent Campaign Media Kit
Tool Kit
Handouts:
Your Role
Talking with Your Children
Facing the Facts About Underage Drinking
Parent Up: A Parent Discussion
How to Spread the Word About Events
A Quick Guide to Social Networks
Media Kit
Background Information for Press
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SPF Epidemiology
Strategic Prevention Framework Epidemiology Profile Summary
Strategic Prevention Framework Epidemiology Profile Report (whole report)
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Trainings
Year One (2007-2008):
Vermont SPF Training Overview Year One 2007- 2008
SPF Training Resources: Year One 2007-2009
Link here for handouts and Power Point presentations from Year One Trainings, Steps 1-4.
Documents: Implementing SPF in Vermont--Overview and Primer; Learning Community Overview; Mobilizing Resources/Analyzing Community Data; Cultural Engagement, Priority Selection, Process and Assessing Risk and Protective Factors; Effective Implementation.
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Year Two (2008-2009):
Vermont SPF Training Overview Year Two 2008 - 2009
SPF Training Resources: Year Two 2008-2009
Link here for materials and Power Point presentations from Year Two Trainings.
DECEMBER 4-5 TRAINING:
Documents: Training Agenda; Cultural Competency Plan; Power Point Presentations: Deoshore Haig; Evaluation: Bob Flewelling/Amy Livingston; Recruiting, Engaging and Sustaining Young Adult Participation: Connie Beal Power Point Presentation; Learning Community Overview; SPF-SIG Cross-Site Evaluation; Links to Guidance and Tools documents and Environmental Strategies by K. Pettibone.
MARCH 13 TRAINING:
For materials from Erica Schmitz on Social Norms Marketing, please look under Environmental Strategies.
MAY 12 TRAINING: Documents: Vermont Team Alcohol Safety Program Standards; TASP Flow Chart; CD and TASP Comparison Chart; TASP Notice of Violation; CD TASP Coalition Collaboration Notes; Cultural Competency; Adolescent Brain Development
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Year Three (2009-2010):
Vermont SPF Training Overview Year Three 2009 - 2010
SPF Training Resources: Year Three 2009 - 2010
Link here for materials and Power Point presentations from Year Three Trainings, including:
Vermont Substance Abuse Coalition List
SPF Training Design Group Contact List
SPF Requirements for FY 2010 - The When, What and How
SPF Due Dates at a Glance
OCTOBER 19 2009 TRAINING
Kate Perkins: Media & Marketing 101 Power Point; My Plan; My Model; BEHAVE Framework
Andy Robinson: "Leading by Giving Away Your Power"; Benchmarking Score Sheet; Sustainability Overview Group Output
Prevention Works: Mission, Vision, Contact
NOVEMBER 19-20 2009 TRAINING
Coalition Sustainability Overview Part II: Volunteer Recruitment and Management
The Alcopop Problem: From Prevention Works!
MLDA Brief: From Prevention Works!
Common Theme Campaign (Power Point): Pat Sears, SPIKE and Kelly LaMonda, VDH
JANUARY 20 2010 TRAINING
Common Theme Campaign
Youth Risk Behavior Survey, Erika Edwards (Power Point): The YRBS measures use of and attitudes toward alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs among Vermont adolescents.
Vermont Testimony (Power Point): Testimony presented by Dr. Jernigan to the Vermont Legislature regarding the minimum legal drinking age.
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EVALUATION TOOLS
Evaluating Your Campaign Q & A
Anne Dorwaldt, Bob Flewelling, Amy Livingston: Expert Panel on "Evaluating Your Media Campaign: Questions and Answers."
Response Rates and Surveying Techniques
Tips to Enhance Survey Respondent Participants
Smart Survey Design
This guide provides information on writing successful and effective survey questions, creating survey flow and layout, calculating response rates, tips for increasing response rates and the pros and cons of online surveys. (Plus an appendix of links and works cited for additional help in survey design.)
Evaluation Tools
Documents: Data Profiles Guidance, Community Resources and Readiness Assessment, Strategies for Increasing Community Readiness, Addressing Community Level Capacity, etc.
ENGAGING YOUNG ADULTS
Recruiting, Engaging and Sustaining Young Adult Participation
Levels of Responsibility
ADVOCACY
SPF Advocacy Survey Results January 2009
CULTURAL COMPETENCY
Seven Domains of the HRSA/DHHS Cultural Competency Framework
Seven Domains of the HRSA/DHHS CC Framework--BLANK
Definitions of Cultural Competency
Cultural Competency Objectives from Vermont Guidance Document
VDH Cultural Competency Plan
SPF/SIG Considerations for Cultural Competency
DHaig Power Point Presentation December 5 2009
ENFORCEMENT
Vermont SPF Enforcement Interview Guide
SOCIAL NORMS MARKETING
ADAP Youth & Alcohol: Common Theme Campaign (From April 9 2008 SPF Training)
Media Revealed: Understanding Our Media Diet
From the VT Tobacco Control Program, VT Department of Health
Creative Blueprint
Social Marketing Fidelity Rubric
From the NE CAPT on social marketing, 2 fidelity guides for social marketing campaigns that follow the SPF framework.
An update on college drinking research from NIAAA that highlights recent research on campus and community partnerships as well as social norms campaigns.
Prevention File, Spring 2009
This issue focuses on prevention in higher education. It includes an article on social norms campaigns on college campuses by William DeJong and an article on the MLDA.
ENVIR0NMENTAL STRATEGIES
Erica Schmitz, Director Maine Environmental Substance Abuse Prevention and 21 Reasons (Link here for the following documents)
Power Point Presentation: Implementing the Strategic Prevention Framework in Vermont, March 11 2009
PP Handouts in COLOR--Social Access Portland Case Study for Vermont, 2009
PP Handouts in GRAYSCALE--Social Access Portland Case Study for Vermont, 2009
Activity Worksheets (Strategies to Reduce Social Access: Real Life Lessons from Portland2007 Request for Proposal
Diversion Programs and Alternatives to Suspension for Substance Abuse: Summary of Research Recommendations, October 2008
Enforcement as Prevention May 2007
Resulting Article in Press Herald
Law Summary 21 Reasons Brochure FRONT
Law Summary 21 Reasons Brochure BACK
Sample Media Advisory
21 Reasons Retreat Data Report Handout
Portland Parent Survey 2008 Summary--Final
Environmental Strategies: Selection Guide, Reference List & Examples of Implemetation Guidelines
START: Vermont's Approach to Combating Underage Drinking
This Power Point was presented by RJ Elrick, Executive Director, VT Criminal Justice Training Council, VT Police Academy. RJ Elrick provides training and technical assistance to the START programs. There are 13 regional teams groups that receive Enforcing Unerage Drinking Laws grant funds
The objectives of the grant are: 1) to support START coalitions in order to examine regional law enforcement efforts toward combating underage drinking; 2) to intervene at underage drinking activities and decrease the number of alcohol related tragedies; and 3) to change the community's norms regarding underage drinking through community education and partnership with prevention programs.
VT Department of Liquor Control: What We Offer
The Department of Liquor Control (DLC) is responsible for enforcing underage drinking laws by conductng compliance checks, training and educating retailers, bartenders, bar owners and the community at large. Link here for a list of DLC programs available to your community. http://liquorcontrol.vermont.gov/
DLC web site for contact information on both the DLC educators and investigators, compliance check information and training opportunities.
CSAP Guidelines for Social Marketing Campaigns
Fidelity Measure for Increase Price or Taxes on Alcohol or Tobacco
Use the tabs
at the bottom of the worksheet to find tables for several different strategies that many of you are using, including social norms/social marketing and media.
Online Courses in Environmental Strategies Reviewed
OTHER RESOURCES
The CASA Report: Shoveling Up II - The Impact of Substance Abuse on Federal, State and Local Budgets
The CASA report assesses the gap between the amount that is spent on ATOD prevention, treatment, and research, relative to what ATOD-related problems cost us as a society. Mostly data are at the national level, although some are provided by state.
Link here for the state fact sheets on the costs of underage drinking developed by PIRE. The 2-page fact sheets for each state (suitable for giving to policy makers) are downloadable from the web site.
Guide for School-Based Drug Policy and Advisory Councils, Burk, Isabel, The Health Network 2001, ISBN number 0-9655436-5-X
21 Reasons to Prevent Underage Drinking
Communities of Concern Booklet
(For the Parent Coffees in the Metrowest Boston Project)
Helping America's Youth
This Program Tool provides you with information about program designs that successfully deal with risky behaviors. You can replicate these strategies to meet your local needs. The Program Tool database contains risk factors, protective factors and programs that have been evaluated and found to work.
SAMHSA Sustainability Toolkit for Grassroots Programs
28 Vernon Street, Suite 319, Brattleboro, Vermont 05301
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