Appendix B - Evidence-Based Resources.docx

Appendix B. Resources on Evidence-Based and Practice-Based Strategies and Activities

The following resources are a collection of evidence-based and practice-based strategies from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and additional sources to address substance use and misuse among youth. This is not an exhaustive list, but rather a starting point for coalitions to refer to as they consider which strategies will work best in their communities to implement the DFC program.

Adolescent and School Health Prevention Principles and Curriculum Analysis

· The Preventing Drug Use among Children and Adolescents: A Research-Based Guide for Parents, Educators, and Community Leaders presents updated prevention principles, an overview of program planning, and outlines specific school-based programs to prevent substance use among adolescents. It also highlights actions that parents, educators, and community leaders can take to support substance-use prevention.

· CDC’s Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT) develops appropriate and effective curricula across grade spans (e.g., PreK-2; 3-5; 6-8; 9-12). The HECAT includes nine health-related topic modules, including Alcohol and Other Drugs and Tobacco. The tool details health behavior outcomes (HBOs) to be addressed by health education curricula. Schools can use these topic-specific HBOs to help evaluate existing substance use prevention programs or use as the foundation for creating new curricula.

Search Tools for Evidence Based Interventions

· SAMHSA’s Finding Evidence-based Programs and Practices is a resource to find information on evidence-based prevention programs and practices for prevention practitioners and individuals working in related behavioral health fields

· IES’ What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) reviews the existing research on different programs, products, practices, and policies in education. Their goal is to provide educators with the information they need to make evidence-based decisions.

Excessive Alcohol Use Prevention Background Information

· Preventing Excessive Alcohol Use lists strategies that can help communities create social and physical environments that discourage excessive alcohol consumption thereby, reducing alcohol-related fatalities, costs, and other harms.

· CDC information, data, and resources on underage drinking can be found here.

· CDC information, data and resources on binge drinking and binge drinking prevention can be found here Effective Population-Level Prevention Strategies

· The Community Guide Chapter on Excessive Alcohol Consumption is a collection of evidence-based findings of the Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF). It is a resource to help selection of interventions to improve health and prevent disease in your state, community, community organization, business, healthcare organization, or school.

· CDC’s Prevention Status Reports on Alcohol-Related Harms focuses on evidence-based policies recommended by the Community Preventive Services Task Force for preventing alcohol-related harms.

· ChangeLab Solutions’ Alcohol-Related Harms: Prevention Status Reports provide an overview of alcohol taxes, commercial host liability, and reduced alcohol outlet density strategies for public health professionals and stakeholders

· CADCA’s Regulating Alcohol Outlet Density: An Action Guide outlines available evidence-based community prevention strategies shown to decrease the consequences associated with alcohol outlet density, the concentration of bars, restaurants serving alcohol, liquor and package stores in a given geographic area.

· CADCA’s Reducing Alcohol-Related Harms Through Commercial Host Liability introduces public health departments, community coalitions and other interested organizations and individuals to commercial host liability as a public health intervention to reduce the health and social problems associated with excessive alcohol use.

Violence Prevention Technical Packages

· CDC’s A Comprehensive Technical Package for the Prevention of Youth Violence and Associated Risk Behaviors represents a select group of strategies based on the best available evidence to help communities and states sharpen their focus on prevention activities with the greatest potential to prevent youth violence and its consequences.

· CDC’s Preventing Intimate Partner Violence Across the Lifespan: A Technical Package of Policy, Programs, and Practices offers a select group of strategies based on the best available evidence to help communities and states sharpen their focus on prevention activities with the greatest potential to prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) and its consequences across the lifespan.

· CDC’s Preventing Suicide: A Technical Package of Policy, Programs, and Practices represents a select group of strategies based on the best available evidence to help communities and states sharpen their focus on prevention activities with the greatest potential to prevent suicide.

· CDC’s STOP SV: A Technical Package to Prevent Sexual Violence represents a select group of strategies based on the best available evidence to help communities and states sharpen their focus on prevention activities with the greatest potential to reduce sexual violence (SV) and its consequences.

· CDC’s Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect: A Technical Package for Policy, Norm, and Programmatic Activities represents a select group of strategies based on the best available evidence to help prevent child abuse and neglect.

· CDC’s Violence Prevention in Practice | VetoViolence (cdc.gov) helps communities select and implement the strategies presented in the technical package.

· CDC background information and data resources on violence prevention in youth can be found here.

ACEs Resources

· Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences: Leveraging the Best Available Evidence is a resource to help states and communities leverage the best available evidence to prevent ACEs from happening in the first place as well as lessen harms when ACEs do occur. It features six strategies drawn from the CDC Technical Packages to Prevent Violence.

· CDC background information on ACEs, including publications, presentation graphics and data sources can be found here Smoking and Health Background Information

· CDC’s Quick Facts on the Risks of E-cigarettes for Kids, Teens, and Young Adults provides information, data and resources on e-cigarette use in youth.

· The Tobacco Control Vaccine BMJ article provides “a population-based framework for preventing tobacco-related disease and death.”

· CDC’s E-cigarettes and Youth: What Parents Need to Know is a fact-sheet designed to provide information on the risks of e-cigarette use in youth.

· The Tobacco Control Network contains a listing of state and territorial representatives as well as staff contacts, web and social media links, and seminal documents for the tobacco control agencies that are funded by CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) in each state and territory.

Best Practice User Guides Comment by Voetsch, Karen P. (CDC/DDNID/NCIPC/DOP): look at CADCA presentation for updated and relevant OSH resources Comment by Fogarty, Hannah (CDC/DDNID/NCIPC/DOP): Added!

· CDC’s Best Practices Guide for Youth Engagement contains strategies to engage youth in tobacco prevention efforts that can be adapted to other programs.

· CDC’s Best Practices User Guide: Health Equity presents how comprehensive tobacco control programs can work to achieve health equity in tobacco prevention and control.

· CDC’s Best Practices User Guide: Cessation focuses on how comprehensive tobacco control programs can promote cessation through population-wide efforts.

· CDC’s Best Practices User Guide: Health Communications focuses on how comprehensive tobacco control programs can deliver effective health communications.

· CDC’s Office of Smoking and Health’s Media Campaign Resource Center (MCRC) acts as a source for free and low-cost tobacco education campaign materials.

· CDC’s resources on training effectiveness Opioids Strategies to Prevent Prescription Opioid Misuse

· CDC’s Rx Awareness Campaign website provides community education on the dangers of youth opioid and/or prescription drug use/misuse

· Evidence-Based Strategies for Preventing Opioid Overdose, serves as an introduction to 10 opioid overdose prevention strategies for community leaders, public heath, law enforcement, local organizations, and others striving to serve their community.

· CDC’s guidance on promising strategies states have used to address prescription drug misuse, abuse, and overdose.

Strategies for Community-wide Prevention of Prescription Drugs

· CADCA’s Online PreventMedAbuse Toolkit contains facts, strategies and tools to prevent and reduce teen Rx and over-the-counter (OTC) medicine abuse in communities. This resource is based on CADCA’s Seven Strategies for Effective Community Change. Incorporating these strategies will help communities formulate, modify and implement prevention and intervention strategies.

· The 2018 Overdose Response Strategy Cornerstone Project is part of the Overdose Response Strategy, a public health-public safety collaboration between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and 11 High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA). The 2018 project explores public safety-led linkage to care programs.

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