Technical Assistance and Capacity Building
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Substance Use Prevention Communications Toolkit
YOUR VOICE COUNTS when it comes to preventing substance use in youth. This toolkit teaches effective ways to communicate and make your voice heard. As educators, parents, caregivers, public safety professionals, and healthcare professionals, we all have a role in preventing onset and escalation of substance use in youth aged 12-18. (PDF 8MB)
SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework
Learn how to use SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF). The five steps and two guiding principles of the SPF offer prevention planners a comprehensive approach to understanding and addressing the substance misuse and related behavioral health problems facing their community
What Works (& Doesn't Work) in Substance Use Prevention
As a part of ADAPT’s Fundamentals of Substance Use Prevention series, What Works (& Doesn't Work) in Substance Use Prevention Webinar shares what we know about effective drug prevention approaches and programs and how to improve the work you are doing in drug prevention.
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Podcasts
Stay in the loop with the latest from our team: conversations, insights, and behind-the-scenes updates straight from the people doing the work.
Hour 2 - A deadly Bay Area crash involving teens raises tough questions after it was revealed the students had attended a drunk-driving awareness program just hours earlier. Guest Robert LaChausse, psychologist at California Baptist University, joins the show to explain why fear-based education and scare tactics often fail to create lasting behavioral change. Plus, outrage erupts at a Southern California school after a photo of water polo players in Speedos sparks demands for resignations.
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For well over 50 years, prevention science has generated practices and policies that have improved countless lives throughout the lifespan by avoiding negative health and social outcomes (e.g., substance use disorder, academic failure, violence, mental illness) and strengthening conditions that enable individuals, families, and communities to thrive. The NPSC is dedicated to improving the reach and impact of prevention science. Join host Dr. Robert LaChausse as he interviews the most influential researchers, practitioners, and policymakers working in the field of prevention science. Each episode contains engaging conversations with powerful information to help you stay abreast of the field, connect with others like you who are doing important prevention work, and tips for improving your work and navigating the policy-making process.