Prevention Strategies
CSAP’s Northeast CAPT has identified seven key prevention strategies
shown by research to be effective.
Click below to learn more about each of these prevention strategies:
• Policy
• Enforcement
• Collaboration
• Communications
• Education
• Early Intervention
• Alternatives
The following resources also provide useful information on evidence-based strategies:
Prevention: What's Science Got to Do with It? (Acrobat 24 pages)
This digest provides information on all seven of the prevention strategies.
Multiple
Strategies Video
Using multiple strategies in multiple ways, working toward a few common
goals, offers the best chance to prevent young people from using alcohol,
tobacco, and other drugs. Produced by CSAP’s Northeast CAPT, this
video highlights the work of the Gloucester Prevention Network and how
this agency used multiple strategies to reduce substance use in its community.
This video is accessible using windows media player 9 series for Windows 98 2nd ed., Me, and 2000. Click here to download this video. Click here for a video transcript.
Improving the Larger Environment (Webpage,
Acrobat 16 pages)
This document offers more information on environmental change as an effective
approach to prevention.
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