Selecting Appropriate Prevention Programs

Target Audience:   State-level and community-level prevention practitioners with an interest in selecting the most appropriate evidence-based prevention program to meet their needs. This workshop is appropriate for participants with a basic level of experience in this area.

Training Objectives: Participants will be able to:

• Increase their understanding of the logic model as a framework for
designing effective prevention programs
• Identify criteria to guide the selection of appropriate prevention
programs from a set of evidence-based programs
• Determine the fit between organizational capacity and program
requirements
• Increase their understanding of program adaptation, program
replication, and their relationship to organizational capacity

Format of Training: This training explores the following topics:overview of science-based prevention and the logic model, organizational readiness and implementation of science-based programs, feasibility assessment and its relationship to program fidelity, program replication and adaptation issues.

CSAP's Northeast CAPT trainers will use the following techniques throughout this workshop:

• Presentation of background material
• Small group work that challenges participants to examine the
effectiveness of real world cases of prevention
• Large group discussion designed to draw lessons and experiences
from participants

Timeframe: Approximately 2-3 hours. Can be modified by including optional modules on specific topics, going deeper into one subject or covering a topic more briefly.

Number of Participants: Minimum of 10 up to a maximum of 50 participants

These trainings are available from CSAP’s Northeast CAPT. For more information please contact the Single State Agency in your state or call Deborah McLean Leow at 888-EDC-CAPT or email her at capt@edc.org.