Training Overview

Risk and Protective Factors to ATOD Prevention

Overview of the risk and protective factors conceptual framework for planning, implementation, and evaluation of evidence-based prevention programs and practices.

Target Audience:
Coalitions, community and faith-based organizations, school personnel, counselors, social workers, parent groups and any other individual interested in prevention programming. Training for prevention specialists may include additional information on resiliency and prevention research.
 
Training Objectives:
Participants will be able to:
  1. Describe the risk and protective factors conceptual framework common to ATOD, violence, delinquency, school dropout, teen pregnancy, and suicide.
  2. Describe key risk and protective factors in the six life domains.
  3. Explain CSAP’s Web of Influence Model.
  4. Describe the assumptions and generalizations about the risk and protective factors.
  5. Identify risk-focused prevention principles.
  6. Relate the framework to their practice scenario.
Format:
Combination of lecture, group activities, and case studies for the application of concepts.
 
Number of Participants:
30-40
 
Time Frame:
4-5 hours

 

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