Training Overview

Sustainability

Just what is “sustainability”? Everybody’s talking about it. Most conferences have at least one workshop on it, grant announcements require a statement about it. It’s in big demand. But what is “it”? Is it money? Programs? Infrastructure? The answer is yes, yes, yes. Sustainability refers to each of these and more.

Sustainability is “the process of ensuring an adaptive and effective substance abuse prevention system that achieves long term results that benefit a target population.” Sustainability is a process not a result. It is a verb, not a noun. It is circular, not linear. The stages in the sustainability process—assessing challenges, developing a plan, executing, evaluating, and modifying the plan as needed—denote action, not stability. Sustainability involves focusing on the characteristics of the infrastructure that need to be sustained in order to continue to meet the needs of a target population with effective prevention interventions. These two are inextricably linked and must be addressed together.

Target Audience:
Coalitions, preventionists, and prevention system managers.
 
Training Objectives:
This workshop will cover:
  1. The research underlying the sustainability planning model.
  2. Key actions to demonstrate effectiveness of a preventive intervention.
  3. Key actions to cultivate systems support for a preventive intervention and its outcomes.
  4. Key actions to assure organizational capacity for a preventive intervention and its outcomes.
  5. Considerations for determining your readiness to engage in sustainability planning.
Format:
Lecture/Presentation with discussion and/or individual or team work
 
Number of Participants:
30
 
Time Frame:
1 day

 

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