Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

Training and Technical Assistance Tools

Title Description Developed By Year Added
Checklists for Assessing Readiness to Undertake Community Collaboration

This document contains four checklists that practitioners can use to assess individual, group, organizational, and community readiness to undertake community collaboration.

 CAPT 2010
Common Risk and Protective Factors for Alcohol and Drug Use

This document presents literature-supported risk and protective factors for alcohol and drug use.

 CAPT 2010
Community Tool Box

The Community Tool Box website contains numerous tools and resources designed to help practitioners support community health and development. There are sections on leadership, strategic planning, community assessment, advocacy, grant writing, and evaluation.

 External 2012
Components of an Effective Coalition

This document presents three components of an effective coalition: organizational structure, membership, and sustainability.

 CAPT 2010
Conceptual Fit: Sample Risk Factors and Interventions for Underage Drinking

This chart includes examples of prevention interventions that are a good conceptual fit for a variety of risk factors for underage drinking.

 CAPT 2013
Creation, Function, and Structure of Evidence-Based Workgroups

This document reviews some of the similarities and differences experienced in the creation, functioning, and structure of Evidence-Based Workgroups.

 CAPT 2012
Criteria for Analyzing Assessment Data

This document offers criteria prevention practitioners can use to analyze their assessment data including magnitude, impact, changeability, concentrated occurrence, and consumption/consequence.

 CAPT 2010
Culturally Competent Organizations

This document outlines some of the important characteristics of a culturally competent organization.

 CAPT 2012
Data Collection Methods: Pros & Cons

This chart presents a snapshot of the pros and cons of 13 different data collection methods.

 CAPT 2012
Data-Based Planning for Effective Prevention: State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroups

This document presents the core expectations of the State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroups, multiagency groups charged with collecting, analyzing, and disseminating substance abuse data.

 External 2012
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