| Title | Description | Type | Year Added | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evaluation Organizations |
This document includes an annotated list of organizations on evaluation. Many of these provide training and technical assistance. |
Training and Technical Assistance Tools | 2012 | |
| Evaluation Tools and Resources |
The sites included in this document provide tools, aides, tip sheets and other resources to support with the planning and management, implementation and analysis of data and evaluations. |
Training and Technical Assistance Tools | 2012 | |
| Evidence-based Prevention: The New York State of Mind |
Barry Donovan, of New York’s Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Services, describes steps OASAS has taken to ensure that its funded providers implement evidence-based programming. |
Video | 2012 | |
| Examining Data: The Value of Comparisons |
This tip sheet explores the value of looking at comparison data. |
Training and Technical Assistance Tools | 2012 | |
| Factors that Contribute to Capacity Building and Sustainability |
This document presents a model practitioners can use to build the organizational infrastructure necessary to sustain effective prevention policies, systems, and programs. |
Training and Technical Assistance Tools | 2010 | |
| Feasibility Toolkit |
This toolkit is designed to help practitioners assess fit between the specific implementation requirements of an EBI and population needs, organizational capacity, and community conditions. |
Training and Technical Assistance Tools | 2010 | |
| Financial Sustainability: Tips from the Field |
This document offers general tips for ensuring the financial sustainability of a prevention program. |
Training and Technical Assistance Tools | 2010 | |
| Finding Data on Risk Factors for Underage Drinking |
This table presents some risk factors for underage drinking and where to go to find related data. |
Training and Technical Assistance Tools | 2012 | |
| Finding Evidence-based Programs and Practices | NEW |
This document includes links to federal registries and resources for evidence-based prevention and intervention programs (including environmental strategies) related to public health topics such... |
Training and Technical Assistance Tools | 2013 |
| Finding Health Data on LGBTQ Populations |
This webinar, offered by the CAPT’s Southeast Resource Team, identifies specific data gathering techniques as well as case examples. |
T/TA Spotlight | 2012 | |
| Five Strategies for Better Webinars |
This document offers the do's and dont's of five key strategies to hosting successful webinars. |
Training and Technical Assistance Tools | 2012 | |
| General Data Portals |
This resource includes an annotated list of websites that provide access to, or guidelines for how to access, a wide range of public health data for multiple geographic areas. |
Training and Technical Assistance Tools | 2012 | |
| General Evaluation Portals |
This document offers an annotated list of general portals related to evaluation. |
Training and Technical Assistance Tools | 2012 | |
| Good TA: Going the Extra Mile |
Senior Behavioral Scientist Matthew Chinman of the Rand Corporation presents some important elements of effective technical assistance. |
Video | 2012 | |
| Guidelines for Determining if a Prevention Program, Policy, or Strategy is Evidence-Based |
This document presents SAMHSA's guidelines for determining if a prevention program, policy, or strategy is evidence-based. |
Training and Technical Assistance Tools | 2010 | |
| Health System Measurement Project Tool |
This web-based tool tracks government data on critical U.S. health system indicators. The website presents national trend data as well as detailed views broken out by population characteristics... |
Training and Technical Assistance Tools | 2012 | |
| Hiring an Evaluator |
This document provides advice on how to locate and hire an evaluator, whether the project is going to hire and put the evaluator on staff or contract out for evaluation services. |
Training and Technical Assistance Tools | 2012 | |
| Identifying and Selecting Evidence-Based Interventions |
This document can help State and community planners identify and select evidence-based interventions that address local needs and reduce substance abuse problems. |
Training and Technical Assistance Tools | 2010 | |
| Implementation Science: Current Research |
This document includes a collection of key research articles, issue briefs, and monographs that address the topic of implementation science. |
Training and Technical Assistance Tools | 2013 | |
| Implementing Policy Change: The Role of Enforcement |
If laws and regulations are going to deter people and businesses from illegal behaviors, they must be accompanied by significant penalties, and they must be enforced. In this video, Jessica... |
Video | 2012 | |
| Incorporating Prevention into Mental Health Settings |
Dr. Michael T. Compton, presents opportunities for practicing mental health clinicians to become more prevention-minded in their work |
Video | 2012 | |
| Introduction to Biostatistics |
This resource, developed at Loyola University Chicago, offers an overview of concepts including sampling and estimation, simulation, error analysis, and precision versus confidence. |
Training and Technical Assistance Tools | 2012 | |
| Introduction to Extended-Release Injectable Naltrexone for the Treatment of People with Opioid Dependence |
This document gives an overview of extended-release injectable naltrexone (Vivitrol), a treatment for people with opioid dependence. |
Training and Technical Assistance Tools | 2012 | |
| IOM The Mental Health and Substance Use Workforce for Older Adults |
This document, created by the Institute of Medicine, discusses the unique challenges for the care of older adults with mental health and substance use conditions. |
Training and Technical Assistance Tools | 2012 | |
| Kentucky Meets the Gold Standard for Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs | NEW |
More states are turning to prescription drug monitoring programs, or PDMPs, to help stem the growing problem of prescription drug abuse. Kentucky, which launched its PDMP in 1999, has strengthened... |
Grantee Stories | 2013 |
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