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Assess needs to determine the nature and magnitude of alcohol abuse among students in the particular school community

• Online Course: Data Collection Methods: Getting Down to Basics
• Online Course: What Now: Effective and Useful Data Presentation
• Tip Sheet: Understanding Data Collection, Why and How to Use Existing Data
• Tip Sheet: Pros and Cons of Data Collection Methods
• Guidance: GRAA GPRA Performance Reporting Guidance Document
• Tip Sheet: Guidelines For Building an Assessment Team – NE CAPT

Prioritize data on risk and protective factors, which influence underage drinking, to inform strategy selection

• Article: Developing Healthy Communities: A Risk and Protective Factor Approach
• TIP Sheet: Sources of Local Data – NE CAPT
• Literature: Literature to Support Risk and Protective Factors for Underage Alcohol Use

Conduct focus groups, as approved by GRAA Project Officer, enhancing grantee skills to collect anecdotal data on consumption and consequence patterns and other factors influencing underage drinking in the school community

• Online Course: Data Collection Methods: Getting Down to Basics : Module 5: Using Focus Groups
• Tip Sheet: Focus Group Principles and Practice – NE CAPT
• Guide: Preventing Underage Drinking: Using the SAMHSA Strategic Prevention Framework and Getting to Outcomes to Achieve Result

Build capacity, including human, technical and financial resources

• Guide: Tri-ethnic Center Readiness Model
• TIP Sheet: Assessing Organizational Structure and Function – NE CAPT
• Guidance Doc: Community Readiness : Western CAPT

Enhance group facilitation skills for coalition leaders and model program implementers

• Guide: Facilitation Guide for People in Prevention – Southwest CAPT

Build coalitions to enhance school and community support and improve sustainability efforts

• Primer: Capacity Primer: Building Membership, Structure, Leadership and Cultural Competence - CADCA

Work with school and community stakeholders to develop memoranda of understanding (MOU)

• Website: Strengthening Partnerships Toolkit – CADCA

Participate in the Substance Abuse Prevention Specialist Training (SAPST)

• Overview: SAPST Curriculum Overview – West CAPT
• Guide: International Certification Examination for Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Abuse Prevention Specialists – Candidate Guide

Mobilize Communities to Build School and Community Support

• Book: The Collaboration Primer

Create action and strategic plans for building comprehensive approaches to addressing underage drinking

• Online Course: Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover: Using Feasibility Assessment to Select Prevention Programs – NE CAPT Course
• Online Course: Introduction to Evidence-based Prevention – NE CAPT Course
• Reference: Getting Prevention Results – A Planning Process
• Online Course: Foundations in Prevention Course - CSAP

Conduct media-related strategies to support comprehensive approaches, including creating social marketing campaigns, enhancing media literacy, and utilizing media advocacy to support environmental prevention strategies

• TIP Sheet: Social Marketing Fidelity Rubric  and   Creative Blueprint
• Reference: Logic Model Development Guide – Kellogg Foundation
• Guide: Constructing a Strategy Prioritization Matrix

Access current prevention research findings related to underage drinking prevention to inform evidence-based approaches

• Resource: Substance Abuse Prevention Research Finding – West CAPT
• Online Course: Involving Youth in Your Substance Abuse Prevention Program – NE CAPT Course
• Study: Underage Alcohol Use: Findings from the 2002-2006 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health - NSDUH

Incorporate environmental strategies to inform policy development and enforcement related to underage drinking, as well as creating healthy community norms

• Tip Sheet: Environment Strategies for Prevention: A Guide to Helping the Prevention Professional Work Effectively in the Community
• Guidance Doc.: Regulatory Strategies for Preventing Youth Access to Alcohol: Best Practices
• Online Course: Environmental Strategies For Prevention : CSAP Pathways Course
• Web Page: Changing The Larger Environment: Critical Components – NE CAPT

Consider fidelity and adaptation issues, along with cultural competency considerations.

• Guideline: Assessing Program Fidelity and Adaptations - EDC

• Research: Research on Core Implementation Components– A Synthesis of the Literature
• FAQ: Connecting Across Diverse Populations- EDC
• Research: The Cultural Adaptation of Prevention Interventions: Resolving Tensions Between Fidelity and Fit
• Web Page: FAQs--Program Design, Implementation, and Adaptation – NE CAPT
• Book: Choosing and Adapting Culturally and Linguistically Competent Health Promotion Materials - National Center for Cultural Competence
• Book: Building Culturally and Linguistically Competent Services to Support Young Children, Their Families, and School Readiness – Annie E. Casey Foundation
• Guide: Planning for Cultural and Linguistic Competence in State Title V Programs
• Guide: Prevent and Reduce Underage Drinking – The Surgeon Generals Guide For Educators

Address implementation issues by serving in liaison roles with model program developers

• Web Site:   Contact The Developer – NREPP   Click Find Interventions, then scroll to Contacts -   http://www.nrepp.samhsa.gov/index.asp

• TIP Sheet: Questions to Ask Developers - NREPP
• Guide: Finding the Balance: Program Fidelity and Adaptation in Substance Abuse Prevention - CSAP

Develop evaluation plan

• Handouts: Evaluation 101 NE CAPT Service to Science Training
• Sample: Commonly Used Evaluation Designs
• Guidance: Items to Include in Your Evaluation Plan
• Sample: Sample Evaluation Plan

Working with an evaluator

• Online Course: Locating, Hiring, and Managing an Evaluator – NE CAPT Course
• Sample: Sample Evaluation Contract
• Sample: Sample Evaluation Budget
• Web Site: American Evaluation Association Evaluator Search
  http://eval.org/find_an_evaluator/evaluator_search.asp

Develop logic models to ensure that chosen strategies link logically with community needs regarding underage drinking prevention

• Guidance Doc. : Prevention of Underage Drinking: Logic Model Documentation - PIRE
• Worksheet: Logic Model Worksheet – NE CAPT Excel Workbook

Conduct process and outcome evaluations to assess program/strategy effectiveness and to guide continuous quality improvement

• Guidance Doc.: Evaluation Handbook: Philosophy and Expectations - Kellogg Foundation
• Instrument: Instrument for Evaluation of Prevention:   12 Years & Younger
• Instrument: Instrument for Evaluation of Prevention:   Adolescents & Teenagers
• Instrument:Instrument for Evaluation of Prevention:   Young Adult
• Measures: Additional   Approved GPRA Measures

Incorporate multiple evaluation strategies, including both quantitative and qualitative methods

• Online Course: Evaluation for The Unevaluated (101 and 102): CSAP Pathways Course(s)

Data Reporting

• Online Course: What Now? Effective and Useful Data Presentation

Sustain prevention programs beyond GRAA funding

• Web Page: FAQs—Sustainability – NE CAPT
• Guidance: Using Evaluation for Sustainability
• Workbook: The Finance Project Sustainability Workbook
• Web Site: Clearinghouse on Expanding and Sustaining Youth Programs and Policies – The Finance Project - http://www.financeproject.org/index.cfm?page=30
• Directory: National Coordinating Committee on School Health and Safety – School Health Funding - http://mchb.hrsa.gov/healthystudents/resources/

Incorporate current research findings related to cultural competence to inform work with diverse populations

• Handout: Seven Domains of Cultural Competency – CSAP / HRSA
• Chapter: The Cultural Context of Prevention – SAPST Training Chapter Five
• Web Page: FAQs Diverse Populations – NE CAPT Web Page
• Handout: Key Elements to Enhance Cultural Competence – NE CAPT
• Handout: SPF Guidelines for Cultural Competence – NE CAPT
• Primer: Incorporating Cultural Competence Into Your Comprehensive Plan - CADCA
• Website: DiversityData.org