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Prevention Principles and Strategies
- Lang, C. and Krongard, M. (1999). Strengthening
Families and Protecting Children from Substance Abuse, Appendix
B: Improving the Larger Environment. Newton : MA: CSAP's Northeast Center
for the Application of Prevention Technologies.
This practical guide focuses on what families, with the support of practitioners,
can do to support the healthy development of their children and youth
from birth to age 17. Its purpose is to assist practitioners in selecting
effective prevention strategies and adopting, adapting, and/or designing
programs that are likely to achieve the outcomes they and their clients
want.
- Robertson, E. B., David, S. L., and Rao, S. A. (2003). Preventing
Drug Use among Children and Adolescents: A Research-Based Guide for
Parents, Educators and Community Leaders, second edition. Bethesda
, MD : National Institute on Drug Abuse.
This guide, organized around the 16 prevention principles, provides
useful information on topics such as risk and protective factors, planning
for drug abuse prevention in the community, and applying prevention
principles to drug abuse prevention programs. It also includes examples
of evidence-based drug abuse prevention programs and selected resources
and references.
- Rothschild, M. (1999) Carrots,
sticks and promises: A conceptual framework for the management of public
health and social issues behavior. Journal of Marketing,
63: 23 - 47.
This article presents a framework for considering public health and
social issues behavior based on self-interest, exchange, competition,
free choice and externalities. The author maintains that influencing
lifestyle can do more to increase the health of a population and reduce
the costs of health care than treating illness.
- Snyder L. B., Hamilton, M. A., Mitchell, E. W., Kiwanuka-Tondo, J.,
Fleming-Milici, F., and Proctor, D. (2004). A meta-analysis of the effect
of mediated health communication campaigns on behavior change in the
United States . Journal of Health Communication, 9:
71 - 96.
The authors conducted a meta-analysis of studies of media campaigns
to determine their effectiveness in creating health-related behavior
change.
Research to Practice
- Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. (2001). Closing
the Gap between Research and Practice: Lessons of the First Three Years
of CSAP's National CAPT System. Rockville , MD : Center for
Substance Abuse Prevention, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration.
This manual presents lessons learned related to: motivating the field
to embrace proven or promising methods for prevention planning, implementation
and evaluation; promoting application of evidence-based approaches to
prevention practice; and supporting the on-going implementation of evidence-based
prevention in day-to-day prevention practice.
- Dearing J. W. (2004). Improving the state of health programming by
using diffusion theory. Journal of Health Communication, 9:
21 - 36.
This article outlines implementation steps for narrowing the widening
gap between what is known about health behavior change and what is actually
put into practice in social programming.
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- Plested, B., Edwards, R., and Jumper-Thurman, P. (2003). Community
Readiness: The Key to Successful Change. Tri-Ethnic Center
for Prevention Research.
Understanding the concept of community readiness and how to utilize
knowledge of readiness to garner community support can significantly
increase the potential for successful change. This easy-to-use field
guide presents a model for assessing readiness according to six dimensions:
existing community efforts; the community's knowledge of these efforts;
leadership; overall community climate; knowledge/awareness of the issue
within the community; and resources.
- U.S. Department of Education. (2004). Prevention Terminology: A Guideline
for Effective Communication (draft).
This report is intended to provide guidance on the language of the alcohol
and other drug problem prevention field that is thoughtful and reflective.
It is designed to help people understand the impact that language and
terminology can have on the messages they are trying to communicate.
Collaboration
- Torres, G. W. and Margolin, F. S. (2003). The
collaboration primer: Proven strategies, considerations, and tools to
get you started. Chicago , IL : Health Research & Educational
Trust.
This straightforward manual describes different types of collaborative
relationships and ways to organize for success. It includes a checklist
of questions and issues to consider before embarking on a collaborative
arrangement, examples of model collaborations, and a tool to asses the
status of your collaborative effort.
- Walsh, J. (1998). The
Eye of the Storm: Ten Years on the Front Lines of New Futures.
An Interview with Otis Johnson and Don Crary. Baltimore , MD : Annie
E. Casey Foundation.
Johnson and Crary, two pioneers in the community-building field, These
provide candid and instructive reflections and recommendations about
the work of comprehensive community change and their experiences with
the Foundation's New Futures initiative.
Epidemiology
- Coggon, D., Rose, G., and Barker, D. J. P. (1997). Epidemiology
for the uninitiated. BMJ Publishing Group.
This epidemiology primer offers a straightforward and jargon-free introduction
to the principles of epidemiology. Though the book focuses primarily
on the application of epidemiology in the healthcare setting, these
concepts translate easily to public health applications, as well.
Evaluation
- Schwandt, T. A. (2005). The centrality of practice to evaluation.
American
Journal of Evaluation, 26
(1): 95 - 105.
This article discusses two different ways in which notions of evidence
based, practice, and evaluation are related and
suggests what a genuinely practice-oriented approach to evaluation entails.
Fidelity and Adaptation
- Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. (2002). Finding
the Balance: Program Fidelity and Adaptation in Substance Abuse Prevention.
Rockville , MD : Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Substance Abuse
and Mental Health Services Administration.
Attention to both program fidelity and adaptation during the complex
process of program implementation is critical to successful, sustained
implementation of evidence-based substance abuse prevention programs.
This document proposes an initial set of guidelines for program implementers
for balancing fidelity and adaptation issues.
- Dusenbury, L, Brannigan, R., Falco, M., and Hansen, W. B. (2003).
A review of research on fidelity of implementation: Implications for
drug abuse prevention in school settings. Health Education and Research,
18(2): 237 - 256.
This article presents findings from a review of the fidelity of implementation
research literature. Inconsistencies of definitions and measures of
fidelity across studies are discussed.
Leadership Development
- Kotter, J. P. (Fall, 1998). Winning
at change. Leader to Leader, 10:27 - 33.
Focusing on the process of leading change, this article suggests three
key tasks for change leaders: managing multiple time lines, building
coalitions, and creating a vision.
Sustainability
- Johnson, K., Hays, C., Center, H., and Daley, C. (2004). Building
capacity and sustainable prevention innovations: A sustainability planning
model. Evaluation
and Program Planning, 27:135
-149.
This article presents a 5-step planning model for sustaining program
infrastructure and interventions within organizational, community, and
state systems. A sustainability action strategy and tools to assist
in implementation are also presented.
- Meadows, D. (1999). Leverage
Points: Places to Intervene in a System. The Sustainability
Institute.
The paper explores the kinds of actions that really make a difference
in changing the behavior of a system. Many interventions that seem logical
often turn out to be counter-productive. Understanding the systems and
dynamics involved provide a clearer context for determining actions.
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation and The Healthcare Forum. Sustaining
Community Based Initiatives: Developing Community Capacity, Module One.
Author.
This is the first of three modules designed to help Kellogg grantees'
build capacity within their community-based organizations and sustain
the work they do.
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