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Critical Components of Prevention

As prevention practitioners implementing programs in schools, communities, clinics, agencies, or other settings, it is critical to identify and use evidence-based strategies that are likely to be most effective in meeting the needs of the people with whom you work. When you base your program on a set of strategies proven effective through rigorous evaluation, you increase the likelihood that you will reduce substance abuse. CSAP's Northeast CAPT has put together a series of prevention critical component documents that highlight effective prevention practices by domain. These documents include the following:

• Changing the Larger Environment: Critical Components

• Family-based Prevention: Critical Components

• School-based Prevention: Critical Components

• Science-based Prevention Strategies

• Strengthening Families and Protecting Children from Substance Abuse