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Supplemental Project E: SAMHSA's
Science-to-Service Initiative
Core to the purpose of the CAPTs is the provision of analytic technical
assistance to States, communities and local organizations to guide strategic
selection and use of evidence-based prevention interventions that effectively
address community needs. Through this Special Project, the Southeast CAPT
will implement an interactive “learning community” approach,
that will join current and potential new implementers with developers/experts
from selected evidence-based interventions to discuss the underlying theory
base of their intervention (what works and why) and real-world implementation
issues facing practitioners in the field.
CSAP’s Strategic Prevention Framework will provide the context
in which to examine the potential “fit” and utility of the
logic model inherent in specific evidence-based interventions to local
circumstances of participants—i.e., focus on the systematic linkage
of an empirically identified problem/condition, to strategies/activities
directed to address it, to outcomes expected all along the way. Through
a learning-community approach and hands-on technical assistance, the Southeast
CAPT will apply the concepts of CSAP’s Strategic Prevention Framework
to guide participants through a logical thought process as they examine
and learn about specific evidence-based interventions (focusing on both
the intervention’s underlying theory base and implementation experiences
of current implementers). The goal of this project is to assist States
and communities in applying the knowledge and experiential learning drawn
from specific evidence-based interventions to inform and improve decisions
on selection, implementation, and use of these interventions to effectively
address local needs.
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