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Building a Successful Prevention Program

Step 3 - Prioritizing Step 4 - Resource Assessment Step 5 - Focusing Efforts Step 6 - Best Practices Step 2 - Needs Assessment Step 7 - Evaluation Step 1 - Community Readiness and Mobilization


What's New?

How Do These Steps Overlay the Strategic Prevention Framework?


  • Step 1:  Is your community ready for prevention? (Assess community readiness and mobilize the community)
  • Step 2:  What are your community’s greatest needs for prevention? (Conduct a needs assessment)
  • Step 3:  Which risk and protective factors are your priorities? (Translate needs indicator data into risk and protective factors)
  • Step 4:  What resources already exist in your community that address the risk and protective factors that you have prioritized? (Conduct a resource assessment)
  • Step 5:  Where will you focus your prevention efforts? (Select universal, selective, or indicated strategies)
  • Step 6:  Which prevention strategies have been shown through research to be effective? (Select scientifically-defensible best practices to implement)
  • Step 7 :  How will you evaluate your prevention program? (Conduct evaluation planning, implementation, analysis, and use results for future program planning)

NOTE:  Although other frameworks of prevention exist, this website includes information based on the risk and protective factor framework of prevention due to the needs of the states requesting the information included.

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