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This toolkit guides prevention practitioners in establishing and sustaining data workgroups essential for data-informed decision-making. These workgroups, integral to SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework, locate, analyze, and disseminate crucial substance misuse data.
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This toolkit equips prevention practitioners with the tools and guidance needed to conduct effective focus groups, fostering open dialogue, and gathering valuable insights from diverse stakeholders. By integrating focus groups throughout the prevention process and developing clear protocols, practitioners can tailor discussions to address specific community needs and inform evidence-based strategies.
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This grantee success story exemplifies the collaborative efforts of prevention practitioners in Franklin County as they address the opioid crisis through early childhood interventions. They've achieved significant milestones by embracing a deliberate, inclusive, and collaborative approach that places the experiences of community members with lived experience at the heart of their strategies.
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This grantee success story illustrates how a Partnerships For Success (PFS) grantee in rural Arkansas successfully collaborated with their local Boys and Girls Club to combat youth substance misuse. It serves as a prime example of a community-driven prevention approach, underlining the value of collaboration, local insights, and trusted messengers in achieving effective youth substance misuse prevention.
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This grantee success story showcases the collaborative efforts of the Opioid Prevention and Treatment Task Force in combating opioid misuse in the Carolinas. With a particular focus on LGBTQ+ and PLWHA communities, the story highlights their success through champion support, data-driven collaboration, and a transition from competition to fruitful collaboration.
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This activity can help grantees better understand the skills and expertise that current partners bring to the prevention table.
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This worksheet helps prevention teams in assessing their readiness to engage in collaboration.
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This tool presents opportunities for collaborating at each step of the SPF.
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This worksheet helps grantees identify and recruit new partners through a health equity lens.
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This tool presents case examples of fictional communities each dealing with distinct challenges related to opioid misuse and overdoses. It outlines how these communities applied the five steps of the SPF to tackle their opioid-related issues, providing insights into addressing the epidemic and informing future strategic planning efforts for prevention practitioners.