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This interactive, self-paced online tool is designed to educate prevention professionals about factors influencing excessive drinking in adulthood. It presents a detailed exploration of the latest research, organized according to the four levels of the CDC’s Social-Ecological Model (SEM)—individual, relationship, community, and societal.

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This tool equips prevention practitioners with essential insights into the unique challenges and opportunities of addressing substance use in rural communities. By defining "rural," outlining substance use patterns, and identifying key barriers like isolation and limited resources, it helps practitioners develop tailored strategies to effectively reduce substance use and improve health outcomes in rural settings.

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This resource offers best practices for planning, implementing, and evaluating data dashboards in substance misuse prevention. It covers defining scope, understanding audience needs, choosing technology, selecting data sources, incorporating user-friendly design, and evaluating the dashboard’s effectiveness to support data-driven decision-making and community impact.

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This tool provides prevention planners with evidence-based strategies and interventions to reduce high-risk alcohol use among young adults (18-25).

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This tool serves as a guide for substance misuse professionals, presenting 26 interventions designed to prevent adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and reduce their negative health impacts.

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This guide supports strategic prevention planning for American Indian and Alaska Native communities by identifying culturally informed programs that reduce substance misuse and promote mental health. It includes 85 programs evaluated using both Western and Indigenous methods, categorized by documented outcomes, target populations, and settings to help tribes select effective, culturally responsive interventions.

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Discover how Kamiah, Idaho, transformed into a prevention-focused community through the Upriver Youth Leadership Council (UYLC). This tool highlights how UYLC engaged youth, built partnerships, and implemented strategies across the substance use continuum, driving a community-wide culture of prevention and recovery. Explore actionable insights and best practices for fostering a holistic, prevention-focused environment.

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This tool explores how multiple epidemics, influenced by environmental factors, interact to exacerbate health issues like substance misuse. Emphasizing collaboration and environmental context, this resource delves into the implications for substance use disorder (SUD) prevention and offers prevention professionals strategies for developing a syndemic-informed approach to improve community health outcomes.

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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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Recognizing the vital role prescribers play in mitigating prescription opioid misuse, this resource explores the importance of educating prescribers on safe opioid prescribing practices, outlines key goals for prescriber education, and provides foundation information that prevention professionals need to advocate for and facilitate prescriber education in their communities.

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This tool presents a four-step model that SEW chairs—or others responsible for creating or rebuilding their SEWs—can use to strengthen or revitalize their epidemiological workgroups.