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Rhode Island’s Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities & Hospitals (BHDDH) used an 18-month, collaborative approach to build a five-year substance misuse prevention plan. Through early planning, facilitated discussions, and tiered feedback, BHDDH engaged partners across the state to shape a shared vision, fostering trust and alignment within Rhode Island’s prevention community.
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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 tool uses the Socio-Ecological Model (SEM) to present key risk and protective factors for substance misuse, organized across individual, relationship, community, and societal levels. By focusing on factors that emerge in childhood, it supports early interventions aimed at reducing the risk of substance misuse in later life, offering evidence-based insights to guide targeted prevention strategies for families, educators, communities, and policymakers.
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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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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 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 tool provides an overview of key national substance use surveillance systems and surveys in the U.S. These systems collect and analyze data related to substance consumption, misuse, and their consequences to inform public health efforts. Examples include America's Poison Centers, RADARS System, StreetRx, YRBSS, BRFSS, PRAMS, WONDER, NSDUH, TEDS, and ODMAP, each serving distinct purposes in monitoring and addressing substance use trends.
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This tool provides information on data sources and measures to help practitioners understand the non-medical use of prescription drugs in their communities.
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This tool offers a comprehensive listing of available data resources and surveys developed by and for a range of federal agencies and that collect data on marijuana use and its consequences.
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This tool provides information on how national surveys measure youth marijuana use, as well as factors and consequences associated with such use.
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This resource is designed to help epidemiological workgroups re-conceptualize their purpose and function, drawing on lessons learned from experienced workgroup members.
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This tool examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on alcohol-related deaths. The brief provides insights into the increase in alcohol use, the geographic distribution of alcohol-related deaths, gender differences, and the effects on various types of counties. It highlights the importance of understanding these trends and geographic disparities for the development of effective prevention interventions and strategies.
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This tool helps practitioners in locating data on risk factors for opioid overdose and offers insights into various risk factors, data sources, and indicators related to opioid use and misuse. It helps practitioners better understand and target their prevention efforts, identify new data sources, find proxy measures for specific factors when direct data is unavailable, and identify potential partners who collect relevant data.