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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 highlights United Indian Health Services' use of traditional structures to foster recovery and wellness for American Indian and Alaska Native communities. Through collaborative building projects, cultural activities, and peer support, UIHS integrates community and heritage into substance use prevention, addressing wellness holistically to strengthen cultural connections and resilience.
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This tool explores how the housing sector and prevention professionals can collaborate to address substance misuse and housing instability. It covers key housing paradigms, the complex relationship between housing and substance use, and practical ways to partner with housing organizations to improve community health and reduce risk factors related to substance misuse.
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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 provides insights for navigating the complexities of group collaboration in prevention efforts. Drawing from the Stages of Development Team Theory, it offers a roadmap for understanding and managing group dynamics across four crucial stages: Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing. From fostering trust and defining goals to delegating tasks and celebrating successes, this resource equips leaders with practical strategies to maximize productivity, cohesion, and long-term success within coalitions.
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This comprehensive resource offers a detailed understanding of stakeholders in early childhood education and their role in supporting prevention efforts. Covering prenatal care through elementary school years, it highlights primary and secondary partners, provides insights on collaboration, and emphasizes the importance of parental involvement, serving as a valuable tool for informed prevention planning and community engagement.
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Aimed at demystifying the intricacies of primary care, this glossary defines key terms and concepts within primary care, shedding light on legislative influences, funding mechanisms, provider organizations, and payment systems.
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This resource offers guidance for prevention professionals addressing prescription opioid misuse. It helps practitioners understand state-specific regulations, educational requirements, and collaboration opportunities to enhance prescriber education programs. By answering key questions such as who can prescribe opioids in your state and what resources are available, this tool equips professionals to collaborate effectively with primary care.
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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 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 tool offers a comprehensive list of community stakeholder groups, highlighting the ways that “non-traditional” partners can enhance prevention efforts.
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This tool provides examples of state- and local-level opportunities for collaborating with medical professionals in various sectors to plan and support prescriber education programming.
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This tool presents the different sectors prevention practitioners may want to engage in opioid overdose prevention efforts, along with opportunities for meaningful engagement.
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This tip sheet provides an introduction to key players involved in on-campus substance abuse prevention efforts, important considerations for working together, and examples of how to engage campuses and college students in community prevention efforts.
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This tool identifies the types of policymakers prevention practitioners might engage, explores potential goals that can be achieved through collaboration with this important group of stakeholders, offers examples of potential collaborations, and presents tips for collaborating effectively.
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This tool can help teams assess the degree to which member activities align with the collaboration’s overall purpose and goals.
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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 tool explains why and how grantees should conduct regular assessments of member satisfaction. This tool provides regular assessments of member satisfaction that can help you increase member engagement, improve group cohesion, and refine group processes and procedures.
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This worksheet helps prevention teams in assessing their readiness to engage in collaboration.
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This tip sheet provides tips to help prevention programs get their new collaborative workgroup off the ground and running.
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This tool presents opportunities for collaborating at each step of the SPF.
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This worksheet offers a template for creating a simple memorandum of agreement.
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This tool compares two common decision-making approaches—voting and consensus and helps grantees determine which method is best for their team.
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This worksheet helps grantees successfully match workgroup activities with member interests and skills.
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