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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 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 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 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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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 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 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 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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The Institute of Medicine's continuum of care categorizes behavioral health services into four areas: promotion, prevention, treatment, and recovery. This resource explores how these services align, offering support from promoting wellness to aiding in long-term recovery. It provides a structured framework for addressing substance misuse across various stages of care, ensuring comprehensive support for individuals and communities.

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This resource examines cultural-specific risk and protective factors related to substance misuse and mental well-being in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities. It provides research findings to assist in culturally responsive prevention planning, emphasizing the importance of understanding and respecting their diverse cultural backgrounds and practices.