This guidance document is a resource for municipalities, individuals, organizations, community coalitions, and other groups who are implementing efforts to prevent prescription drug misuse and abuse among high school aged youth, including those whose efforts are funded by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) Bureau of Substance Abuse Services (BSAS), and more specifically, grantees of the Partnership For Success 2015 cohort.

Author: Center for Strategic Prevention Support Publisher: Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Bureau of Substance Addiction Services

The Partnership to End Addiction seeks to transform how the nation addresses addiction by empowering families, advancing effective care, shaping public policy and changing culture.

Partnership to End Addiction curates a digest of the latest news in our field for advocates, policymakers, community coalitions and all who work toward shaping policies and practices to effectively prevent substance use and treat addiction.

This 2015 report from the UCSF Health Workforce Research Center on Long-Term Care surveys literature on peer support workers in mental health and substance use & addictions, and describes roles, reimbursement options, settings, history, and other aspects of peer work in behavioral health.

Do you think you might have a problem with alcohol or other drugs (including tobacco)? Are you engaging in behavior that might be putting you or people you care about at risk for physical or emotional harm? Are you having problems in your social, work, or home life that you think might be related to your use of alcohol, other drugs, gambling, or taking risks?

There are many resources for anyone who wants to learn more about these problems.

This publication provides an overview of the steps associated with engaging in community mobilizing to implement environmental strategies with a particular emphasis on adopting alcohol, tobacco, and drug (ATD) policies at the community level.

Author: Publisher: Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA)

Guidance for prioritizing and optimizing use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), COVID-19 testing, and COVID-19 vaccine supply in Massachusetts during the COVID-19 response.

This guide provides guidance for developing a logic model specific to the PFS grant, a logic model examples, as well as a logic model template.

Author: Center for Strategic Prevention Support

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This primer provides clear guidelines for assisting your coalition to develop the products that you need to carry out a comprehensive community plan to reduce substance abuse rates. It also helps you understand the dynamic planning process needed for coalition work.

Author: Publisher: Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA)

Public health and commercial tobacco prevention practitioners have increasingly centered equity in policy development to ensure that policies to combat commercial tobacco–related harms do not unintentionally perpetuate or exacerbate health disparities. This shift includes efforts to improve evaluation activities to better measure health equity impacts related both to outcomes and to how the policy was developed and implemented.

The lists of sample metrics in this resource provide local policymakers, public health practitioners, and community groups with a foundation for further conversation about how we measure the community impact of the policy process. These non-exhaustive lists stem from research across the field of public health; only some correspond to existing examples in commercial tobacco. In time, we hope to share examples of each metric at work and to update the research as we continue to learn from our partners.

The lists and accompanying research in this tool aim to provide . . .

• Inspiration for new and deeper partnerships throughout the policy process — for example, between local decision makers, partner agencies, community-based organizations, health care partners, other service providers, and residents
• Data metrics and supporting evidence to help ground and inspire new approaches to evaluating the policy process
• Avenues for building a network of communities that are making this shift in their approaches to evaluation provisions and plans

Author: ChangeLab Solutions

Publisher: ChangeLab Solutions