Collected Resources
Careers of Substance collects resources from trusted organizations in order to support the substance use workforce in a variety of areas. If you would like to suggest a resource, please contact us.
Tip Sheet on Question Wording
This Program on Survey Research Tip Sheet provides some basic tips about how to write good survey questions and design a good survey questionnaire.
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Publisher: University of Wisconsin Extension
Tips and Guidance for Conducting Key Partner Interviews
This guide provides tips and guidance for conducting interviews with key partners to gather needs assessment data from planning and preparation, conducting the interview, and provides sample questions to ask by various audiences.
Author: Center for Strategic Prevention Support Publisher: Massachusetts Department of Public Health's Bureau of Substance Addiction Services
Tool for Organizational Self Assessment Related to Racial Equity
This tool – developed and piloted by the Eliminating Disparities collaborative – helps leaders gain an evidence-based snapshot of practices and policies related to racial equity in their organizations. This open source tool is designed for organizations both large and small, including school districts, nonprofits, corporations, foundations and others.
Author: Eliminating Disparities in Child & Youth Success Collaborative
Publisher: Coalition of Communities of Color
Tools to Assess Community Readiness to Prevent Substance Misuse
This tool provides a list of tools that practitioners working to prevent substance misuse can use to assess their community’s readiness to address identified needs, and to prioritize these needs accordingly. Please note that the examples presented here are not representative of all assessment tools available to the field and do not imply endorsement by SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Prevention.
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Publisher: Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC)
TRAIN Learning Management System
Train Massachusetts (TRAIN MA), an affiliate of the TRAIN Learning Network, is a national free online learning platform that provides self-paced training on various public health topics. It is available to all public health professionals in Massachusetts, including those just starting their careers. The Bureau of Substance Addiction Services (BSAS) at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health offers many courses for people who work in careers addressing substance use prevention, intervention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery. These self-paced trainings include BSAS 101, a brief training on the BSAS system of care, Introduction to the Substance Use Helpline, Substance Use Disorders 101, Opioid Overdose Prevention, and more. New trainings are being added regularly.
Register to create your free account:
- Go to TRAIN to set up an account.
- You will receive an email confirming your enrollment.
- Once you're enrolled, create your profile and start learning!
Tribal Youth Resource Center
Funded by The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Tribal Youth Resource Center supports tribal efforts to improve juvenile justice systems for American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) youth. The website features a resource library, upcoming events, funding opportunities, podcasts, and blogs on topics relevant to supporting Tribal youth.
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Publisher: Tribal Youth Resource Center
Turning Data Into Action: A User’s Guide to the Report to Congress on the Prevention and Reduction of Underage Drinking
The Report to Congress on the Prevention and Reduction of Underage Drinking (RTC), along with the State Performance and Best Practices report and state-specific reports, serves as a resource for creating data-driven and evidence-based policies and programs to reduce and prevent underage drinking. This user guide gives a brief overview of the reports and a breakdown by audience for how to find and use the information they contain.
Author: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Publisher: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
UMass Boston Addiction & Recovery Library Research Guide
A collection of alcohol and other drug resources from the Healey Library at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Understanding the Role of Intervening Variables/Risk and Protective Factors
This brief provides an overview of some of the risk and protective factors that affect the likelihood that a child will misuse substances in the future by age range (prenatal, 1-3, 3-5, and school age).
Author: The Center for Strategic Prevention Support and the Bureau of Substance Addiction Services Publisher: Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Bureau of Substance Addiction Services
Undoing the Drivers of Health Inequity
The fundamental drivers of health inequity are systemic factors that shape people’s physical and social surroundings in ways that create barriers to health. This interactive tool outlines how to address the five fundamental drivers of health inequity by developing legal and policy strategies to transform policies and systems. It provides real-world examples of how communities across the country have used equitable policymaking to confront the drivers of health inequity and create systems change.
Author: ChangeLab Solutions
Publisher: ChangeLab Solutions