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CSAP
The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) is an agency of the United States government under the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Established in 1992 from the previous Office of Substance Abuse Prevention, its mission is to reduce the use of illegal substances and the abuse of legal ones. Source
Capacity
Capacity is the various types and levels of resources that a group, organization, or community has at its disposal to put into action (mobilize) to accomplish a goal or desired outcome. This may include human, material, technology and funding resources.
Capacity building
Increasing the ability and skills of individuals, groups and organizations to plan, undertake, and manage initiatives. The approach also enhances the capacity of the individuals, groups and organizations to deal with future issues or problems. Source
Case study
A Case study is a useful tool to collect in-depth program information on a single participant or site and is especially useful in providing information in fundraising efforts. A case study can be the story of one person's experience with a program. To protect privacy, it may be important to change the actual participant's name and other identifying characteristics. Gathering information through a case study may lead to other indications about the program experience. Source
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
See CSAP
Coalition
Coalitions are partnerships or collaborations among and between organizations that require sharing resrouces and leadership to accomplish common goals on an ongoing basis. Collaboration techniques are essential to achieve increased capacity because they allow community members to identify problems and increase the likelihood thta they will reach consensus on goals and implementation strategies. The biggest issue in a full collaboration is the willingness of organizations (or individuals) to enhance one another's capacity for mutual benefits and a common purpose. This usually requires substantial time commitments, very high levels of trust, and extensive areas of common turf. Source
Collaboration
Collaboration is a mutually beneficial well-defined relationship entered into by two or more organizations to achieve common goals. Collaboration is the process of various individuals, groups, or systems working together but at a significantly higher degree than through coordination or cooperation... Collaboration occurs through shared understanding of the issues, open communication, mutual trust, and tolerance of differing points of view. To collaborate is to “co-labor.”Source 2. Collaboration is an iterative process that engages two or more people who work and think together to achieve outcomes they couldn't have otherwise accomplished.
Community-based approach
A prevention approach that focuses on the problems or needs of an entire community, be it a large city, a small town, a school, a worksite, or a public place. Other popular approaches include school-based, family-based, environmental prevention. Source
Community of Practice
A Community of Practice is a group of people who share a common concern, a set of problems, or interest in a topic, and who come together to fulfill both individual and group goals. They often focus on best practices and creating new knowledge to advance a domain of professional practice. A community's specific purpose and goals inform the appropriate activities and technologies that should support it. Source Alternatively, a community of practice is the process of social learning that occurs when people who have a common interest in some topic or problem and collaborate to share ideas, find solutions, and build innovations.Source
Community development
Community development is indicated by collaborative, collective action taken by local people to enhance the long-term social, economic and environmental conditions of their community. The primary goal of community development is to create a better overall quality of life for everyone in the community. Source
Community mobilization
Community mobilization uses deliberate, participatory processes to involve local institutions, local leaders, community groups, and members of the community to organize for collective action toward a common purpose. Community mobilization is characterized by respect for the community and its needs.Source Community mobilization is also one of the six prevention strategies mandated by the SAPT Block Grant. This strategy tries to enhance the ability of the community to provide prevention services, and includes such activities as organizing, planning, inter-agency collaboration, coalition building, and networking. The strategy also includes community and volunteer training, systematic planning, multi-agency coordination and collaboration, accessing funding, and community team building. Source
Community readiness
Community readiness indicates the degree of support for or resistance to identifying substance use and abuse as significant social problems in a community. Stages of community readiness for prevention provide an appropriate framework for understanding prevention readiness at the community and state levels. Community readiness research is available from the Tri-Ethnic Center for Prevention Research at Colorado State University. Source
Community Sectors
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Consequences
Consequences are defined as the social, economic and health problems associated with the use of alcohol and illicit drugs e.g., illnesses related to alcohol (cirrhosis, fetal effects), drug overdose deaths, crime, and car crashes or suicides related to alcohol or drugs.
Consumption
Consumption is the way in which people drink, smoke and use drugs. Consumption includes overall consumption, acute or heavy consumption, consumption in risky situations (e.g., drinking and driving) and consumption by high-risk groups (e.g., youth, college students, and pregnant women).
Continuum of care
Continuum of care is a term that implies a progression of services that a person moves through, usually one service at a time. More recently, it has come to mean comprehensive services. Also see system of care and wraparound services.Source
Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI)
CQI is a concept from business that encourages movement beyond blame when things go awry to a team approach whereby employees/staff identify, plan and implementing improvements in the organization and organizational processes, especially customer service and product development.
Culturally appropriate
Activities and programs that take into account the practices and beliefs of a particular social or cultural group so that the programs and activities are acceptable, accessible, persuasive, and meaningful. Source
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Data driven
A process whereby decisions are informed by and tested against systematically gahtered and analyzed information. Source
Data Collection Instruments
The tools used to collect information. Examples of data-collection instruments included surveys, focus groups, questionnaires, and administrative records. Source
Deliberation
Deliberation is a closely related process to dialogue with a different emphasis. Deliberation emphasizes the use of logic and reasoning to make better decisions. Decisions about important public issues like health care and immigration are too often made through the use of power or coercion rather than a sound decision-making process that involves all parties and explores all options. Source
Dialogue
Dialogue is a process that allows people, usually in small groups, to share their perspectives and experiences with one another about difficult issues that are most often only debated or avoided entirely i.e.,issues like racial disparities, youth violence and gay marriage. Dialogue is not about winning an argument or coming to an agreement, but about understanding and learning. Dialogue dispels stereotypes, builds trust and enables people to be open to perspectives that are very different from their own. Dialogue can, and often does, lead to both personal and collaborative action.Source
Direct Observations
Direct observation is a less obstrusive method to gather information about things that can be observed. For example, by visiting a participant's home, youi can directly collect information on the physical surroundings. By monitoring program activities or meetings, you can observe who shows up for meetings or the program, how many individuals outwardly participate in a meeting or an activity, how people interact, whether participants can apply the skills that are being taught, etc. Source
