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The NeCPTTC has created a Sustainability Planning Toolkit to help prevention specialists produce and maintain positive substance misuse outcomes. This toolkit guides professionals in evaluating their strategic planning processes and interventions in order to determining what needs to be sustained and the best way to do so. The toolkit offers a five-step sustainability planning process to help communities move from understanding to action, and to identify and secure the resources needed to maintain positive prevention outcomes beyond current funding. The steps include setting sustainability goals, selecting your sustainability approach, identifying needed resources, collaboration and partnership mapping, and developing your sustainability outreach approach. For each of these five steps, the toolkit provides a supplemental worksheet to help practically guide individuals and organizations through this planning process. The toolkit is now available for your use. You may access all the pieces below: Sustainability Planning Toolkit Sustainability Planning Checklist Tool 1 Setting Sustainability Goals Tool 2 Selecting Your Sustainability Approach Tool 3 Identifying Needed Resources Tool 4 Collaboration and Partnership Mapping  Tool 5 Developing Your Sustainability Outreach Approach 

Are you asking yourself "how do I lead in the situation when there is no one specifically in charge, multiple stakeholders are involved in the decision making process, and there is no way you can force people to do what needs to be done?"  Leadership is not about the job, the title, or the position … it's not about you at all! It is about the purpose, the group of people who are charged with producing something related to that purpose in partnership and collaboration with others. Leadership today requires paradigm shift in order to be more effective and deliver results.    This episode will shift your mindset and approach to coalition leadership!  Register for the July 14th webinar here. REGISTER

Understanding the Role of Policy in Preventing Substance Misuse Webinar  Dates  Part 1: September 19, 2019  Part 2: September 26, 2019  Description  Policy strategies can produce widespread adoption of behaviors and attitudes that promote health and reduce substance misuse. Yet, policy is one of the prevention strategies least utilized in the field. This two-part webinar series will help you get past barriers and misconceptions relative to policy by presenting clear steps for selecting and implementing policies that produce lasting change.  Key Webinar Features  Part 1 will examine specific policies to prevent youth alcohol use and prescription drug misuse.  Part 2 will examine policies to prevent youth tobacco and marijuana use, with a focus on preventing vaping.  Outline a process for identifying and enhancing the community conditions that promote policy adoption  Review best practices for supporting policy implementation.  Presenters  Tracy Desovich, MPH, CPS - Tracy has over 25 years of experience in substance abuse prevention and public health. Her experience includes developing, implementing, and evaluating prevention services for students at the University of Connecticut and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her expertise includes community health assessment, planning, organizing and evaluation, leadership development, utilizing data to mobilize change, social norms marketing and healthy communities’ principles.  Ivy Jones-Turner, MPA - For over 20 years, Ivy has provided organizational capacity assistance on health promotion and prevention in substance abuse, suicide, violence, injury, and mental health with nonprofit and community-based organizations, state and faith-based agencies, and school districts. Her capacity building skills include program evaluation, training and technical assistance in program design and implementation, organizational development, partnerships/collaborations, and grant management. Ms. Jones Turner is a Certified Prevention Specialist and holds an MPA from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.  Noreen Burke, MPP - Noreen M. Burke is a training and technical assistance specialist in substance misuse prevention with EDC and has extensive local public health and human rights leadership experience in strategic planning, budgeting, grant writing, project management, program operations, program and product development, event organizing, advocacy, and community education. She holds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from Tufts University.  Part 1 Sept 19 2019: Part 2 9 26 2019: Supplemental Materials  Knowing what Policies are in Place  Surveying the Landscape Session Slides Part 1 Session Slides Part 2 Session Transcript Part 1 Session Transcript Part 2 Webinar Flyer

In this Issue Sustaining Prevention Programming During a Pandemic Additional Resources What's Happening Around the Region? Epi Corner: Sustainability: A Data-Driven Dynamic Process

How Does the SPF Contribute to Sustainability?   Assessment Communities begin making decisions based on a clear understanding of local prevention needs. They also begin building relationships with data keepers and stakeholders who can play important roles in supporting and sustaining local prevention efforts over time. Capacity By increasing the ability to respond to changing issues with innovative solutions, by promoting public awareness and support for evidence-based prevention, and by engaging partners and cultivating champions, communities ensure that successful programs are sustained within a larger community context, and therefore less vulnerable to local budgetary and political fluctuations. Planning When developing a comprehensive approach to preventing substance misuse, communities consider the degree to which prevention interventions fit with local needs, capacity, and culture: the better the fit, the more likely interventions are to be both successful and sustainable. Implementation By working closely with partners to deliver evidence-based programs and practices as intended, closely monitoring and improving their delivery, and celebrating “small wins” along the way, communities help to ensure intervention effectiveness and begin to weave prevention into the fabric of the community. Evaluation Through process and outcome evaluation, communities can make important mid-course corrections to prevention efforts, identify which practices are worth expanding and/or sustaining, and examine ongoing plans for—and progress toward—sustaining those practices that work. By sharing evaluation findings, planners can also help build the support needed to expand and sustain effective interventions.1 Cultural Competence To ensure that prevention practices produce positive outcomes for members of diverse population groups, communities must engage in an inclusive and culturally appropriate approach to identifying and addressing their substance misuse problems. Prevention infused with health equity is the only type of prevention worth doing—and sustaining.

In today’s episode we will be talking about leading a DFC coalition, writing for years 1-5 and for 6-10, and a proven process that builds buy-in and sustainability right from the beginning. ___________________________________________________________________ The Drug-Free Communities (DFC) program has been a central, bi-partisan component of our nation’s demand reduction strategy since its passage in 1998. The consistent and steady growth of the program from $10 million in 1998 to $100 million in 2019 and the number of grantees (from 92 original grantees to more than 2,000 grantees) is a testament to the program’s popularity. The premise of the DFC program is simple – that communities around the country must be organized and equipped to deal with their individual substance misuse problems in a comprehensive and coordinated manner. WHO IS HUELIFE? HueLife is a human understanding and engagement (Hue) consulting firm. We take ideas, aspirations, and goals, and turn them into exciting realities that our clients are proud of.  We work with public, private, and government sectors in organization development, strategic planning, public and in-house facilitation training, consulting, executive search, community engagement, and leadership/team development.

Measuring Cultural Factors Associated with Substance Misuse and Mental Health in American Indian and Alaska Native Populations provides information on measures that prevention practitioners and evaluators can use when evaluating substance misuse prevention programs that include cultural elements. The measures are divided into two main sections: (1) those that can be used for research purposes without further permission from the author; and (2) those that will require you to contact the measure developer for permission to use the questionnaire and to access the complete scale items. Within each section, measures are organized by overarching conceptual themes.

Informing Prevention 6-Part Webinar Series on Adolescents Part 2 of 6  Effectively Engaging Adolescents in Interventions During this webinar you will learn the rates of adolescent engagement in prevention programs. You will learn what prevents adolescents from engaging in prevention programs. Lastly, you will learn and be able to describe strategies that can be implemented to increase engagement in adolescent prevention programs. PDF Slides Presenter: Jason Burrow-Sánchez, PhD