Online Program

335412
Partnerships for Success: Evaluating Community-Based Interventions for Underage Drinking and Prescription Drug Misuse


Tuesday, November 3, 2015 : 8:30 a.m. - 8:50 a.m.

Phillip W. Graham, DrPH, MPH, Drugs, Violence, and Delinquency Prevention Research Program, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC
Elvira Elek, Ph.D., Drug, Violence, and Delinquency Prevention Program, RTI International, Washington, DC
Pamela Roddy, PhD, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Rockville, MD
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) is the federal agency charged with preventing and reducing substance use and related problems. CSAP’s flagship prevention initiative, the Strategic Prevention Framework Partnerships for Success (SPF-PFS) addresses two of the nation’s top substance abuse priorities: 1) underage drinking among persons age 12 to 20; and 2) prescription drug misuse and abuse among persons age 12 to 25.

The SPF-PFS brings SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) to a national scale. The program is based on the premise that changes at the community level will, over time, lead to measurable changes at the State, jurisdictional, or tribal level. The program funds state, jurisdiction, and tribal grantees to provide funds to subrecipient communities which assess needs and then select and implement evidence-based interventions to address the targeted priority issues. By working together to foster change, grantees and their initially high need and low capacity subrecipient communities can more effectively overcome the challenges underlying their substance abuse prevention priorities and achieve the goals of the SPF-PFS.

CSAP recently funded a 5-year cross site evaluation to evaluate the effectiveness of the funded grantees (N=52) to build prevention capacity and impact alcohol and prescription-drug related consumption, intervening variables, and consequences at grantee (state, jurisdiction, or tribe) and community levels.  This presentation will describe and highlight a comprehensive and groundbreaking evaluation designed to address challenges associated with conducting similar efforts. In addition it will include a description of innovative approaches implemented by subrecipient communities to prevent drinking and prescription drug misuse and abuse along with an assessment of preliminary findings to date.

Learning Areas:

Conduct evaluation related to programs, research, and other areas of practice
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs

Learning Objectives:
Identify innovative elements of the cross-site evaluation plan for SAMHSA's Strategic Prevention Framework Partnerships for Success (PFS) program. Describe individual and environmental interventions being implemented by PFS program community-level grantees. Discuss initial outcomes of the PFS program.

Keyword(s): Evaluation, Drug Abuse Prevention and Safety

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have been a project manager, associate project director, and task lead for multiple federally funded grants, projects, and evaluations in the area of substance use prevention interventions and related epidemiology. I currently serve as an epidemiology lead for a substance use prevention project in the District of Columbia, and the Deputy Project Director of the cross-site evaluation of SAMHSA's Partnerships for Success program.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.