Substance Abuse/Use Prevention Planning Essay. Psychology.

Substance Abuse/Use Prevention Planning Essay

This is the 2nd part to this assignment. The previous assignment is attached, but I requested that you do this assignment since you did the first one and so that it can continue on from the “1st assignment”. 
Prevention Plan and Evaluation
Plan: Planning is pivotal to prevention success. Planning will increase the effectiveness of prevention efforts—by focusing energy, ensuring that staff and other stakeholders are working toward the same goals, and providing the means for assessing and adjusting programmatic direction, as needed. If done carefully, planning will also make future evaluation tasks much easier. Prevention practitioners at the state and jurisdiction levels engage in these planning activities:
• 1st paragraph: Prioritizing risk and protective factors:
o Establish criteria for prioritizing risk and protective factors associated with the identified priority problems, focusing on their importance and changeability (this should have been briefly touched on in the “1st assignment” (attached for reference, I believe it is in the 4th paragraph), but it needs to have a more formed conclusion of what the prevention priorities will be based on your assessment, which then should lead to your decisions about your prevention program). 
• 2nd paragraph: Evidence Based Prevention Program: 
o Locate and describe a Researched-effective (evidence based) prevention program to meet the identified needs in the Abilene, Texas community.
o Explain how this program meets the needs (risk and protective factors) in the Abilene, Texas community (there may be some info from the “1st assignment”).
o If you are adapting the program to fit the community needs discuss those changes and how will you maintain the core competency of this program.
o How does this program address the gap in the community rather than just reinventing the wheel? 
• 3rd paragraph:
o Address how this prevention program adheres to the community’s readiness discussed in the “1st assignment”. 
o How will need to be rolled out in your community?
Evaluation: 
• 4th paragraph:
o Develop a logic model that links the consumption patterns and consequences of the priority problems, associated risk and protective factors, evidence-based strategies, and anticipated prevention outcomes of this program. ***The actual logical model chart will be in the appendices, but briefly talk about how you will evaluate your program. 
• 5th paragraph:
o Show how you will adhere to sustainability and cultural competency in your program. Good planning is also crucial to sustainability. It ensures the involvement and commitment of stakeholders beyond the initial funding period, establishes the organization structure necessary to maintain program activities over time, and greatly increases the likelihood that expected outcomes will be achieved. Whether planning happens within a formal coalition or among a more informal group of partners, decisions must reflect the ideas and input of diverse groups and individuals. 
• Format:
o Essay should be 3 full pages in length, typed, double-spaced, with one-inch margins and 12-pitch font. 
o APA format; this includes in text citations, title and reference page.
• Appendix:
o Typed logic model and references are required identifying and acknowledging the resources used to complete this assignment.