Making It Last! Sustaining Prevention Programming

Sustainability planning is the intentional process of looking critically at a community’s current prevention processes and interventions with an eye to identifying and securing the resources needed to maintain positive prevention outcomes. This webinar can serve as a starting for developing useful sustainability plans.

Please contact us for more information on scheduling a webinar.

Audience

State and community-level substance misuse prevention practitioners and other public health professionals

Length

1.5 hours

Learning Objectives

Define sustainability and related concepts
List three key steps in effective sustainability planning
Describe the importance of leveraging partnerships and collaborations as a foundation for sustainability

Training Content

Pre-planning for Sustainability
- Explores the meaning of sustainability in the context of prevention
- Highlights the importance of sustaining both prevention processes and prevention outcomes
- Explores the role of different stakeholders as potential partners
Three Sustainability Approaches
- Increasing community ownership of prevention efforts
- Changing policies and guidelines to enhance sustainability
- Focusing on revenue and resources
Six Steps of Sustainability Planning
- Step 1. Examining processes and interventions
- Step 2. Setting sustainability goals
- Step 3. Selecting fiscal strategies
- Step 4. Developing a communication plan
- Step 5. Working the sustainability plan
- Step 6. Resolving barriers and identifying next steps