Access a range of print and online resources developed by EDC to prevent substance misuse and related behavioral health problems. More resources coming soon!
| Resource Title | Description | Resource Type |
|---|---|---|
| Increasing Cultural Competence to Reduce Behavioral Health Disparities | This collection of tools includes tip sheets and hands-on worksheets to help prevention practitioners better understand the important relationship between cultural competence and reducing disparities. |
T/TA Tool |
| Innovation Learning Lab: Building Evaluation Capacity to Prevent Opioid Misuse and Overdose | Through its Innovation Learning Lab, PS@EDC works closely with states to support local prevention programs to develop and evaluate innovative overdose prevention interventions. |
Resource |
| Kentucky Logic Model Training Helps Practitioners Connect the Dots | Many states are requiring the counties they fund to incorporate logic models into their local substance use prevention plans. In January, PS@EDC spent two days training 80 substance misuse prevention practitioners from across Kentucky on how to do so. |
Service Spotlight |
| Key Features of Risk and Protective Factors | This resource presents four features of risk and protective factors related to substance misuse: they exist in multiple contexts, are correlated and cumulative, are influential over time, and affect people in different ways. |
T/TA Tool |
| Levels of Collaboration | Stakeholders can work together in many different ways, for many different reasons. This chart presents four levels of collaboration, ranging from simple to complex. |
T/TA Tool |
| Local, State, and National Data Sources | This resource provides an annotated list of data sources that provide information on substance misuse and related behavioral health problems. |
T/TA Tool |
| Locating Data on Risk Factors for Opioid Overdose | To help practitioners determine the impact of overdose-related factors in their communities, this practice-support tool pairs data sources with the specific factors they describe. |
T/TA Tool |
| Managing Coalition Dynamics | This tool offers an overview of the four stages of group development (from Tuckman’s Stages of Development Team Theory), accompanied by tips for maximizing productivity and cohesion, reducing conflict, and steering group members toward long-term success to support leaders in managing group dynamics. |
T/TA Tool |
