Prevention Services - Promoting Healthy Behaviors and Lifestyles

• Fast Facts
• Tools for Oregon Prevention Providers
• Partners/Statewide Contractors
• Links to partners
• Reports
• Resources
• Web links for community members 
• Upcoming Prevention-Related Training Opportunities

Fast Facts: During 2005-2006, approximately 47,276 people benefitted from specific prevention services. More than 800,000 Oregonians were exposed to broad-based prevention information. 

AMH's and SAMHSA's Prevention Platform is a systemic community-based approach, which aims to ensure that substance abuse prevention programs can and do produce results. This approach to prevention will help move our state closer to the vision of local community members using the powers of prevention to lead healthier, longer lives.
 
AMH endorses the use of the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) for implementation of prevention activities. SPF uses a five-step process known to promote youth development, reduce risk-taking behaviors, build assets and resilience, and prevent problem behaviors across the life span.

The idea behind SPF is to use the findings from public health research along with evidence-based prevention programs to build capacity within state, local communities and the prevention field. This in turn will promote resilience and decrease risk factors in individuals, families, and communities.

Research provides strong evidence that prevention helps people make healtful choices about the way they live their lives. Prevention also reduces risk factors associated with alcohol and drug abuse.

Prevention programs are aimed at three audiences:   

Universal prevention is for all people; Selective prevention is for people who are at above average risk of involvement with alcohol and other drugs; Indicated prevention is for people who show minimal but detectable signs of involvement with alcohol and other drugs but do not meet diagnostic criteria for abuse or dependence.

The Institute of Medicine Spectrum of Intervention 

Why We Need Prevention in Your Area

• County-Specific Data 
• County-Specific Alcohol and Drug Epidemiological Reports and Fact Sheets 

Prevention Services in Your Area

• County Map  

Oregon Attorney General's Office

Attorney General John Kroger: Preventing Youth Substance Abuse 

Oregon Partnership 

Oregon Partnership provides free and confidential drug and alcohol referrals, suicide counseling and intervention for youth and adults and information for people seeking help for themselves or loved ones through a Crisis/HelpLine Service. This service has special lines/services for those that speak Spanish and youth. During 2007-08, the HelpLine responded to 25,891 calls.

HelpLine: 800-923-HELP

YouthLine: 877-553-TEEN

LifeLine: 800-273-TALK or 800-SUICIDE

Linea de Ayuda: 877-515-7848

Face it, Parents 

An awareness campaign that provides parents with information and tools to help kids stay healthy and alcohol free.

Drug-Free Workplace Initiatives

• Workdrugfree Gresham, Gresham Area Chamber - Contact: Aniel Yates, Cascade/LBL Windows, Yates-a@lblwindows.com 
• Lake County Employer Drug-Free Initiative - Contact: Debbie Utley, Lake County Mental Health, debbie.utley@lakecountymh.org 
• McMinnville Area Chamber - Contact: Phil Hutchinson, McMinnville Chamber, phutchinson@mcminnville.org  
• Molalla Area Chamber of Commerce - Contact: Marilyn Trinkle, Wellspring Medical Center, mtrinkle@silvhosp.org 
• Newport Chamber of Commerce - Contact: Mike Yost, Greater Newport Chamber of Commerce, 541-265-8801 or mike@newportchamber.org   
• Portland Employer Drug-Free Initiative - Contact: Zane White, NW Natural, zane.white@nwnatural.com 
• Salem-Keizer Chamber Drug Prevention Network - Contact: Denise Russell, Community Action. russelld@mwvcaa.org 
• The Dalles Area Chamber of Commerce - Contact: Debby Jones, YOUTHTHINK, debbyj@co.wasco.or.us 

WorkHealthy Oregon 

A workplace health promotion program sponsored by the Oregon Nurses Foundation. Workplace health promotion is a promising win-win strategy to help reduce healthcare expenses through better health risk management, increase competitiveness through improved productivity, and raise worker satisfaction as they meet personal health goals. Because workplace health promotion is new to many employers and workers, WorkHealthy Oregon disseminates information about successful applications of health promotion through research and implementation projects. Contact: Chris O'Neill at 541-344-1232 or oneillchris@mac.com

• Addiction Counselor Certification Board of Oregon (ACCBO)
• CSAP's Western Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (West CAPT)
• Healthy Kids Learn Better
• Oregon Problem Gambling Prevention Coordinators Web page
• SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
• US Department of Education 

• All prevention reports can be found at this link.  

• Accessing Funding Sources and Grant Writing Information (Western Capt)
• Cities Without Drugs: The 'Major Cities' Guide to Reducing Substance Abuse in Your Community - Booklet
• Powerpoint Presentations (Western Capt)
• Prevention Materials (Western Capt)
• Prevention Talk (Western Capt)- brochures containing substance abuse information for parents and teenagers
• Strategic Prevention Framework (CADCA)
• Strategies for Increasing Protective Factors Among Youth 
• Tip of the Capt (Western Capt) - a monthly brief containing evidence based prevention information 

Resource Materials

• Preventing Underage Drinking: Getting to Outcomes with the SAMHSA Strategic Prevention Framework to Achieve Results (Rand Report)
• Strengthening Families Program for Parents and Youth 10-14 Fact Sheet 
• Tobacco Merchant Education Materials (PDF)
• Underage Drinking Fact Sheet (PDF)
• Workplace Kit: Making Your Workplace Drug-Free 

• Alcohol Cost Calculator
• Alcohol Policies Project
• Benchmarking for Nonprofits
• Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth
• Cost Calculator of Substance Abuse
• CSAP: Building a Successful Prevention Program
• Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study (PDF)
• Links to Partnering Organizations (PDF)
• List of Helpful Prevention-Related Resources (PDF)
• National Network for Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities
• NIDA for Teens
• Oregon Progress Board
• Oregon's five-year action agenda to reduce and combat underage drinking (PDF)
• Reducing Underage Drinking Through Coalitions: Youth and Adults United for Change   

Potential Funders

• Spirit Mountain Community Fund 
• Meyer Memorial Trust 

• AMH Regional Prevention Coordinators
• AMH Underage Drinking Web page
• County-Specific Data
• Oregon Prevention Booklet (PDF)
• Oregon Coalitions (updated Jan. 2010) (PDF)
• Prevention Coordinator Mentoring Application Form and Description
  • Word / PDF 
• Prevention Coordinators Manual (PDF)
• Prevention Program OAR   

Communication

• Prevention Partners News (Summer 2010) (PDF)
• Prevention Partners News (Spring 2010) (PDF)
• Prevention Partners News (Winter 2010) (PDF)
• Prevention Partners News (Fall 2009) (PDF)
• Prevention Partners News (Summer 2009) (PDF)
• Prevention Partners News (Spring 2009) (PDF)

Forms

• Demographic Reporting Sheet (PDF)
• Program Outcomes Report (Excel) or (PDF)
• MDS Data Entry Form - Single Services (PDF)
• MDS Recurring Services Form (PDF)
• Prevention Site Review Protocol (PDF)
• Implementation Tribal Prevention Plan (PDF) 

(If you have prevention related training opportunities open to all and would like to promote them on this site, please contact Greta at Greta.l.coe@state.or.us) 

Training

Online Prevention Courses

Homestudy courses 

--Prevention Program Planning and Coordination

10 hours; $54

--Strengthening Families: Review of a Model Prevention Program

7 hours; $44

--Understanding Substance Abuse Prevention

5.5 hours; $39

Self-Paced Distance Learning 

--Enviornmental Prevention Strategies

9 CEHs; $64

--Socioeconomics and Prevention

6 CEHs; $48

--Substance Abuse Prevention

18 CEHs; $144