Tools + Resources

SPF SIG Strategic Plan (Full), State of Alaska
A detailed step-by-step account of the State’s own SPF process, including the collection and prioritization of data, the selection of consumption focus areas, and decisions about the funding for locally based efforts at prevention.
SPF SIG Strategic Plan (Summary), State of Alaska and Agnew::Beck
A summary document highlighting the key points of the State’s strategic plan, including priority focus areas
RFP Resource Guide, State of Alaska
Includes key milestones and key products for each of the five SPF steps, as well as additional information and links to further resources for each step
Glossary of SPF Terms, Agnew::Beck
Definitions for terms and acronyms commonly used in alcohol prevention work and the SPF process
Summary of SPF Components, Kamama Consulting and Agnew::Beck
Overview of the SPF model, with an outline of key activities and products for each of the steps
April 2011 SPF Training, Kamama Consulting and Agnew::Beck

State of Alaska Health + Social Services Behavioral Health SPF SIG, Includes key reports and other information about efforts at the State level
Strategic Prevention Framework from SAMHSA, Website for the Federal agency, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Alaska DHSS Office of Children’s Services, News and program information related to the Office of Children’s Services.

Assessment: Secondary Data Ideas + Report Outline, Ideas for secondary data, Agnew::Beck, adapted from Minnesota Department of Human Services.
The community needs assessment framework is a template for considering secondary data related to each question in the assessment process, plus a suggested outline for preparing the final assessment report.
Assessment Timeline Worksheet, Agnew::Beck and Kamama Consulting
A detailed step-by-step guide to conducting a needs assessment, community readiness assessment, and organizational and cultural capacity assessment
Sample Community Perceptions Questionnaire, Kamama Consulting and Agnew::Beck
An adaptable survey for identifying community perceptions around consumption and/or consequences
Grantee Training Workbook: Assessment Focus, Kamama Consulting, October 2011
Workbook used in the October 2011 Anchorage grantee training, with useful information, templates and tools for conducting the needs assessment as well as prioritizing consequences, intervening variables and contributing factors
Assessment Report – Sample Format, Agnew::Beck, Kamama Consulting, Wise at Work
An outline that covers each of the key elements of an assessment report, including data collection and analysis, identifying and prioritizing consequences, prioritizing intervening variables, and identifying contributing factors.
Resource Assessment, Part I, Kamama Consulting and Agnew::Beck
This tool allows you to identify community and organizational resources for each of your intervening variables and contributing factors.
Resource Assessment, Part II, Kamama Consulting and Agnew::Beck
The second part of the resource assessment helps to identify gaps and ideas for addressing them.
Cultural Capacity Domains, Kamama Consulting
Describes seven key components of cultural capacity, with examples.
Data Utilization Webinar Series

Community Readiness Assessment Information and Materials, Agnew::Beck, adapted from Tri-Ethnic Center Information and tools to help with implementing acommunity readiness assessment, including an overview of the Tri-Ethnic model; a set of baseline questions that communities can adapt; portions of “mock interviews” from a service provider, clergy member, and community member at large, for use in going through a practice scoring exercise; detailed scoring sheets by domain; a summary scoring sheet; and a tool for brainstorming strengths, concerns, and resources in a group setting.
Consumption and Consequence, State of Alaska Epidemiologic Profile on Substance Abuse
Report from the Alaska Substance Abuse Epidemiological Workgroup, including discussions and data regarding consumption, consequences and influences. (Note: The influences section is still under development and will be included with the final report.)
Sample Logic Model, Coop Consulting and Kamama Consulting
Completed logic model from New Mexico SPF SIG process, including consumption, consequences, intervening variables, and strategies
Community Readiness Handbook,Tri-Ethnic Center for Prevention Research
A detailed guide to conducting the Tri-Ethnic Center’s Community Readiness Assessment Model, which includes nine levels of community readiness in six distinct domains including awareness and knowledge, community climate, leadership, efforts and resources.
Grantee Training Presentation: Assessment Focus, Kamama Consulting, October 2011
Slide presentation from October 2011 grantee training in Anchorage, led by Paula Feathers of Kamama Consulting
October Web Training: recordings + resources, Agnew::Beck
Audio recordings with links to accompanying documents used in the October 2011 grantee training
Uniform Crime Code, State of Alaska Department of Public Safety
Annual report on reported crimes in Alaska.
Alaska Victimization Survey, UAA Justice Center.
A 2010 survey conducted to provide reliable and valid estimates of intimate partner violence and sexual violence.
Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), Alaska DHSS Division of Public Health; Women’s, Children’s and Family Health.
The PRAMS is an ongoing survey of mothers of newborns that collects state-specific, population-based data on maternal attitudes and experiences before, during, and after pregnancy.
Childhood Understanding Bevaviors Survey (CUBS), Alaska DHSS Division of Public Health; Women’s, Children’s and Family Health.
Alaska CUBS is a program designed to find out more about the health and early childhood experiences of Alaska toddlers. Alaska-resident mothers who completed the PRAMS survey after their infant was born are sent a CUBS survey when their child is 3 years old. CUBS asks questions about both the mother and her toddler.
Economic Cost of Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Alaska Mental Health Board & Advisory Board on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, Alcohol and drug abuse impacts Alaska’s economy in a variety of ways. It can lead to greater health risks and death, impaired physical and mental abilities, crime, greater reliance on public assistance, and a number of other adverse effects. This study addresses tangible economic costs such as lost earnings or costs of government programs.
CASA Teen Survey, The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, This 17th annual “back-to-school survey” continues the efforts of The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University to track attitudes of teens and those, like parents, who influence them. For more than a decade and a half this survey has sought to identify characteristics, situations and circumstances that increase or decrease the likelihood of teen substance abuse.

Village Wellness Workbook, Bristol Bay Family Resource Partnership
Contains helpful ideas and tools for coalitions, including suggestions for planning, conducting and documenting meetings, as well as ideas for group activities and handouts
Developing Effective Coalitions: An Eight Step Guide, Prevention Institute
Provides information and definitions useful in thinking about how and when a coalition might be useful, as well as offering broad guidelines for building a new coalition or strengthening an existing one
Coalition Capacity Checklist, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE), for State of Vermont
Ranking tool for use by coalition members to identify strengths and challenges in different functional areas, such as leadership, community engagement, planning, and clarity of purpose
Incorporating Cultural Capacity into SPF Process, SAMHSA CAPT
Offers ideas for ways to strengthen cultural capacity during each step of the SPF process.
Organization Chart Example: Homer Prevention Project
Example Organization Chart: AICS Super Coalition

Developing Community Leadership, Evans, Tindall, Likenbach
Article that provides information and definitions useful in thinking about how and when a coalition might be useful, as well as offering broad guidelines for building a new coalition or strengthening an existing one

Strategic Planning Resource Guide, UAA, Agnew::Beck, Wise at Work, and Kamama Consulting
Helpful step-by-step information for going through the strategic planning process. (Distributed at September 2012 grantee training.)
Strategic Plan Template, Agnew::Beck, Kamama Consulting, Wise at Work, UAA
Provides a format for developing your community’s SPF SIG strategic plan. (Distributed at September 2012 grantee training.)
SPFSIG Training Workbook, Kamama Consulting
September 2012 grantee training workbook with resources and materials to assist in capacity building and strategic planning
Reviewers Checklist
Strategic Plan Template: Additional Notes Included

Guide to Environmental Prevention Strategies, CADCA
Publication from the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America to assist coalitions in expanding knowledge about planning for population-level change using the SPF model
Resources on Violence Against Women, UAA Justice Center
Justice Center, Alaska, national, and international resources about violence against women and efforts to address it.
Council on Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault (CDVSA), Alaska Department of Public Safety
The CDVSA is responsible for making sure Alaska has a system of statewide crisis intervention services (such as local shelter programs), perpetrator accountability programs (such as our approved batterer’s intervention programs) and prevention services.
Alaska Network on Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault (ANDVSA),
The ANDVSA is a nonprofit membership corporation, comprised of 18 service providers statewide, which promotes and sustains a collective movement to end violence and oppression through social change.
Green Dot Program, Green Dot, etc.
With the ultimate goal of preparing organizations and communities to implement a strategy of violence prevention that consistently, measurably reduces power-based personal violence (including sexual violence, domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, child abuse, elder abuse and bullying), Green Dot, etc. primarily focuses on content development and training.
National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare (NCSACW), U.S. DHHS, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Provides tools and resources, training, and technical assistance around substance abuse as it relates to child welfare.

Key Tasks of Implementation, SAMHSA: This helpful two page information sheet from SAMHSA discusses how to carry out the three main tasks of implementation. This is an excerpt from the Substance Abuse Prevention Skills Training (SAPST), released with permission from CAPT.
What Are Core Components… and Why Do They Matter?, An online resource from SAMHSA discusses what core components for implementation are and the organizational changes that are often necessary in order to implement evidenced-based programs and practices. Core components are the most essential and indispensable components of an implementation practice or program. Visit http://captus.samhsa.gov/access-resources/what-are-core-components-and-why-do-they-matter for more information and additional resources.
Evidence-Based Practices for Effective Community Coalitions, This publication discusses the characteristics of community coalitions that have been found to be effective, such as: formalization, planning, inclusiveness, leadership and ongoing professional development.
People Power – Mobilizing Communities for Policy Change, This manual by CADCA (Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America) discusses the difference between community organizing and community mobilizing. Community mobilizing is described as a shorter-term process where a subject expert has defined the issue, has a specific solution in mind and encourages people to support the solution. The manual also provides ten steps to implement a policy and how to recruit and retain coalition members. Visit CADCA’s website for more resources: http://www.cadca.org/

User’s Guide: Assessing the Fidelity of Implementation of the SPF in Communities, 2008 National Workgroup
Includes a list of core activities for each step, each of which includes questions to consider in determining the fidelity to the SPF process
Final evaluation reports from other states that have completed the SPF process:
New Mexico
Nevada Final
Washington
West Virginia
Evaluation Guides
Kellogg Foundation Evaluation Handbook
Strategy Fidelity and Adaptations Worksheet for Social Marketing and Social Norms Campaigns

SPF Overview Resources

Step 1: Assessment

Step 2: Capacity

Step 3: Planning

Step 4: Implementation

Step 5: Evaluation

Step 6: Sustainability