Prevention System Assessment

 Region 6 Prevention Services

 Date:              Please rate each question from 1 to 10.  1 is strongly disagree and 10
                                                             is strongly agree.  Assessment scores are an indication where the
 Coalition:                                           coalition is now.  Effectiveness scores indicate the priority for your
                                                             coalition.                                                                    

Leadership

The prevention system is guided by written vision and mission statements that have been developed and adopted by its members.

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Prevention system members believe they are collectively capable of making a difference.

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There is consensus on a definition of substance abuse that guides all the participating agencies and organizations.

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Prevention system members share a common understanding and use of evidence-based substance abuse prevention.

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The prevention system has analyzed and can articulate how its work fits within the larger community and complements, yet is distinguishable from, other community initiatives.

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The organizations and agencies that make up the prevention system influence and motivate each other and the rest of the community to accomplish mutually agreed upon prevention goals.

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The organizations and agencies that make up the prevention system have the political will to create positive community change.

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The prevention system has secured the support and investment of key stakeholders and opinion leaders.

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The prevention system and its membership is proactive in developing, supporting and modeling public and other policies that reinforce substance abuse prevention goals.

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The prevention system is successful in raising awareness about prevention issues within the community.

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Leadership of the prevention system reflects the demographics of the communities served, and includes a diverse set of stakeholders (e.g. community-based organizations, government agencies, and private businesses) to improve service design and delivery and to build ownership and support.

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Prevention system members model cultural diversity and inclusion within their own agencies and organizations.

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Leadership among prevention system members is a shared responsibility.

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The prevention system cultivates and develops new leadership on an ongoing basis.

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There are open channels of communication and interaction between the prevention system and the community

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All agencies and organizations whose mission includes prevention are represented in the prevention system.

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The prevention system involves recipients of its services in its work to improve service design and delivery and to build ownership and support.

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The initiative’s leaders have identified opportunities to participate in efforts to improve the overall policy and program environment (for example, standing advisory groups, opportunities to develop or comment on state plans for expending federal funds). 

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Prevention is identified as a priority program area and funded accordingly in the budgets of the prevention system member organizations and agencies.

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Prevention system members work collaboratively with each other and other prevention stakeholders to develop a comprehensive substance abuse prevention plan that guides substance abuse prevention decisions for the community.

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Prevention system members base decision making on carefully collected and analyzed data.

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The strategies implemented through the prevention system are comprehensive in scope, and include both environmental and individual strategies.

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The prevention system monitors changes in the policy and program environment to see how its initiatives could fit with new directives and agendas.

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Prevention system actions are guided by the collective needs of the community rather than the individual needs of its members

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The prevention system has an established identity and reputation within the community, and reports its activities, use of resources, and outcomes in user-friendly formats to the community on a regular and ongoing basis.

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Capacity

The prevention system has a well-defined team of staff, advisory or governance group members, volunteers, and others that it needs to accomplish its mission.

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The prevention system’s leaders and members understand and accept their roles and responsibilities.

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There is a designated department for substance abuse prevention within key community agencies and prevention system members.

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The prevention system and its member organizations and agencies have the capacity to allocate and manage financial and other (e.g. in-kind, volunteer, etc) prevention resources.

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The prevention system has established public-private partnerships to leverage private-sector funding, create leadership, and garner technical expertise in support of their work.

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The prevention system receives tangible support (funding, resources, staffing, other in-kind, etc.) from its members.

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Prevention system members have knowledge of resources that provide information on evidence-based prevention strategies that are scientifically proven to be effective.

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Members of the prevention system have the necessary knowledge, skills and ability to use data from the community as the basis for prevention planning and decision-making.

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Members of the prevention system have the necessary knowledge, skills and ability to use a logical, sequential, data-driven process for prevention planning and for selecting, implementing and evaluating prevention strategies.

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Prevention system members are knowledgeable about the risk and protective factors that affect youth substance abuse in their community.

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Prevention system members have the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to effectively use a combination of strategies to change the physical, social, legal and/or economic environment, as well as to change the behavior of individuals.

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Members of the prevention system have the necessary knowledge, skills and ability to use formal evaluation to help achieve desired substance abuse prevention goals.

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Prevention system members have the necessary skills and abilities to effectively share their prevention knowledge with others.

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The prevention system is able to leverage funds and other resources from multiple sources including federal sources such as Medicaid, tobacco settlement funds, unspent TANF funds, other federal entitlements, block grants, and discretionary programs) in order to support priority prevention initiatives.

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Prevention system members commit their own resources toward the collective action of the system

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The prevention system has identified and is pursuing ways to ensure the most efficient use of existing funds, such as “braiding” or coordinating funding streams across prevention system member agencies and organizations in order to maximize coordination and impact of prevention strategies on desired outcomes.

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Prevention system members are aware of—and are maximizing—all of the prevention funding streams that are available to the areas or region(s) they serve.

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The prevention system has identified and is pursuing ways to support the redirection or reallocation of funds (for example, using funds freed up through improved outcomes to finance more prevention activities).

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The prevention system and its member organizations and agencies are able to successfully acquire and leverage financial and other (e.g. in-kind, volunteer, etc) prevention resources to address prevention priorities.

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Prevention system members are able to meet national standards for culturally competent and linguistically appropriate services.