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ABOUT THE IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE
This Implementation Guide is an online guide through which individuals can gain a meaningful understanding of the essential steps required to implement and evaluate environmental approaches to substance abuse prevention. Environmental prevention approaches are designed to reduce or eliminate substance use by making changes in the environment in which tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drugs are sold, purchased, and used. Environmental approaches involve changing policies, regulations, laws, and social norms to affect the access, availability, and use substances in the community.
The Implementation Guide is designed to help practitioners identify problems to be addressed, identify an environmental approach, evaluate implementation capacity and readiness, prepare for system changes, identify funding sources, collect baseline problem and needs assessment data, conduct other assessment tasks, implement the intervention, evaluate the intervention effectiveness, and document the project activities. To achieve these goals, the Implementation Guide guides practitioners through seven steps, each of which has numerous substeps, activities, and recommendations.
Resource Library. Throughout the Implementation Guide, you will find numerous hyperlinks to documents specifically designed to help you through all of the seven steps. These materials are located in what is called the Resource Library. It includes a wealth of worksheets, surveys, checklists, form letters, and other tools appropriate for the seven steps.
Case Study. To help the Implementation Guide come alive, we have developed and provided a case study. The case study involves a hypothetical example of a community-based organization that is working through the seven steps of the Implementation Guide. At the end of each step, you will be invited to review how the hypothetical organization has worked through the step. Please read the case study introduction.
This Implementation Guide was written by Mim Landry, Director of Editorial Services at Danya International. The case study and Resource Library was developed by Rebecca Reynolds, Project Coordinator at Danya. The tutorial was developed for the Environmental Strategies Research Dissemination project, through contract N44DA-0-5067 for the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Additional Danya staff for the contract includes Project Director Jennifer Weil, MA, Principal Investigator Susanna Nemes, PhD, and Research Associate Aaron Williams. The National Institute on Drug Abuse Project Officer is Larry Seitz, PhD.
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