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Implementation Guide - Step Two: Assess the Community

Exhibit 2.1  RISK FACTORS AND SOCIAL INDICATORS

Risk Factor Social Indicator Data
(By Percent or Rate)
Availability of drugs. Alcohol and tobacco sales outcomes.
Alcohol and tobacco retail costs and taxes.
Annual household and student surveys.
Transitions and Mobility. New home construction.
Households in rental properties.
Net migration.
Low neighborhood attachment and community disorganization. Population voting in election by percent.
Extreme economic and social deprivation. Unemployment.
Free and reduced lunch program.
Aid to Families with Dependent Children.
Food stamp recipients.
Single parent family households.
Family history of problem behavior. Adults in substance abuse treatment.
Percent of adults without high school diplomas.
Prisoners in correctional systems.
Family management problems. Children living away from parents or living in foster care.
Family conflict. Divorce.
Favorable parental attitudes and involvement in problem behavior. Homicides.
Adult crime rates for arrests or reported offenses.
Alcohol-related fatalities.
Low commitment to school. Event and status dropouts.
Academic failure in elementary school. Dropouts prior to the ninth grade.
Early and persistent antisocial behavior. Vandalism arrests among youth.
Alcohol-related arrests among youth.
Personal and property crime arrests.
Alienation and rebelliousness. Adolescent suicide.
Early initiation of the problem behavior. Juvenile alcohol-related arrests.
Juvenile drug-related arrests.
Juvenile arrests for violent crimes.
Juvenile arrests for vandalism and disorderly conduct.
Juvenile arrests for property crimes.
Adolescent pregnancies and birthrate among juveniles.
Adapted from Montana’s Department of Public Health and Human Services Drug and Alcohol Prevention Risk and Protective Factor Report System.
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