SAMHSAs Strategic Prevention Framework

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SAMHSAs Strategic Prevention Framework

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SAMHSAs Strategic Plan
VISION A Life in the Community for Everyone
MISSION Building Resilience and Facilitating
Recovery
ACEthe basis of SAMHSA programs
ACCOUNTABILITY
CAPACITY
EFFECTIVENESS
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Community Prevention Systems

• Bring the power of individual citizens and
  institutions together
• Create a comprehensive plan that everyone in the
  community has a stake in and owns
• Foster continued systems approaches as the
  community experiences the outcomes of its
  investments
• Hold community institutions accountable

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Key Principles Of The Strategic Prevention
Framework (SPF)

• Public Health Approach
• Follows a Strategic Planning Process

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SAMHSAs SPF Steps
Assessment
Capacity
Evaluation
Planning
Implementation
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Key Principles of the SPF

• Public Health Approach
• Follows a Strategic Planning Process
• Use Data throughout the process to inform
  decisions
• Outcomes Based Prevention

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The SPF and Cultural Competence

• Why cultural competence?
• To eliminate service and participation
  disparities for people of diverse racial, ethnic,
  and linguistic populations, as well as,
  consideration of gender, disabilities, and sexual
  orientation.
• To improve the effectiveness and the quality of
  the programs, policies and practices chosen to
  achieve, outcomes in targeted populations.

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The SPF and Cultural Competence

• To add to the body of knowledge, awareness and
  skill in the design, implementation, and delivery
  of prevention programs, policies, and practices.
• To promote the philosophy that an effective
  program is a culturally competent program across
  the board, i.e., agency, policies, staff, and
  programs/practices.

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Sustainability

• Sustaining outcomes, not programs
• Think sustainability from the beginning
• Look to the system to sustain outcomes
• Sustain prevention by making it everyones job!

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The Strategic Prevention Framework

• Prevention is a Continuum Prevention extends
  from deterring diseases and behaviors that
  contribute to them to slowing the onset and
  severity of illnesses when they do arise.
• Prevention is Prevention is Prevention The
  mechanisms of prevention are the same whether the
  target is on changing social, environmental or
  biological factors for many diseases.
• Successful Prevention Decreases Risk Factors and
  Enhances Protective Factors The same risk
  factors affect many health issues from
  depression and substance use to heart disease and
  diabetes. Other factors can protect against
  these health problems. The goal to reduce risk
  factors and enhance protective factors that can
  compromise health.
• Prevention Requires Adoption of Known Effective
  Prevention Practices Within a Framework That
  Works Research and experience have produced
  highly effective prevention programs to reduce
  risk factors and promote protective factors.
• Systems of Prevention Services Work Better Than
  Service Silos The best prevention results from
  partnerships without collaboration, even the
  best prevention efforts will not leverage
  collective resources and can miss achieving their
  potential.
• Common Data Sets Across Service Systems Can Help
  Asses Prevention Efficacy and Promote
  Accountability Solid evaluation can help assess
  programs effectiveness and the value of
  engagement across service systems.
• Recognizes the importance of States and
  communities- Coordinating funding and developing
  infrastructure.
• Comprehensively address Substance Abuse - Through
  multiple strategies across multiple sectors with
  both the public and private sector resources.