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The Strategic Prevention Framework
has basically--really has significantly changed the way we do
business--prevention business--in the State of Colorado
We were fortunate to be a Cohort 1 State,
and i've said this in front of SAMHSA and I'll say it to the world,
is that no one knew what they were doing in those days and it was sort of like
the grand scheme was finally being unrolled. It was like:
here is the concept, now let's do it.
So we were able to create things together so
the idea, if you look at the Strategic Prevention Framework,
it's nothing
striking or unusual--it's a planning process.
You take that and then you begin applying it with the principles of prevention and you
begin saying, this is significant… to be able to say I'm going to go to a
community coalition, I'm going to have them do a needs assessment prior to funding.
We're going to look at what that needs assessment
identifies as our needs
in the community, which may or may not match my perception or our perception,
and then look at evidence-based practices and apply those evidence-based practices
evaluating our effectiveness and
impacting change. I think those are the concepts and the
realities that begin
our State prevention system thinking about
how we really do prevention in the State.
We are looking at impacting behavioral change
both at the community level, a State level, and an individual level.
I think that
in and of itself significantly changed the way we look at prevention through
our agency and the way we
provide resources and funds to our community coalitions