Prevention With Purpose A Strategic Planning Guide for Preventing Drug Misuse Among College Students

This guide is intended to provide a road map for university prevention professionals to collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders, from students to administrators, to address campus-wide drug misuse issues.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 5

INTRODUCTION 7

So What Can Be Done? 7

How To Use This Guide 8

CHAPTER 1:

Drug Misuse Prevention Landscape 10

History of Drug Legislation and How It Affects Current Campus Drug Misuse Prevention 11

Current Trends in Young Adult Drug Use 12

So What Does This Mean? 13

The Impact of Environment 14

Higher Risk Groups of Students 18

Federal Policies That Affect Prevention on College Campuses 20

CHAPTER 2:

Using the Strategic Prevention Framework to Prevent Drug Misuse Among College Students 22

Strategic Prevention Framework 23

Cultural Competence 25

Sustainability 26

Characteristics of the SPF 27

CHAPTER 3:

How to Assess Drug Misuse on Your Campus 28

STEP 1: Assess Problems and Related Behaviors 30

STEP 2: Assess Risk and Protective Factors 33

STEP 3: Assess Capacity for Prevention 36

STEP 4: Share Your Assessment Findings 37

CHAPTER 4:

How to Build Capacity to Prevent Drug Misuse on Your Campus 38

STEP 1: Engage Diverse Community Stakeholders 40

STEP 2: Develop and Strengthen a Prevention Team 44

STEP 3: Raise Community Awareness of the Issue 45

CHAPTER 5:

How to Plan a Successful Drug Misuse Prevention Program on Your Campus 46

Prioritize Risk and Protective Factors 47

Select Appropriate Interventions to Address Priority Factors 49

Determine How Many Interventions You Can Realistically Implement 52

Build a Strategic Plan (or Logic Model) and Share with Your Stakeholders 53

CHAPTER 6:

How to Implement a Successful Drug Misuse Prevention Program on Your Campus 55

Connect with Key Implementation Partners 56

Balance Intervention Fidelity and Adaptation 57

Fidelity: Maintain Core Components 57

Adaptation: Modify with Care 58

Establish Implementation Supports 59

Prevention with Purpose: A Strategic Planning Guide for Preventing Drug Misuse among College Students 4

CHAPTER 7:

How to Evaluate Your Drug Misuse Prevention Program 61

Diferent Types of Evaluation 63

Four Basic Evaluation Principles 65

Evaluation Tasks 66

CHAPTER 8:

Advice for Established and Emerging College AOD Misuse Prevention Professionals: A Conversation with Dolores Cimini, University at Albany 73 For Established Professionals 74

New Professionals 77

A Final Note 78

ENDNOTES 79

APPENDIX A:

Additional Resources 85

APPENDIX B:

Tools, Worksheets, and Tips 89 

A key resource and planning guide for parents of teen and college age children, health advisers, primary and secondary teachers, social workers, general medical professionals, drug and chemical substance abuse professionals.