Community Tool Box: Developing a Plan for Financial Sustainability
This toolkit section focuses on key actions and considerations to take for developing funding sustainability. In addition, it includes tips from the field, a checklist, examples, tools, and a PowerPoint summarizing the section’s key points.
Sustainability Primer: Fostering Long-Term Change to Create Drug-Free Communities
This document covers planning for sustainability of the coalition itself. It includes four chapters with the following focus areas: 1) Engaging Volunteers and Partners, 2) Building a Credible Process, 3) Ensuring Relevance, and 4) Creating a Sustainability Plan. Although the document is grounded in SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework and community drug-free coalitions, it has much […]
County Health Rankings and Roadmaps Action Center: Choose Effective Policies and Programs
The Action Center suite of resources provides guidance and tools to help communities create change related to health issues. This section provides activities and resources to guide communities in choosing strategies/prevention efforts that are a good fit with the readiness and culture of their community.
Creating Linguistically and Culturally Competent Suicide Prevention Materials
The guide contains key principles and steps as well as examples, tools, and resource lists. Although the guide is about adapting materials, much of it is also useful for creating new materials. The process it describes can be applied to many different formats, including print materials, television or radio public service announcements, and face-to-face presentations.
CDC: VetoViolence: Select, Adapt, Evaluate
This webpage provides an overview of violence prevention approaches that are based on the best available evidence and information on how to effectively select, deliver, adapt, and evaluate approaches for a community.
Community Tool Box: Increasing Participation and Membership
This toolkit provides guidance for increasing participation and engaging people and organizations in change efforts.
CDC Program Evaluation Framework
This framework guides practitioners in designing and conducting evaluation across many programs and settings. It can be used to build evidence, understand programs, and improve evidence-based decision making.
Suicide Reporting Recommendations
This webpage includes information on engaging media as partners, limiting suicide contagion, forming your story, and finding the right language. It also has a checklist for writing about and reporting on suicide.
Community Tool Box: Implementing Social Marketing
This section of the Community Tool Box assists in developing a social marketing effort to promote adoption and use of innovations.
SPRC: Strategic Communication Planning
This webpage contains four short webinar clips with expert advice on developing a communication plan, understanding your audience, and evaluating your efforts. Adapted from SPRC’s Strategic Communication Workshop Series, each video has a free, downloadable worksheet to help put these skills into practice. There are also links to other resources.
