The Community Tool Box provides hundreds of practical, how-to sections for building skills in nearly every aspect of the work of community health and development, including many materials that support the implementation of the Strategic Prevention Framework. Each section of the Community Tool Box includes narrative content regarding the topic, real life examples, checklists for understanding, and tools to aid in the work. A newly written section – Chapter 2, Section 10: The Strategic Prevention Framework – may be particularly helpful. This section summarizes the SPF and links into many related tools freely available from the CTB that can help provide guidance for implementing the SPF in your community or state.

Here are some especially helpful additional resources for implementing the stages of the SPF:

Assessment

Toolkit 2: Assessing Community Needs and Resources

Toolkit 3: Analyzing Problems and Goals

Chapter 3: Assessing Community Needs and Resources

Chapter 17, Section 1: An Introduction to the Problem Solving Process

Chapter 17, Section 2: Thinking Critically

Chapter 17, Section 3: Defining and Analyzing the Problem

Chapter 17, Section 4: Analyzing Root Causes of the Problem: The “But why?” Technique

Chapter 37, Section 1: Information Gathering and Synthesis

Capacity Building

Toolkit 1: Creating and Maintaining Coalitions and Partnerships

Toolkit 6: Building Leadership

Toolkit 8: Increasing Participation and Membership

Toolkit 15: Improving Organizational Management and Development

Chapter 1, Section 3: Our Model of Practice: Building Capacity for Community and Systems Change

Chapter 1, Section 10: Using Internet-Based Tools to Promote Community Health and Development

Chapter 4: Getting Issues on the Public Agenda, especially:

Section 2: Developing a Plan for Getting Community Health and Development Issues on the Local Agenda

Section 3: Gaining Public Support for Addressing Community Health and Development Issues

Section 4: Talking About Risk and Protective Factors Related to Community Issues

Chapter 5, Section 5: Coalition Building I: Starting a Coalition

Chapter 5, Section 6: Coalition Building II: Maintaining a Coalition

Chapter 6: Promoting Interest in Community Issues

Chapter 7: Encouraging Involvement in Community Work, especially:

Section 1: Developing a Plan for Increasing Participation in Community Action

Section 2: Promoting Participation Among Diverse Groups

Section 6: Involving Key Influentials in the Initiative

Section 7: Involving People Most Affected by the Problem 

Chapter 9: Developing an Organizational Structure for the Initiative

Chapter 10: Hiring and Training Key Staff of Community Organizations

Chapter 11: Recruiting and Training Volunteers

Chapter 12: Providing Training and Technical Assistance

Chapter 13: Orienting Ideas in Leadership, especially:

Section 1: Developing a Plan for Building Leadership

Section 4: Styles of Leadership

Section 5: Developing a Community Leadership Corps: A Model for Service Learning

Section 11: Collaborative Leadership  

Chapter 14: Core Functions in Leadership

Chapter 15: Becoming an Effective Manager

Chapter 16: Group Facilitation and Problem Solving

Chapter 27: Cultural Competence in a Multicultural World, especially:

Section 2: Building Relationships with People from Different Cultures

Section 6: Creating Opportunities for Members of Groups to Identify Their Similarities, Differences, and Assets

Section 10: Understanding Culture, Social Organization, and Leadership to Enhance Engagement

Section 11: Building Inclusive Communities

Planning/Implementation

Toolkit 4: Developing a Framework or Model of Change

Toolkit 5: Developing Strategic and Action Plans

Toolkit 7: Developing an Intervention

Toolkit 8: Increasing Participation and Membership

Toolkit 10: Advocating for Change

Chapter 2, Section 1: Developing a Logic Model or Theory of Change

Chapter 8: Developing a Strategic Plan

Chapter 17, Section 6: Generating and Choosing Solutions

Chapter 17, Section 7: Putting Your Solution into Practice

Chapter 18: Deciding Where to Start

Chapter 19: Choosing and Adapting Community Interventions, especially:

Section 1: Criteria for Choosing Promising Practices and Community Interventions

Section 2: Understanding Risk and Protective Factors: Their Use in Selecting Potential Targets and Promising Strategies for Interventions

Section 3: Identifying Strategies and Tactics for Reducing Risks

Section 4: Adapting Community Interventions for Different Cultures and Communities

Chapter 20: Providing Information and Enhancing Skills, especially:

Section 8: Helping Parents Practice Prevention with Their Children and Teens

Section 9: Establishing Youth Organizations

Chapter 21: Enhancing Support, Incentives, and Resources

Chapter 22: Youth Mentoring Programs

Chapter 23: Modifying Access, Barriers, and Opportunities

Chapter 24: Improving Services, especially:

Section 1: Overview of Tactics for Improving Services

Section 8: Establishing a Peer Education Program

Chapter 25: Changing Policies, especially:

Section 1: Changing Policies: An Overview

Section 3: Using Tax Incentives for Support Community Health and Development

Section 4: Supporting Local Ordinances to Modify Access to Unhealthy Products and Practices           

Chapter 27, Section 7: Building Culturally Competent Organizations

Chapter 33: Conducting a Direct Action Campaign

Chapter 34:  Media Advocacy

Chapter 35: Responding to Counterattacks

Evaluation

Toolkit 12: Evaluating the Initiative

Chapter 1, Section 5: Our Evaluation Model: Evaluating Comprehensive Community Initiatives

Chapter 1, Section 11: Participatory Evaluation

Chapter 36: Introduction to Evaluation

Chapter 37: Some Operations in Evaluating Community Intervention

Chapter 38: Some Methods for Evaluating Comprehensive Community Initiatives

Chapter 39: Using Evaluation to Understand and Improve the Initiative

Chapter 40: Maintaining Quality Performance

Chapter 41: Rewarding Accomplishments

Sustainability and Cultural Competence

Toolkit 7: Developing an Intervention

Toolkit 9: Enhancing Cultural Competence

Toolkit 16: Sustaining the Work or Initiative

Chapter 7, Section 2: Promoting Participation Among Diverse Groups

Chapter 19, Section 4: Adapting Community Interventions for Different Cultures and Communities

Chapter 27: Cultural Competence in a Multicultural World

Chapter 45: Social Marketing of Successful Components of the Initiative

Chapter 46: Planning for Long-Term Institutionalization

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