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Our Alcohol, Other Drug and Violence Prevention Services are promote environmental strategies that are implemented by local collaborative efforts.  Local coalitions, school/community/family partnerships, town/gown committees and higher education consortiums are examples of local collaborative efforts that John Daviau Consulting, LLC has supported.

John Daviau Consulting, LLC is experienced with all steps of SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework as outlined below:


NEEDS ASSESSMENT
  • Support in locating and accessing existing data
  • Assistance in determining gaps in existing data
  • Data analysis
  • Identifying and prioritizing gaps in current and potential school/community needs

BUILDING CAPACITY
Coach educators and prevention practitioners to develop the skills necessary to plan for and implement effective prevention programs
  • Understand evidence-based prevention
  • Create a developmental approach to drug and violence prevention
  • Design effective programs that meet existing needs and fill gaps in services
  • Maintain fidelity in the adaptation of model programs

Determine current level of community readiness to implement effective prevention programs
  • Assess current level of community readiness
  • Identify key stakeholders for building community readiness
  • Create and implement plans to improve community readiness
  • Establish criteria to monitor readiness growth

Assess and build the necessary resources to ensure a successful prevention initiative
  • Conduct a resource assessment
  • Identify gaps in needed resources
  • Create a resource development plan to fill gaps in resource needs
  • Identify and integrate existing school & community resources into a comprehensive community-wide prevention initiative

Build local, regional and statewide coalitions
  • Mobilize new coalitions to begin start-up activities
  • Enhance and maintain existing coalitions
  • Ensure long-term coalition sustainability
  • Determine community strengths and barriers to growth

STRATEGIC PLANNING
Facilitate comprehensive planning processes aimed at meeting current and emerging community needs.
  • Develop and/or review current vision and mission
  • Create goals and measurable objectives
  • Match evidence-based programs and strategies to prioritized needs
  • Establish implementation timelines and accountabilities
  • Design benchmarks for measuring success
  • Incorporate evaluation feedback processes that allow for course corrections in program implementation

PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION SUPPORT
  • Provide training in evidenced-based prevention approaches
  • Translate research results from the cutting edge of national prevention research into practical and effective local programming that works for your school and community
  • Provide ongoing technical assistance and support necessary to maintain effective implementation that leads to the desired results
  • Guide program refinements based on regular evaluation feedback

EVALUATION SUPPORT
  • Represent and preserve program interests with internal or external evaluators
  • Guide the development of evaluation design to meet program, funder and customer needs
  • Ensure consistent evaluation feedback
  • Analyze evaluation feedback in order refine program implementation for increased success
  • Contribute to final program analysis and report writing



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