Abstract: Key Findings of Two Prevention Programs Funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) (Society for Prevention Research 24th Annual Meeting)

Schedule:

Thursday, June 2, 2016

Grand Ballroom C (Hyatt Regency San Francisco)

* noted as presenting author

Costella Denisse Green, MHS, Chief, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Rockville, MD

Tonia Gray, MPH, Senior Public Health Advisor, SAMHSA, Rockville, MD

Charlotte Olson, BA, Public Health Advisor, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Rockville, MD

John Park, PHD, Senior Public Health Analyst, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Rockville, MD

Minnjuan W. Flournoy Floyd, PhD, Social Science Analyst, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Rockville, MD

Tom Clarke, PhD, Social Science Analyst, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Rockville, MD

Background: The mission of the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) is to prevent the onset of illegal drug use, prescription drug misuse and abuse, alcohol misuse and abuse, and underage alcohol and tobacco use at the state, community, and local levels by advancing policies and programs. Two grant programs in their prevention portfolio are: The Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant (SPF-SIG) and the Sober Truth On Preventing Underage Drinking Act (STOP Underage Drinking Act) programs.

Approach: The purpose of the CSAP’s STOP Act grants is to prevent and reduce alcohol use among youth ages 12-20 in communities throughout the United States. STOP Act grant funds must focus primarily on strengthening collaboration among community entities to reduce alcohol use among youth in current and former Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program grantees. SPF-SIG is a SAMHSA infrastructure grant program implemented by (1) preventing the onset and reduce substance misuse, including childhood and underage drinking; (2) reduce substance misuse and use related problems in communities; and (3) build prevention capacity and infrastructure at the grantee and subrecipient community levels.

Results: In the second program, performance of the STOP Act grantees is compared with DFC funded coalitions without STOP Act funding on the following measures: past 30-day alcohol use, perceptions of risk of alcohol use, perception of parental disapproval of alcohol use, and attitude toward peer alcohol use. The measures were collected through CSAP’s progress reporting system. The majority of communities with STOP Act funding showed improvements between baseline and follow up. For SPF-SIG, data on the grantee, community, and individual participant level were collected and analyzed to evaluate program impact.

Conclusions: A greater percentage of youth reported perceiving moderate or great risk of alcohol use among STOP Act grantees compared to DFC coalitions without STOP Act funding. Available data from the evaluation of two cohorts of SPF-SIG showed that grantees were actively engaged in SPF activities and experienced improvements in different measures of underage drinking.

Abstract: Key Findings of Two Prevention Programs Funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) (Society for Prevention Research 24th Annual Meeting)

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