The 7 Strategies for Community Change: Your Guide to Environmental Prevention Efforts that Work!

CEUs: Prevention, CHES
3 Hours
Domains: P5 Public Policy & Environmental Change

Description:
Many prevention professionals and community coalitions work diligently in deciding which prevention strategies to implement within their communities. With a plethora of both individual and environmental prevention options, how do you choose, and which ones are going to have the greatest preventative impact on your community? The first step in the process is acknowledging that behavioral health concerns are rooted in vastly complex histories with family, social, historical, economic, and equity influences. Therefore, in order to create community level change, we must agree that our community’s solutions need to be as complex as the behavioral health issues themselves, and that requires prevention professionals to think very comprehensively. One such tool that allows us to do so is the Seven Strategies for Community Change developed by the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA), though is applicable and easily applied to a variety of different problems of practice. This session will define this framework, with an introduction to both the individual and environmental strategies that can be chosen by a community when determining its comprehensive plan to address the behavioral health concerns in their defined community.

Learning Objectives:

1. Define the Seven Strategies for Community Change framework.
2. Diffrentiate between individual prevention strategies and community-level/environmental prevention strategies.
3. Identify a prevention plan for their unique community that incorporates environmental prevention strategies.

Presenter(s):
Andrea Hoff MPA, GPC, OCPC, ICPS
Amy Hamilton MPA, OCPS