The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) and the Center for Applied Research Solutions (CARS) are pleased to announce the continuation of the NO-COST Community Prevention Initiative (CPI) Online Training Series – Professional Competencies in Substance Abuse Prevention.
These online trainings provide the prevention field an opportunity to gain or expand their knowledge in foundational topics, including the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) model. The training modules can be taken individually or as a whole series, to best meet your needs.
Currently, there are 13 modules across three courses in the Professional Competencies series:
- Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) Competency Series
- Assessment (assessing need, resources and readiness)
- Capacity Building (building capacity and community organizing)
- Planning (using outcome based logic models and developing strategic plans)
- Implementation (implementing evidence-based policies, programs and practices)
- Evaluation (monitoring and evaluating for improvement and decision making)
- Prevention 101: Key Concepts in Prevention
- Defining Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Prevention (SUD prevention, services, spectrum of use)
- Drug Classification (overview of seven different drug classifications)
- Federal and State Prevention Systems (organizations that work collaboratively to prevent SUDs)
- Prevention Theories (theoretical frameworks that inform why and how prevention strategies are effective)
- Institute of Medicine and Risk Classifications (introduction to the Continuum of Care and the IOM model)
- Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) (six categories of prevention strategy developed by CSAP)
- Strategic Planning Framework (SPF) (overviews the SPF, a guiding framework that is grounded in data-driven, outcome-based planning principles
- Ethics in Substance Use Disorder Prevention
- Ethics in Substance Use Disorder Prevention (understanding and applying ethical principles in decision making)