How the “Core Competencies” Help to Professionalize the Prevention Workforce
April 2022 our Prevention Nugget, “Building Prevention Systems: Prevention Professionals,” described the importance of having a...
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Prevention Nuggets
Welcome to "Prevention Nuggets", a space where we deliver key information to prevention professionals around the world. We address topics on prevention science and practice, etiology models, critical theories, ethics, environments for prevention, and many other issues fundamental to evidence-based prevention practice.
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APSI
- Sep 12, 2023
- 1 min
Does APSI Training Make A Difference? Some Evidence That It Does! – Pt 3
In Parts 1 and 2 of this series, we presented evidence that APSI courses and training not only improve the knowledge of the training...
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APSI
- Sep 4, 2023
- 3 min
Does APSI Training Make A Difference? Some Evidence That It Does! – Pt 2
During the last 3 years, APSI has been engaged in extensive work to revise and update UPC into our new series called Foundations of...
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APSI
- Aug 21, 2023
- 3 min
Does APSI Training Make A Difference? Some Evidence That It Does! - Part 1
In our extensive development work on the Universal Prevention Curriculum series, APSI and its scientist collaborators were involved in...
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APSI
- Jun 23, 2023
- 5 min
Normalization of Prevention Principles and Practices to Reduce Substance Use Disorders
Normalization of science-based prevention practices, what do we mean? Over the past 30 years, we have seen some remarkable research...
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APSI
- May 25, 2023
- 4 min
Law Enforcement and Prevention of Problem Behaviors
An Important Connection to Improve the Health and Safety of Our Communities[1] Why is the connection between law enforcement and...
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APSI
- Feb 7, 2023
- 5 min
Is Your Community Ready to Support Comprehensive Prevention Programming?—Part 3:
Building a Community-Based Implementation System for Prevention In Parts 1 and 2 of this series we described having a culture of...
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APSI
- Jan 12, 2023
- 9 min
Is Your Community Ready to Support Comprehensive Prevention Programming?—Part 2
Defining Community and Community Readiness Part 1 in this #PreventionNuggets series addressed the challenging issue of having a culture...
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APSI
- Dec 9, 2022
- 4 min
Is Your Community Ready to Support Comprehensive Prevention Programming? Pt. 1:Culture of Prevention
As we have seen in our earlier Nuggets(1) building a system of evidence-based prevention programs in a community to meet the needs of...
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APSI
- Nov 7, 2022
- 4 min
What is in a Name and Other Concerns about Substance Use Language
Since the early 1970’s, the primary Federal agencies that fund substance use prevention and treatment research and services have included...
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APSI
- Sep 15, 2022
- 8 min
Psychoactive Substances and the Developing Brain: New Findings Underscore Prevention Need
Recent research on the brain is showing how the use of nicotine, alcohol, cannabis, and other psychoactive substances can impact the...
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APSI
- Aug 8, 2022
- 3 min
Helping Adolescents Transition Into and Out of High School (3): How Schools provide the key
Schools Provide Key Knowledge and Skills to Help Students Address Risks and Succeed Academically This is the third of a three-part series...
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APSI
- Jul 7, 2022
- 3 min
Helping Adolescents Transition Into and Out of High School (2): Parents, Caregivers, Family Members
How Can Parents, Caregivers, and Other Family Members Help Meet the Challenge This is the second of a three-part series on helping...
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APSI
- Jun 13, 2022
- 5 min
Helping Adolescents Transition Into and Out of High School (1): Why Are Transitions So Challenging?
This is the first of a three-part series on helping adolescents transition through two significant periods, entering into and adapting...
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APSI
- May 6, 2022
- 3 min
Building Prevention Systems: The System
Most of us working in prevention recognize how difficult it is to describe a single prevention system that provides the spectrum of...
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APSI
- Apr 22, 2022
- 4 min
Building Prevention Systems: Prevention Professionals
This is the third Prevention Nugget to address Building Prevention Systems. As indicated before, there are four Prevention Nuggets on...
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APSI
- Mar 30, 2022
- 7 min
Building Prevention Systems: Evidence-Based Prevention and Harm Reduction Services
This is the second Prevention Nugget to address Building Prevention Systems. As indicated before, there are four Prevention Nuggets on...
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APSI
- Mar 16, 2022
- 3 min
Building Prevention Systems: Who Are the Consumers of Prevention and Harm Reduction Services?
Prevention professionals work in a variety of systems to provide services to the public; these include systems of public health, health...
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APSI
- Jan 24, 2022
- 4 min
Prevention, Treatment and Harm Reduction: How Are These Defined in Today’s Prevention Work?
Although there are variations in the definition of prevention, there are some key elements of all definitions that are based on the...
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APSI
- Sep 21, 2021
- 3 min
Emphasizing the “M” in M & E: Why is Monitoring Important?
Most of us working in prevention are challenged to think about the potential impact of our work. Preventing substance use and similar...
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