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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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The Prevention Path Forward: What We Have Learned and What Is Next
Part 3 - Rethinking Risk: The Evolution of Harm Reduction [1] [1] Part 1- How Treatment Shaped the Prevention Landscape; Part 2- The...
APSI
Aug 294 min read
How to Select an Evidence-Based Prevention Intervention for My Community
In our other Nuggets we focused on defining prevention science and its application to practice. We introduced the work of the United...
APSI
Jun 277 min read
SUMMARY OF BLUEPRINTS FOR HEALTH DEVELOPMENT SU* PREVENTION PROGRAMS
*Substance Use Programs There are 7 Model and Model Plus programs and 12 Promising Programs included on the BluePrints website that...
APSI
Jun 251 min read
How Communications Regarding Marijuana Use Among Adolescents Can Have Unintended Outcomes
Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM)’s Drug Report’s Friday Fact report (December 6, 2024) ( https://mailchi.mp/bf7c96acbb6d/whats-happeni...
APSI
Jan 176 min read
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...
APSI
Nov 7, 20224 min read
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...
APSI
May 6, 20223 min read
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...
APSI
Apr 22, 20224 min read
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...
APSI
Mar 30, 20227 min read
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...
APSI
Mar 16, 20223 min read
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...
APSI
Jan 24, 20224 min read
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...
APSI
Sep 21, 20213 min read
Climate Change and Prevention
What has climate change to do with prevention? As we look at our Etiology Model, which identifies the primary influences over people’s...
APSI
Jul 16, 20214 min read
Developing Prevention Messages that Can Work
Prevention campaigns are often seen as the answer to addressing substance use in the community. They are visible, wide-reaching, and...
APSI
May 24, 20217 min read
Addressing E-cigarette and Marijuana Use With Environmental Prevention EBI Strategies
What are some of the key characteristics of evidence-based environmental prevention strategies for youth alcohol and tobacco use...
APSI
Apr 29, 20214 min read
Making the Case for Evidence-Based Prevention Systems
We have come to an historic time when several key events are coming together that underscore the importance of building infrastructures...
APSI
Mar 22, 20215 min read
Transitions to the 'New Normal' After COVID – How Can Prevention Help?
We go through transitions all of our lives. Probably the most traumatic is birth and death! Think about your lives….the normal individual...
APSI
Mar 9, 20215 min read
Bonding to Family and School: Measuring Impact on Adult Outcomes
Family and school connectedness have been identified as significant protective factors for preventing the onset of problem behaviors...
APSI
Feb 25, 20213 min read
Social Justice, Cultural Competence, Ethics, and Equity in the Planning and Implementation of EBI
Over the past 7 years, the Applied Prevention Sciences International (APSI) team has been developing a model for planning and...
APSI
Feb 15, 20214 min read
Replicating Evidence-Based Prevention Interventions and Policies: Why is fidelity important?
Before we talk about replicating evidence-based (EB) interventions with fidelity, let’s look at heart surgery. In 1953, Dr. Michael...
APSI
Feb 4, 20214 min read
Suicide Prevention in the Era of COVID 19
The summer edition [July 2020; Volume 50, Issue 5] of the American Public Health Association’s newsletter, The Nation’s Health, features...
APSI
Dec 11, 20203 min read
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