TRAINING

APSI has developed and tested training for prevention professionals both at the supervisory and direct services level that has been implemented internationally since 2014, with APSI updates annually. The focus of the training is on prevention science and its application in practice to support the faithful delivery of evidence-based prevention programs to families, in schools, in workplaces, through the enforcement of community-based policies, messaging through the media, in enhancing community-based coalitions to support the delivery of multiple evidence-based prevention programming, and in the development and implementation of monitoring and evaluation systems. Pre/post tests and evaluations of the training experience are conducted with every training, providing feedback to APSI staff to improve the training experience and to the funders of the trainings for their edification.

With the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, APSI conducted a randomized controlled trial of its school-based curriculum. The one- and two-year post training findings showed that the treatment schools, i.e., those whose staff received APSI training sustained the delivery of evidence-based school programs including school policies regarding substance use AND compared to students in the control schools, students in the treatment schools reported less substance use for themselves and their peers and lower rates of intentions to use in the future along with more negative attitudes towards substance use along with other similar measures.

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*This Curriculum includes content from various sources, including the Universal Prevention Curriculum Series, developed by APSI with funding from the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, U.S. Department of State; the International Standards on Drug Use Prevention, developed by the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime in 2013, and updated in 2018 with the World Health Organization; and the European Drug Prevention Quality Standards, developed by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction in 2011 and with a quick guide published in 2013. Specific sources from organizations and the academic literature are cited throughout the text.

Training Participants share their learning and experience with us...

“Being new to prevention, one thing I learned…was the etiology model. I plan to use that in my work when determining risk and protective factors.”

“One thing I learned is the importance of each step in the community-based implementation process.”

"Stating clear objectives of what I expect to get as a result of a meeting . I have seen that done but have no objectives myself. I now realize how valuable that is"