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Environmental Strategies
Environmental strategies are focused on changing aspects of the environment that contribute to the use of alcohol and other drugs. Specifically, environmental strategies aim to decrease the social and health consequences of substance abuse by limiting access to substances and changing social norms that are accepting and permissive of substance abuse. They can change public laws, policies and practices to create environments that decrease the probability of substance abuse. Broadly defined, individual strategies are short-term actions focused on changing individual behavior, while environmental strategies involve longer-term, potentially permanent changes that have a broader reach (e.g., policies and laws that affect all members of society).
Environmental strategies are a proven powerful
way to address identified community problems such as, alcohol and tobacco
use, by changing the social and physical environment in which we live. The
following resources and materials may be useful in designing a localized effort
that addresses community needs.
Theory Behind Environmental
Strategies
Adapted from the Wisconsin Clearinghouse's Environmental Strategies Toolkit
this section covers the basic steps and principals of implementing environmental
strategies at the local level.
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Environmental Prevention
Strategies: An Introduction and Overview
This document discusses the benefits of implementing environmental strategies
and highlights the evidence of effectiveness.
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this document
Environmental Strategies
to Prevent Alcohol Problems on College Campuses
This document highlights a number of proven effective and promising strategies
that have been developed to prevent alcohol problems on college campuses.
It discusses strategies that help create healthier campus environments in
which alcohol is less available and more responsibly promoted and served.
www.udetc.org/documents/EnviroStrat.pdf
Environmental Strategies
for Preventing Substance Use Among Youth
This online guide is intended to help prevention professionals, community
leaders and parents who are committed to implementing comprehensive approaches
to the prevention of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drug problems. The guide
will provide the reader with information about specific environmental strategies,
citing research on evidence of effectiveness and noting where these strategies
remain "promising approaches" in light of limited research. This
resource also offers guidance on how to implement environmental strategies
and encourages the conduct of evaluation to document the effectiveness of
efforts.
www.eprevco.com/resourceguide/document1/Acknowledge.asp
Keep Kids Alcohol Free:
Strategies for Action
The strategies included in this guide were selected by a panel of scientists
convened by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, part of
the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services. It describes three basic prevention strategies and ways they can
be applied in the home, the school, and the community.
http://www.alcoholfreechildren.org/en/pubs/pdf/prevention.pdf
Pathways to Effective Programs
and Positive Outcomes
This document presents a capacity-building process for demonstrating and documenting
outcomes. It provides guidance on how community-based practitioners can better
ensure and demonstrate their effectiveness.
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Preventing Problems Related
to Alcohol Availability: Environmental Approaches
This practitioner's guide focuses on research and practice evidence for key
environmental approaches to the prevention of problems related to alcohol
availability. It evaluates six approaches.
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