Resources

Abt Associates This evaluation report summarizes the progress made towards reaching the Hilton Foundation’s overarching goals for the Youth Substance Use Prevention and Early Intervention Strategic Initiative, highlights the key learnings emerging from the Initiative, and demonstrates the impact of this prevention and early intervention strategy. Key recommendations for the…

Abt Associates This evaluation report details the progress made towards reaching the Hilton Foundation’s overarching goals for the Youth Substance Use Prevention and Early Intervention Strategic Initiative, highlights activities and key learnings, and outlines recommendations to further advance the Initiative as it continues to grow and evolve. The report offers…

National Council for Behavioral Health In 2014, the Hilton Foundation provided funding to the National Council for Behavioral Health to develop the Reducing Adolescent Substance Abuse Initiative (RASAI). The initiative focused on prevention and early intervention of youth substance use and included implementation of SBIRT within community behavioral health settings…

Young People in Recovery This recovery-ready community strategy emphasizes the need to establish sustainable community-based recovery support infrastructures in order to combat adolescent substance use. Young People in Recovery’s model integrates eight key components, including: prevention, treatment, harm reduction, judicial and law enforcement, housing, education, employment, and recovery support. Each…

Youth-driven substance use prevention and early intervention. Drawing on the power of near-age, young adult peer mentors to deliver youth-centered, strengths-based prevention and early intervention to adolescents over 4-6 sessions.

New Hampshire Charitable Foundation This playbook is a compendium of actions and/or strategies identified through the New Hampshire Youth SBIRT Initiative implementation and related work, that will not only give providers a shared understanding of SBIRT, but will also help organizations to more effectively implement SBIRT into their clinical setting.

Andria Botzet, Tamara Fahnhorst, & Maureen Laschen The MPower Program serves to increase family communication and understanding around sensitive topics, especially alcohol and drug use, empower teems to make educated, healthy choices, and ultimately, reduce adolescent alcohol and drug use. The parent manual is designed to provide parents/guardians with additional…

Andria Botzet & Tamara Fahnhorst Created as part of the MPower Program, this manual serves as a guide for interventionists to implement the MPower program in a clinical setting. The manual describes a 4-session individual and family therapy model for use with adolescents who may be experiencing mild or moderate…

Lynn Silver & Alisa Padon, Public Health Institute This Model Ordinance was also written as part of the Public Health Institute’s Getting It Right from the Start: Local Regulation of Recreational Cannabis project, which provides guidance to help California jurisdictions reduce negative health impacts of legalization of recreational cannabis. The…

Facing Addiction Facing Addiction’s Community Convening Guide provides tools, how-to’s, and talking points that communities can use to plan events and lobby for policy changes. The Convening Guide includes a detailed outline for hosting local policy forums, with tips to help organizations meet with community leaders, format programs, identify strong…