What is CPI and what can it do for California communities? Vallejo Unified School District Prevention Programs Synergy Coalition Community Partners

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What is CPI and what can it do for California
communities?Vallejo Unified School District
Prevention ProgramsSynergy Coalition Community
PartnersStrong Children, Strong Families,
Strong CommunitiesHilton Garden Hotel,
Fairfield, CASeptember 9, 2005
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What is CPI?
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CPI is

• ADPs vehicle to provide Technical Assistance
  (TA) and Training services to community AOD
  prevention practitioners.

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Goals

• Bridge the gap between research and the practical
  needs of community AOD prevention practitioners.
• Establish a system to transfer research-based AOD
  prevention information to the field.
• Increase the number of effective community
  prevention practitioners.
• Increase the number of effective community
  prevention systems programs and services.
• Enhance the health and safety of communities
  throughout California.

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Performance Objectives

• Deliver 2000 days of Technical Assistance
• Provide 80 training events
• Produce and deliver four prevention bulletins
• Prepare two prevention documents
• Monitor and synthesize prevention research
  including evidence-based programs, strategies and
  approaches
• Develop capabilities to share and transfer
  information

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Why is CPI Needed?
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Need for CPITA and Training Services

• High turnover in the prevention field
• Rapid expansion in knowledge about prevention
  practices
• Need to implement Community Strategic Prevention
  Framework (5 Steps)
• Broaden community focus versus individual
  approaches.

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Strategic Prevention Framework Process
Profile population needs, resources, and
readiness to address the problems and gaps in
service delivery
Mobilize and/or build capacity to address needs
Develop a Comprehensive Strategic Plan
Implement evidence-based prevention programs and
infrastructure development activities
Monitor process, evaluate effectiveness, sustain
effective programs/activities, and improve or
replace those that fail
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Community FocusWhy?
Community Health

• The well-being of the people who share a common
  place or experience require changes in both the
  behavior of large number of individuals and in
  the conditions that affect their health.

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Types of Community Based TA Services

• Community organizing
• Coalition building/maintenance
• Strategic planning assistance
• Data (needs) assessment
• AOD policy development
• Media Advocacy
• RBS trainings/ English /Spanish / Korean
• Development of culturally appropriate programs
  services
• Rural and Underserved Population Outreach
• Evaluation

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CPI Services

• Product Development
• Research-based briefings/bulletins/papers
  (4 Tactics)
• County level documents (AOD County Profiles)

Involvement of broader Prevention Research
community

• Developing network of research centers throughout
  the country

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Binge Drinking
Social Norms
Policy Panels
Social Host Ordinances
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CPI Services (continued)

• Trainings
• Broad range of trainings through Prevention
  Extension
• New curricula continually updated
• Technical Assistance
• Facilitations to project/program specific
  services
• Subject matter expertise consultant pool 200
  plus
• On-line advancements (Training and TA )

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What has CPI accomplished so far this year?
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Accomplishments

• Products
• Examples
• Tactics (4)
• County AOD Profiles (58)
• Brief Intervention Services Curriculum
• AOD Strategies for Native American Communities
• Update Public Convenience or Necessity-A Guide
  for Local Government Brochure
• Grantwriting Part 2

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Accomplishments

• Services
• 2,092 days of TA and Training activities
• Over 100 Training Activities/Events which include
  Prevention Extension Workshops
• Increased Expert/Consultant Base by 45
• Prepare report on community approaches to meth
  prevention
• Chair GPAC Ad Hoc Committee on Meth
• 13 SIG Grantee TA Provider

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CPI Web Sitewww.ca-cpi.org
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www.ca-cpi.org 771 Oak Avenue Parkway, Suite
3 Folsom, CA 95630 916-983-8929-MAIN 916-983-5738
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