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Kansas Strategic Prevention Framework
Kansas Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) Grant to Reduce Underage Drinking
Contents:
- About the Kansas SPF-SIG
- SPF-SIG State-Level Workgroups
- State Epidemiological Profile
- Kansas State Plan
- Grant to Reduce Underage Drinking
- Kansas SPF-SIG Resources
- For More Information
About the Kansas Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant (SPF-SIG)
The reduction and prevention of underage drinking is the focus of a five-year, 10.5 million dollar cooperative agreement awarded to Kansas in 2006 by the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP). The Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant (SPF-SIG) is intended to:
- Build Capacity
Build capacity and infrastructure at the state and local level to sustain effective substance abuse prevention strategies.
- Delay the onset of substance abuse
Delay onset of substance use, including childhood and underage drinking, and reduce the progression of substance abuse.
- Reduce substance abuse and related consequences
Reduce substance abuse and related problems in targeted communities and at the population level.
- Sustainable statewide framework for effective prevention
Develop a sustainable statewide Strategic Prevention Framework to sustain a multidisciplinary structure to enhance prevention programs, policies, and practices.
- Implement a process for infusing data across all SPF steps for improved decision making
Through a comprehensive assessment process, Kansas has identified a state priority of reducing underage drinking, as defined by two indicators: binge drinking and past 30-day alcohol consumption by youth.
Kansas was among the third set of states to receive a SPF-SIG grant from CSAP. The Kansas SPF-SIG will support statewide efforts for the implementation and sustainment of effective, culturally competent prevention strategies. This includes coordinated processes for state and local level assessment, capacity building, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
SAMHSA's Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF)
The Strategic Prevention Framework is SAMHSA’s planning model for prevention that is relevant across many disciplines, including substance abuse, mental health promotion, and other prevention areas. The SPF entails the collection and use of data at all steps to support data-informed decision-making, and requires that throughout the process, cultural competency and sustainability are infused throughout the process. The SPF consists of five basic steps:
1. Needs, resources and readiness assessment
2. Capacity building
3. Comprehensive strategic planning
4. Implementation of evidence-based strategies (programs, policies, and practices)
5. Evaluation and monitoring
The five steps of the SPF process are highly inter-dependent, and are part of an on-going, circular process (as can been seen in Figure 1), beginning with the assessment. As part of step two, capacity development and mobilization are essential components, followed by the creation of a comprehensive strategic plan in step three to address the priority areas identified through the needs assessment. The implementation of evidence-based prevention strategies (i.e., programs, policies, and practices), and monitoring and evaluation of outcomes obtained complete the five-step process.
Additionally, cultural competence and sustainability are inter-woven into the SPF, and emphasizes the importance of attending to these elements across assessment, capacity building, planning, implementation, and evaluation. Sustainability is defined as the process through which a prevention system becomes a norm and is integrated into ongoing operations. Sustainability is vital to ensuring that prevention values and processes are firmly established, that partnerships are strengthened, and that financial and other resources are secured over the long term. Cultural competence refers to the process of communicating with audiences from diverse geographic, ethnic, racial, cultural, economic, social, and linguistic backgrounds. Becoming culturally competent is a dynamic process that requires cultural knowledge and skill development at all levels, including policymaking, program implementation, and practice.
SPF-SIG State-Level Workgroups
Kansas Substance Abuse Profile Team (State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup)
The Kansas Substance Abuse Profile Team (KSAPT), established in March 2006, is an ongoing state epidemiological outcomes workgroup composed of data specialists representing state agencies, service providers, and research organizations responsible for creating a comprehensive profile detailing the burden and consequences of substance use across the state that allows for the analysis of the trends and inter-relationships across data sets. The KSAPT is a significant enhancement to the state-level data infrastructure, and ensures that high-quality data is available for prevention planning, evaluation and sustainability decisions at the state and community level.
Prevention Coordinating Council
The Prevention Coordinating Council (PCC ) was convened in October 2006 and is comprised of designated staff representatives from the Kansas Health and Human Services (HHS) Sub-Cabinet. In addition to advising the planning and implementation of SPF resources, the PCC reviews recommendations from the SPF Advisory Council regarding systemic changes in policies, programs, and practices that will substantially reduce the burden of substance abuse and related disorders on Kansans. The PCC is also tasked with engaging in strategic conversations at the state agency level about how prevention can be coordinated across agencies as a long-term approach to leveraging resources, comprehensive planning, and sustainment.
SPF Advisory Council
The Kansas SPF Advisory Council is a multi-disciplinary team representing state and community agencies and organizations. The SPF Advisory Council is responsible for providing strategic and operational recommendations for the implementation of all steps of the SPF process, and subsequent funding proposals developed by local communities.
The KSAPT was responsible for the development of the Kansas Substance Abuse Epidemiological Indicators Profile through a grant awarded by SAMHSA/CSAP. Membership on the KSAPT includes representatives from: DATACORP, the Kansas Department on Aging, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Governor’s Grants Program, Greenbush Data and Information Systems Group, the Kansas Juvenile Justice Authority, the Kansas African American Affairs Commission, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the Kansas Department of Corrections the Office of Health Promotion, Kansas
Department of Health and Environment, the Kansas Department of Revenue, Alcoholic Beverage Control, the Kansas Department of Transportation, the Kansas State Department of Education, the Regional Prevention Center of Northwest Kansas – Hays, the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, and the University of Kansas Work Group for Community Health and Development.
The Kansas State Plan was reviewed and approved by CSAP in September, 2007. This document details the process of data collection and analysis leading up to the identification of the Kansas state priority, and outlines processes for capacity development, implementation (including the provision of technical assistance and the dissemination of SPF-SIG funding to communities), and evaluation.
Grant to Reduce Underage Drinking
In January 2008, the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services (SRS) awarded Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) Grants to fourteen Kansas community partnerships to support efforts to prevent and reduce underage drinking. Grants were awarded to the following community partnerships:
Clay Counts – Clay County
Drug Free Osage County – Osage County
Finney County Community Health Coalition – Finney County
Harper County ICC – Harper County
Kingman County Substance Abuse Prevention Group – Kingman County
Liberal Area Coalition for Families – Seward County
Linn County Children’s Coalition – Linn County
Quality of Life Coalition, Inc. – Dickinson County
Reno County Communities That Care Coalition – Reno County
Russell County Community Partnership – Russell County
Safe Streets Coalition – Shawnee County
Sumner County Community Drug Action Team – Sumner County
United 4 Youth – Nemaha County
Woodson County Interagency Coalition – Woodson County
Planning grant awards were allocated to support a ten-month planning process to develop community-based plans to impact underage drinking. Additional funds will be allocated through a second phase of the SPF-SIG to support implementation of approved community plans over the next three years. In all, 85% of SPF-SIG funds will be allocated to community-based organizations to support local efforts to address underage drinking.
Helpful websites and online SPF-SIG resources:
Kansas
Kansas SPF-SIG
http://spfsig.connectks.org/new/?page=assment.php
Kansas Communities That Care Data Navigator
http://beta.ctcdata.org/
National
SAMHSA’s Prevention Platform
https://preventionplatform.samhsa.gov/Macro/CSAP/dss_portal/Templates_redesign/start
Southwest Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies
http://captus.samhsa.gov/southwest/about/SouthwestAbout.cfm
Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) Coalition Institute
http://www.coalitioninstitute.org/
SPF Project Team:
Kelly Peak, SPF Project Director
Director of Prevention, Division of Strategic Development
Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
Kelly.Peak@srs.ks.gov
Sarah Fischer, SPF Project Manager
Division of Strategic Development
Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
Sarah.Fischer@srs.ks.gov
Sara Argo, SPF Project Assistant
Division of Strategic Development
Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
Sara.Argo@srs.ks.gov
Hope Sullivan McMickle, SPF Consultant
Division of Strategic Development
Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
Hope.SullivanMcMickle@srs.ks.gov
Lisa Chaney, SPF-SIG Evaluation Coordinator
Data and Information Systems Group
Southeast Kansas Education Service Center/Greenbush
lisa.chaney@greenbush.org
Harlen Hays, SPF-SIG Epidemiologist
Office of Health Promotion
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
hhays@kdhe.state.ks.us
Page updated: April 7, 2008