Foreward

Leaders of community-based organizations, concerned citizens, policymakers, and researchers agree that substance abuse prevention is crucial to the Nation's health. The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (CSAP/SAMHSA) understands that prevention planners have limited time and resources to search for and obtain information that is crucial for developing and implementing their programs. To apply state-of-the-art prevention knowledge to the development of their programs, prevention planners need this information in a timely and effective manner. The CSAP PreventionAlert Series was designed to meet this challenge. PreventionAlerts inform and educate practitioners about the field of prevention in a convenient, accessible format.

Through summaries and excerpts from CSAP monographs, research articles, and other publications, PreventionAlerts help CSAP customers synthesize, transfer, and promote prevention knowledge and technologies on a variety of intervention strategies. PreventionAlerts can quickly and efficiently report on a study, transfer knowledge, or provide practical guidance on a particular finding.

This PreventionAlert Compilation is an inventory of previous PreventionAlerts. It is designed to help decision makers understand what works and to help them select and implement successful prevention strategies. CSAP is committed to providing leadership in substance abuse prevention. We are confident that, based on continuing research and evaluation, we will be able to produce further articles and publications highlighting the successes of Prevention Works!

Karol Kumpfer, Ph.D.

Director

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration