Key Strategic Prevention Framework Activities

A number of carefully designed and coordinated activities are contemplated for this multi-year initiative. These include the following activities.

1. Implementation of a statewide needs assessment, combining quantitative and qualitative methods to obtain estimates of needs and resources at community and state levels.
2. Development of a comprehensive community assets and resources map using geographic information system (GIS) technology, which can serve as the basis for integrated planning, training, resource and cost sharing, and resource allocation.
3. Extensive use of GIS for spatial epidemiology and scientific visualization of needs and resource data, thereby integrating a wide range of archival and needs assessment information.
4. Establishment of a functional data warehouse enabling program planners at all levels and across all human service organizations to have useful information available.
5. Expansion of the role of Kentucky's existing Epidemiology Workgroup to provide scientific expertise in the evaluation and synthesis of needs and resource data.
6. Establishment of a statewide, interagency strategic planning group empowered to make determinations about priority needs, targets for intervention (including community-level participation), training, and resource allocation.
7. Establishment of a SIG advisory group comprising experts and community members, to provide guidance and support in ongoing system development.
8. Development of a system of training for preventionists to assure competence in skills related to implementation of the Strategic Prevention Framework.
9. Engagement of targeted communities with in-depth planning, incorporating the close collaboration of all elements of the human service system.
10. Implementation of an integrated system of evidence-based prevention strategies in targeted communities, with continuous refinement and outcome measurement.

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