Community Readiness for Drug Abuse Prevention

Download or read book Community Readiness for Drug Abuse Prevention written by Karol L. Kumpfer and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998-11 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the concept of community readiness for substance abuse prevention programming. Defines community readiness, provides a rationale for assessing a community's readiness prior to the planning or implementation of prevention activities, identifies seven factors for assessing community readiness, and offers strategies for increasing readiness factors found to be deficient. Case study. Intended for use with the handbook "Drug Abuse Prevention: What Works" and "Drug Abuse Prevention and Community Readiness: Training Facilitator's Manual."