Sources

This is a partial list of the sources used in Assessing Community Coalitions.  The full list can be obtained from Drug Strategies.

M. Aguirre-Molina and D.M. Gorman.  “Community-Based Approaches for the Prevention of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Use.”  Annual Review of Public Health, 17:337-358, 1996.

D.G. Altman. “Sustaining Interventions in Community Systems: On the Relationship Between Researchers and Communities.”  Health Psychology, 14(6):526-536, 1995.

Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America.  Lessons from the Field: Community Anti-Drug Coalitions as Catalysts for Change. Alexandria, VA: CADCA, September 2000.

S. B. Fawcett et al. “Evaluating Community Coalitions for Prevention of Substance Abuse:  The Case of Project Freedom.”  Health Education & Behavior, 24(6):812-828, 1997.

P. Florin, R. Mitchell and J. Stevenson.  “Identifying Training and Technical Assistance Needs in Community Coalitions: A Developmental Approach.” Health Education Research, 8(3):417-432, 1993.

V.T. Francisco, A.L. Paine and S. B. Fawcett. “A Methodology for Monitoring and Evaluating Community Health Coalitions.” Health Education Research, 8(3):403-416, 1993.

R. M. Goodman et al.  “An Ecological Assessment of Community-Based Intervention for Prevention and Health Promotion: Approaches to Measuring Community Coalitions.”  American Journal of Community Psychology, 24(1):33-61, 1996.

N. H. Gottlieb, S.G. Brink and P.L. Gingiss.  “Correlates of Coalition Effectiveness: The Smoke Free Class of 2000 Program.” Health Education Research, 8(3):375-384, 1993.       

J.D. Hawkins, R.F. Catalano and Associates.  Communities that Care: Action for Drug Abuse Prevention. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1992

P.S. Jellinek, and R. P. Hearn.  “Fighting Drug Abuse at the Local Level.” Issues in Science and Technology, 7(4):78-84, 1991.

Join Together. Results of the Fourth National Survey on Community Efforts to Reduce Substance Abuse and Gun Violence, Boston, MA: Join Together, February 1999.

S. Kaftarian and R. Yin (eds.). “Local and National Outcomes from Community Partnerships to Prevent Substance Abuse.”  Evaluation and Program Planning, Special Section, 20(3):293-377, 1997.

S. Kaftarian and W. Hansen (eds.). “Community Partnership Program, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention.”  Journal of Community Psychology, Special CSAP Issue, 1994.

K.L. Kumpfer et al. “Leadership and Team Effectiveness in Community Coalitions for the Prevention of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse.” Health Education Research, 8(3):359-374, 1993.

R. K. Lewis et al. “Evaluating the Effects of a Community Coalition’s Efforts to Reduce Illegal Sales of Alcohol and Tobacco Products to Minors.”  Journal of Community Health, 21(6):429-436, 1995.

A. Paine-Andrews et al.  “Community Coalitions to Prevent Adolescent Substance Abuse:  The Case of the “Project Freedom” Replication Initiative.”  Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community, 14(5):81-99, 1997.

M. A. Pentz, “Preventing Drug Abuse through the Community: Multicomponent Programs Make the Difference,” in Z. Sloboda and W.B. Bukoski (eds).  Putting Research to Work for the Community. NIDA Research Monograph #98-4293. 1998

B.R. Thompson, A. Spickard Jr. and G. L. Dixon.  Fighting Back The First Eight Years: Mobilizing People and Communities in the Fight Against Substance Abuse. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2001.

A. Wandersman, et al.  “Toward a Social Ecology of Community Coalitions.”  American Journal of Health Promotion, 10(4):299-306, 1996.

Federal Government Resources:

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP). Prevention Works Through Community Partnerships: Findings from SAMHSA/CSAP’s National Evaluation.  July 2000

National Institute of Justice. Case Studies of Community Anti-Drug Efforts.  NCJ 149316,  1994.

Substance Abuse and Mental health Services Administration (SAMHSA).  Reducing Tobacco Use Among Youth: Community-Based Approaches, A Guideline for Prevention Practitioners.  January 1997.

Drug Strategies Publications

Critical Choices: Making Drug Policy at the State Level (2001)

Smart Steps: Treating Baltimore’s Drug Problem (2000)

North Carolina Youth Action Plan: Preventing and Treating Substance Abuse (2000)

City Profiles on Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Use and Programs that Reduce these Problems (1999):

Detroit Profile

Facing Facts: Drugs and the Future of Washington, D.C.

Santa Barbara Profile

Making the Grade: A Guide to School Drug Prevention Programs (1996, 1999)

Drug Courts: A Revolution in Criminal Justice (1999)

Lessons from the Field: Profiling City Alcohol, Tobacco & Other Drug Problems (1999)

Lessons from the Field: Profiling State Alcohol, Tobacco & Other Drug Problems (1999)

Millennium Hangover: Keeping Score on Alcohol (1999)

City Views on Drug Abuse: A Washington, D.C. Survey (1998)

Keeping Score: What We Are Getting for Our Federal Drug Control Dollars (1995, 1996, 1997, 1998)

Passing Judgement: The U.S. Drug Certification Process (1998)

Safe Schools, Safe Students: A Guide to Violence Prevention Strategies (1998)

State Profiles on Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Use and Programs that Reduce These Problems:

Kansas Profile (1998)

Rural Indiana Profile (1998)

South Carolina Profile (1998)

Arizona Profile (1997)

California Profile (1995)

Massachusetts Profile (1995)

Ohio Profile (1995)

Americans Look at the Drug Problem (1994, 1995, 1997)

Cutting Crime: Drug Courts in Action (1997)

Forging New Links: Police, Communities and the Drug Problem (1997)

Implementing Welfare Reform: Solutions to the Substance Abuse Problem (1997)

Rethinking International Drug Control: New Directions for U.S. Policy (1997)

Drugs and Crime Across America: Police Chiefs Speak Out (1996)

Drugs, Crime and Campaign ‘96 (1996)

Investing in the Workplace: How Business and Labor Address Substance Abuse (1996)

Drugs and Crime: Questions and Some Answers for Broadcasters (1995)

Survey Instruments

The following survey instruments developed for Assessing Community Coalitions may be obtained from Drug Strategies:

Expert Advisory Panel Questions
Nine questions for experts in the prevention field designed to identify various aspects of community coalitions, including: different coalition types; implementation methods, community influence; barriers to, and key elements of, success; need for training;  and evaluation.
Print it from the web.
Download the document.

Coalition Mail Survey
18-question survey mailed to coalition leaders regarding basic coalition structure and functioning, including early history, composition of membership, staffing, type of interventions, obstacles, and funding history.
Print it from the web.     
Download the document.

Coalition Telephone Survey
Approximately 45-minute telephone survey with coalition leaders to further explore coalition structure and functioning including decision making structure, program goals and compliance to goals, purpose of coalitions’ interventions, evaluation efforts, barriers, and community readiness.
Print it from the web.     
Download the document.

Key Informant Survey
20-minute telephone survey of  non-coalition community leaders in business, law enforcement, education, media, faith, social services, and government, to assess their perspective on issues of substance abuse in the community and whether or not they knew of the coalitions’ efforts.
Print it from the web.     
Download the document.

Site Visit Questionnaire
In-depth questionnaire designed to explore coalitions’ experiences in addressing the key elements. Topics covered include: investigation into how coalitions are established and funded, how they define their objectives and if they can be translated into outcome indicators, what process data is collected, and use of data to maintain public support, media interest and financial backing. The questions also evaluate how the coalition interacts with the community, develops a strategic plan, chooses programs, and identifies training needs.
Print it from the web.     
Download the document.

Resources

Join Together asks the following five questions to help communities think about comprehensive strategies that include prevention, treatment, public safety/law enforcement, jobs and economic development:  

1.         What harms from substance abuse are you trying to reduce in your community?

2.         How are you accomplishing this?

3.         Who else in your community is already involved?  What other groups could get involved?

4.         How can you work collaboratively with others?

5.         How will you know you are making a difference? 

Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) provide seven steps to form a community coalition:

6.         Define the problem and its impact on your community

7.         Identify key stakeholders

8.         Convene a meeting

9.         Share perspectives

10.     Discuss the current reality and the ideal

11.     Create a vision for your community

12.     Determine the next steps

Additional information and resources can be obtained from these websites:

Join Together
617-437-1500
jointogether.org

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
301-443-8956
samhsa.gov

Robert Wood Johnson Resource Center
substanceabuse.rwjf.org

Social Development Research Group
206-685-1997
depts.washington.edu/sdrg/

National Crime Prevention Council
202-466-6272
ncpc.org

Prevention Research Center
510-486-1111
prev.org

Tri-Ethnic Center
970-491-7902
colostate.edu/depts/psychology/tec

Center for Prevention Policy Research at the Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research
323-442-2600
usc.edu/hsc/medicine/preventive_med/ipr/

Drug Strategies
The mission of Drug Strategies is to promote more effective approaches to the nation’s drug problems and to support private and public initiatives that reduce the demand for drugs through prevention, education, treatment and law enforcement.

Officers:

Dr. Robert Millman
Weill Medical College
Cornell University
Chair

Philip B. Heymann
Harvard Law School
Vice Chair

Mathea Falco
President

Directors:

Robert Carswell
Senior Partner
Shearman & Sterling

Dr. Michael Crichton
Author

Marian Wright Edelman
President
Children’s Defense Fund

Neil Goldschmidt
Former Governor of Oregon

Dr. Margaret Hamburg
Vice President for Biological Program
NT Initiatives

Dr. Dean T. Jamison
UCLA

Robert S. McNamara
Former President
World Bank

Norval Morris
University of Chicago Law School

Alice Rivlin
Johnson Chair
Brookings Institution

Herbert Sturz
Former President
Vera Institute of Justice

Marni Vliet
President
Kansas Health Foundation

Hubert Williams
President
Police Foundation

Emeritus:

Dr. Avram Goldstein

Dr. Pedro José Greer

Howard E. Prunty

Charles Ruff (1939-2000)

Nancy Dickerson Whitehead  (1927-1997)

Advisors on Community Coalitions:

James E. Copple, M.Div, M.A.
Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
National Crime Prevention Council
Washington, DC

Carol Colburn,
Past Executive Director
Prevention Partners
Rochester, New York

Marilyn Wagner Culp,  M.A.
President
Miami Coalition for a Safe and Drug-Free Community
Miami, Florida

Ruth Edwards, Ph.D.
Project Director
Tri-Ethnic Center
Colorado State University, Fort Collins

Shakeh Kaftarian, Ph.D.
Public Health Advisor and former Acting Director for the Office of Knowledge Synthesis
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
Rockville, Maryland

Denise Hallfors, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor
School of Public Health
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

J. David Hawkins, Ph.D.
Endowed Professorship in Prevention of Behavioral Problems among Children and Youth and Director of the Social Development Research Group
School of Social Work
University of Washington, Seattle

Harold Holder, Ph.D.
Director and Senior Scientist
Prevention Research Center
Berkeley, California

Mary Ann Pentz, Ph.D.
Professor and Director of the Center for Prevention Policy Research
University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Cheryl Perry, Ph.D.
Professor
School of Public Health,
University of Minnesota at Twin Cities, Minneapolis

David Rosenbloom, Ph.D.
Director
Join Together
Boston, Massachusetts

Leonard Saxe, Ph.D.
Professor, Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare
Principal Investigator for Fighting Back
Brandeis University
Waltham, Massachusetts

Susan Thau,  M.C.R.P.
Public Policy Consultant
Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America
Alexandria, Virginia

Alberta Tinsley-Talabi
Councilwoman and Founder of the CABAAT Program
Detroit, Michigan

Abraham Wandersman, Ph.D.
Professor
University of South Carolina at Columbia

Drug Strategies is supported by grants from:

Abell Foundation

Bonderman Family Foundation

Carnegie Corporation of New York

Annie E. Casey Foundation

Edna McConnell Clark Foundation

Fannie Mae Foundation

William T. Grant Foundation

Miriam & Peter Haas Fund

Horizon Foundation

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

Kansas Health Foundation

Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Open Society Institute

Spencer Foundation