TOOLS

Prevention Institute develops tools to support the crafting, implementation, and evaluation of comprehensive prevention initiatives and effective coalitions. Our tools have been used across the country and internationally.

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Prevention Institute Tools:

	Prevention Is Primary: Strategies for Community Well Being Building on the knowledge of diverse disciplines and prevention leaders, this academic text frames prevention as an essential component of health and provides a conceptual and practical guide to the application of prevention methodologies across a wide range of contemporary health and social problems.
	Spectrum of Prevention A six-level framework that expands prevention efforts beyond education models by promoting a multifaceted range of activities for a more comprehensive and effective understanding of prevention.
	Developing Effective Coalitions: An Eight Step Guide A guideline for the process of coalition building to help advocates and practitioners on issues ranging from the appropriateness of a coalition, to membership selection and conducting ongoing evaluations.
	Collaboration Math: Enhancing the Effectiveness of Multidisciplinary Collaboration A tool intended to help organizations from diverse disciplines work together by enabling them to better understand each other’s perspectives and to identify both strengths and gaps in their partnership.
	The Tension of Turf: Making it Work for the Coalition A paper discussing the common type of turf struggles, reasons they occur, and recommendations for limiting the negative aspects of turf.  A supplement to Eight Steps to Effective Coalition Building.
	Evolution to Effective Prevention Diagnostic Scale A diagnostic scale assessing the development of prevention efforts to help organizations, communities, and collaboratives increase the comprehension and effectiveness of their work.
	Environmental Nutrition and Activity Community Tool (ENACT) A concrete menu of strategies designed to help communities improve nutrition and activity environments on a local level.
	ENACT Local Policy Database An online resource of local policies that can improve opportunities for healthy eating and physical activity.
	THRIVE: Tool for Health and Resilience In Vulnerable Environments A tool designed to help you understand and prioritize the factors within your own community that can help improve health and safety.

Web Resources Featuring Prevention Institute Tools:

Check out how other web-based resource systems feature Prevention Institute tools to promote comprehensive prevention initiatives and effective coalition building.  We encourage you to take advantage of our tools and include them as links from your organization's website too!  Contact us and let us know how you've featured PI's tools.

The Community Tool Box:

Providing over 6,000 pages of practical skill-building information on over 250 different topics, the Tool Box is a resource to promote community health and development by connecting people, ideas, and resources, including several Prevention Institute tools.

Health Promotion 2020 Web Tour: Ontario, Canada
Building the capacity of organizations and communities to improve our population's health, Health Promotion 2020 is the culmination of a series of dialogues between a team representing the Ontario Health Promotion Resource System and other capacity building organizations in the United States. This web-based resource identifys promising practices for health promotion and highlights multiple Prevention Institute tools.

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