Public Health

CCHS will provide consultation and training to build the capacity of the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus and community to implement effective early intervention strategies to reduce high-risk alcohol use by students. The purpose of project activities is to build a widening “net”—to design and implement a campus wide infrastructure, linked with community services—to increase the opportunities to identify, screen, and refer students in need of an intervention.

NECAPT, part of The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), hosted a regional workshop regarding Town Hall Meetings on Underage Drinking on January 18, 2006. Participants in the January 18th workshop gained skills in how to run town hall meetings and how to use AD council public service announcements. This workshop prepared states for the Town Hall Meetings on Underage Drinking held in March 2006.

This project will provide a program evaluation of a multi-organizational collaborative effort to gather data, seek feedback, and explore best practices to improve access to care and to strengthen the quality and integration of care for adolescents and young adults who need mental health care and/or substance abuse services.

In the 1990s, HHD, together with World Health Organization (WHO), developed the Rapid Assessment and Action Planning Process (RAAPP) for School Health, an approach and package of tools—research instruments, training strategies, data analysis, and action planning techniques—to assess and strengthen a country’s capacity to deliver school health programs. Since 1999, RAAPP has been used in Indonesia, Nigeria, and, most recently, in India.

The purpose of this project is to identify and document implementation issues experienced by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration community and school grantees who received support to implement and evaluate youth violence prevention efforts.