This resource outlines key strategies for developing a skilled prevention workforce, emphasizing the importance of clear competencies, structured training pathways, supportive workplace environments, and ongoing professional development to equip practitioners with the knowledge and skills needed to implement evidence-based prevention effectively. It describes practical actions—such as defining role-specific competencies, using competency-based training and coaching, fostering cross-sector collaboration, and building organizational systems that support retention and career advancement—to strengthen workforce capacity and sustainability in prevention practice.
Category: Coalitions, Community Engagement & Systems Building
Coalition Check-Up Resource 1 – Coalition Check-Up Guidebook
Coalitions play a crucial role in fostering robust community development. Four tools were developed using the Coalition Check-Up to support the well-being of your coalition and its activities to ensure success! Coalition Check-Up Resource 1 – Coalition Check-Up Guidebook: Need some ideas of how to go about improving something about your coalition or its activities? See this comprehensive resource containing evidence-informed strategies!
Coalition Check-Up Resource 2 – Action Planning Worksheets
Coalitions play a crucial role in fostering robust community development. Four tools were developed using the Coalition Check-Up to support the well-being of your coalition and its activities to ensure success! Coalition Check-Up Resource 2 – Action Planning Worksheets: Need a worksheet to help you make decisions about next steps and itemize them? Then, this is your resource!
Coalition Check-Up Resource 3 – Action Planning for a Strength Worksheets
Coalitions play a crucial role in fostering robust community development. Four tools were developed using the Coalition Check-Up to support the well-being of your coalition and its activities to ensure success! Coalition Check-Up Resource 3 – Action Planning for a Strength Worksheets: Is something about your coalition going really well? Do you wonder how to give attention to that success and sustain the focus or practice going forward? Then, this is your resource!
Coalition Check-Up Resource 4 – Action Planning Progress Tool
Coalitions play a crucial role in fostering robust community development. Four tools were developed using the Coalition Check-Up to support the well-being of your coalition and its activities to ensure success! Coalition Check-Up Resource 4 – Action Planning Progress Tool: Need a tool to help you track implementation progress of your action plan? And find solutions to barriers you encounter along the way? Then, this is your resource!
Evidence2Success® – A Series: Strategies for Community Impact on Youth Well-Being
By visiting this website, you will have access to a five-part Guiding Collective Change series that looks at over a decade of process evaluation data from communities working collectively to impact the well-being of local youth using tools and strategies from Evidence2Success. The series outlines the benefits and lessons learned about what worked in six communities and ways to implement them in your community.
Evidence2Success® Action Guide 1: Local Data and Decision Making with Youth Surveys
This action guide provides vital guidance for anyone creating or investing in programs for youth.
Evidence2Success® Action Guide 2: Strategic Finance Planning with Communities.
This action guide introduces the Evidence2Success strategic financing strategies, including fundmapping, used in a community- and systems-driven effort to improve youth and family well-being.
Sustainability Planning Checklist
This checklist is designed to assist program implementers during planning for sustainability. It includes categories such as: budget planning, cost efficiency, revenue streams, data, stakeholder engagement, staff retention, and program participation. This tool can help providers and coalitions think through the various facets of sustainability and develop a plan with practical action steps for tackling sustainability barriers.