NYU Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration Questions

125-150 for each peer responses

Peer #1 Lynette (RESPONSE DUE IN 24 HOURS)

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When programs are looking for efficient ways to come up with solutions to community issues, they must have a plan in place. This often begins with an understanding of what the mental health crisis is. From that point, the community can use the following steps listed from the SAMHSA website (2019).

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The SPF includes these five steps:

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• Assessment: Identify local prevention needs based on data (e. g., What is the problem?)
• Capacity: Build local resources and readiness to address prevention needs (e. g., What do you have to work with?)
• Planning: Find out what works to address prevention needs and how to do it well (e. g., What should you do and how should you do it?)
• Implementation: Deliver evidence-based programs and practices as intended (e. g., How can you put your plan into action?)
• Evaluation: Examine the process and outcomes of programs and practices (e. g., Is your plan succeeding?)

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These steps allow the people in the community to have resources ready in order to proceed with ways to reach their prevention goals. By assessing the need and building the local resources, the availability of prevention efforts is easier to begin. Planning ahead and working on how to address the issue at-hand may vary due to the specific need. This will need to be considered before moving on to the implementation of the program. Evaluations of the program should be conducted throughout the process in order to maintain high quality outcomes.

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Retrieved:

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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). (2019). A guide to SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework. Retrieved from: https://www.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/20190620-samhsa-strategic-prevention-framework-guide.pdf.

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Peer #2 Laura (RESPONSE DUE IN 36 HOURS)

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There are numerous benefits to using the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) that the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) developed. Community-based prevention programs need several components in order to be successful within complex environmental frameworks. Accordingly, in order to understand the problems within each community, and develop solutions, programs, and best-practices that could benefit multifaceted, behavioral health issues, SAMHSA developed a five step program to guide prevention planners (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration [SAMHSA], 2019). These five steps make up the SPF and help prevention planners understand the behavioral health issues facing a particular community, and develop a comprehensive approach towards a solution. The five steps of the SPF program are assessment, capacity, planning, implementation, and evaluation (SAMHSA, 2019). These steps identify needs from available data, build resources, readiness, and teams to help address the prevention program needed, deliver evidence-based programs and practices, and assess the process and outcomes of the prevention program developed (SAMHSA, 2019). This program can be a beneficial guide to mental health providers for several reasons. One reason is because it give the provider a valuable, data-driven tool to understanding the substance misuse problems in the community, and how it relates to the harmful behavior and adverse mental health issues that are present. Likewise, it can help a mental health provider assess what has been done, and what has been beneficial to build on with additional, advanced programs. Additionally, it can help providers work towards enhancing protective factors for the affected individuals to decrease the risk, magnitude, severity, and trends of the mental health issues in the community. Finally, it can help you find a plethora of influential members in the community who are ready to help (SAMHSA, 2019).

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Reference:

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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). (2019). A guide to SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework. https://www.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/20190620-samhsa-strategic-prevention-framework-guide.pdf

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Peer #3 Katheryn (RESPONSE DUE IN 48 HOURS)

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The benefits of using the SPF framework is the detail in how it is designed; it is a five-step, data-driven process used to: assess needs:

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(Step 1) build capacity

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(Step 2) engage in a strategic planning process

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(Step 3) implement a comprehensive, evidence[1]based prevention approach

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(Step 4) evaluate implementation and related outcomes

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(Step 5) The guiding principles of cultural competence and sustainability are included in each of the five steps.

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The use of the SPF process is critical to ensuring that states/tribes and their communities work together to use data-driven decision-making processes to develop effective prevention strategies and sustainable prevention infrastructures (SAMHSA.gov).

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Additionally, a plan on how funding will be used to ensure that all communities funded will receive continuous support; technical assistance, and training for the entirety of the project. It also sets the expectations that key staff will be substantially involved in the development and execution of the program in such a way that their contributions can be measured (SAMSHA, gov).

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SAMHSA, 2016. Strategic Prevention Framework – Partnerships for Success. Strategic Prevention Framework – Partnerships for Success | SAMHSA

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