Prevention
Prevention is...an active process of creating conditions and personal attributes that promote the well-being of people--Lofquist, 1983
There are several frameworks and theoretical models for prevention planning that reflect current technology and best practices. A comprehensive and effective approach has in it a vision, a set of guiding principles, and a combination of proven and promising strategises that target individuals, familes, peers, schools, and community environment.
Presently, prevention is about a combination of evidence-based practices, strategies, and programming that are directed by Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) planning process. The SPF is a process for doing prevention. SPF gives us a new agreement of understanding on how we operate in prevention.
CRCA is involved in community environmental strategies.
A child is walking along the beach with friends and sees a thousand starfish washed upon the shore. The child stops every so often and throws a starfish back into the ocean.
One of her friends comments, “Why bother, there are so many of them, you can’t save them all, do you really think you are making a difference.”
The child responds, Well, it made a difference to the one I just threw back”
Let’s keep AOD prevention where it is needed, in our communities with our children and families.
