Evaluation of the Substance Abuse Block Grant (SABG) Prevention Efforts led by DSCYF
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- Laura Rapp, Principal Investigator
- Dana Holz, Evaluator
- Darryl Chambers, Evaluator
- Initiated: 2017; Funding Source: SAMHSA through Delaware’s Department
of Services for Children, Youth and their Families
The Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant
(SABG) program provides funds to all 50 states, the District of Columbia,
Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, 6 Pacific jurisdictions, and 1 tribal
entity to prevent and treat substance abuse. The SABG program’s objective is to
help plan, implement, and evaluate activities that prevent and treat substance
abuse.
In Delaware, the Department of Services for Children, Youth
and their Families fund community providers to implement substance use
prevention efforts. The major goals of this project are 1) to prevent the onset
and reduce the progression of substance use and abuse for youth and their
families through the reduction of risk factors and increasing identified
protective factors; 2) provide primary prevention activities to prevent
substance use and abuse through a comprehensive use of evidence-based
strategies including education, information dissemination, environmental,
community-based, alternative activities; and 3) build prevention capacity and
infrastructure and the community level.
The role of the SABG Evaluation team is to evaluate the
prevention efforts at the State and Community level, which include both outcome
and process evaluation. Additionally,
the team provides technical assistance to the Community Providers and the State
on topics such as data collection, survey design, and logic model
building. The Evaluation Team also provides
ongoing feedback to the Management Team on overall progress toward project
milestones as well as making recommendations to adjust identified indicators
and interventions at the community level.
