Prevention with Purpose: A strategic Planning Guide for Preventing Drug Misuse Among College Students

Explores the history of drug misuse from the 1960s until today, and 
how changes in culture, federal and state laws and enforcement, and societal norms affect the prevention landscape on college campuses today; provides an overview of the SPF, with a focus on cultural competence and cultural humility, two principles that underlie successful prevention work; dives into the SPF’s first step, teaching how to assess the scope of drug use on your campus; focuses on how to build capacity for a drug misuse prevention program; centers on how to plan a drug misuse prevention program; specifies how to implement a drug misuse prevention program; provides tools to evaluate a prevention program to determine whether it was implemented as planned and whether it is making a difference in anticipated outcomes;  focuses on strategies for success during times of disruption.