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Building capacity and sustainable prevention innovations: A sustainability planning model
URL: http://resources.prev.org/documents/BuildingCapacityandSustainablePrevention.pdf
Evaluation and Program Planning. 2004 May;27(2):135–49. Presents a planning model for sustaining program infrastructure and interventions within organizational, community, and state systems. The model utilizes a five step process and addresses factors known to inhibit sustainability efforts. The investigators developed this model through a systematic review of the literature and the application of concepts derived from a series of "think tanks" made up of key substance abuse prevention professionals. A sustainability action strategy and tools to assist in implementation are also presented.
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Coalition sustainability: Long-term successes and lessons learned
URL: http://www.joe.org/joe/2002february/a2.html
Journal of Extension. 2002 Feb; 40(1). One of the USDA youth-at-risk projects was designed to develop local-level coalitions to address the needs of youth-at-risk in a rural midwestern state. This article describes the impact several of these coalitions are still making, 10 years after the onset of the initial project and 5 years after cessation of grant funding.
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The Community Toolbox: Developing a plan for financial sustainability
URL: http://ctb.ku.edu/tools/section_1297.htm
A section on funding and sustainability from The Community Toolbox.
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The Community Toolbox: Sustaining the work or initiative
URL: http://ctb.ku.edu/en/dothework/tools_tk_content_page_287.htm
Section on sustainability from the Community Tool Box manual.
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Continuity, success, and survival of community-based projects: The national youth at risk program sustainability study. - Report to the USDA
URL: http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/family/350-801/350-801.pdf
Addresses some of the deficits in program sustainability, specifically for at-risk audiences, and reflects the second phase in a multi-year study of community-based programs that are targeted to at risk youth and families.
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Evaluation's role in supporting initiative sustainability
URL: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/urbanpoverty/Urban%20Seminars/December2002/Weiss.pdf
This paper offers ideas for the roles that evaluation can play in helping foundations ensure that a discussion about sustainability is started early enough and maintained throughout an initiative.
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Feasibility tool for the implementation of prevention programs
URL: http://www.sprc.org/library/feasibility_tool.pdf
6 pages. Each page contains a chart to fill in to determine the feasibility of different elements of a prevention program, including: Resources, Target Populations, Organizational Climate, Community Climate, Evaluability, and Future Sustainability
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Leaving a legacy: Sustaining change in your community
URL: http://www.sprc.org/grantees/pdf/2006/legacywheel2.pdf
State/Tribal/Adolescents at Risk Suicide Prevention Grantee Technical Assistance Meeting. December 12–14, 2006, North Bethesda, MD. Explains the "Legacy Wheel" model of program planning, implementation and evaluation.
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Research to Practice webinar on sustainability
URL: http://www.sprc.org/traininginstitute/disc_series/disc_11.asp
This presentation discusses how to: develop a broad view of sustainability planning; understand strategies for sustainability; begin or enhance a sustainability plan; and engage partners in planning for sustainability. The Research to Practice webinar webpage contains: the authors' biographies; PowerPoint slides; and an audio file of the discussion.
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Suicide Prevention Toolkit
URL: http://www.mhawisconsin.org/content/introductiontoolkit.asp
This online resource collection contains a large number of materials useful for starting a youth suicide prevention program. They are listed under nine different topic sections, including making the case for developing a program, coalition building, youth screening programs and classroom curricula, gatekeeper training, crisis planning and postvention, evaluation tools, and information on obtaining funding.
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Sustaining community-based initiatives: Community and economic development
URL: http://www.wkkf.org/DesktopModules/WKF.00_DmaSupport/ViewDoc.aspx?fld=PDFFile&CID=287&ListID=28&ItemID=10658&LanguageID=0
Reviews the traditional missions of health care service organizations and looks toward organizational needs for the future. Encourages grassroots, community-based providers to assess and capitalize on their value to the economy.
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Sustaining grassroots community-based programs: A toolkit for community- and faith-based service providers
URL: http://download.ncadi.samhsa.gov/prevline/pdfs/SMA08-4340.pdf
This toolkit is designed to help grassroots community and faith based organizations develop program services. Includes six separate books: Introduction; Organizational Assessment and Readiness; Effective Marketing Strategies; Financial Management; Sustainability Strategies; and Results-Oriented Evaluation.
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