Prior to SIG, several substance abuse prevention activities were provided in
the Lake Washington School District area. Partnerships between prevention
providers and organizations were very strong before SIG, with collaborative
efforts such as the Lake Washington School District Drug and Alcohol Council
already in place. The district was familiar with the use of data for planning
and the evaluation of program outcomes and with science-based programs.
Challenges experienced by local SIG staff included confusion regarding the
Everest Database program, a complicated and intimidating application process,
and unclear evaluation requirements.
Progress toward SIG Community Level Objectives Objective 1: To establish partnerships...to collaborate at the local
level to prevent alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and other drug use, misuse, and
abuse by youth.
Before receiving SIG funding, the community represented by the Eastside
Central Community SIG project already had substantial experience with creating
prevention partnerships. Prevention partnerships were extensive in their scope
and their participation, involving interested participants from the schools,
parents, youth, neighboring agencies, the community, and local governments. One
benefit of SIG has been to formalize communication on prevention between schools
and program providers through the creation of advisory boards that focus
primarily on substance abuse prevention. These boards have increased
collaboration among prevention agencies.
Objective 2: To use a risk and protective factor framework to develop a
community prevention action plan...
The Eastside Central Community was already educated in the risk and
protective framework before participating in SIG trainings. According to
respondents, SIG helped to reinforce this knowledge. Also in use by local
prevention PROFESSIONALs is the Developmental Assets prevention framework.
Objective 3: To participate in joint community risk and protective factor
and resource assessment...
Lake Washington School District has traditionally participated in the
collection and examination of substance abuse-related prevention data, but not
always with multiple prevention partners.
Objective 4: To select and implement effective prevention actions...
The SIG process encouraged the choice of programs shown through published
research to be effective in different locales and with multiple populations.
These are known as research-based programs. Some research-based programs have
been selected as best practices by the federal Center for Substance Abuse
Prevention. SIG provided funding for two best practices in the Eastside Central
Community project: SUCCESS Mentoring and Family Connections. The concept of
research-based programs was not new to the area with SIG.
Objective 5: To use common reporting tools...
Reporting tools used in common among prevention partners in the Lake
Washington School District include the Washington State Survey of Adolescent
Health Behavior and the Developmental Asset Survey at the community level. At
the program level, the Everest program outcome monitoring database and other
program-specific methods are used. Because they are funded through many sources,
prevention providers must observe multiple evaluation and reporting
requirements. Although SIG is not responsible for introducing the concepts of
data assessment and outcome evaluation, respondents believe that SIG helped to
reinforce these methods.
Conclusion
The Lake Washington School District and its prevention partners were familiar
with and used most of the prevention concepts promoted through the SIG community
level objectives that were established by the Governor's Substance Abuse
Advisory Committee. SIG has helped to promote and formalize the practice of
those concepts. During the third and last year of SIG community funding, the
Eastside Central Community intends to continue to move toward institutionalizing
some of the changes they have achieved in the system of prevention planning,
funding, implementation, and monitoring they developed through SIG.
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Community Report
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on the PDF symbol to the left to download the brief description
to the achievements and challenges experienced in implementing
science based prevention in this community: "Lake
Washington School District, King County Executive Summary
of Community-Level Process Evaluation Reports" Publication Date: 04/2002. Report Number: 4.43-6a (132 KB)
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to the left to download a description of the prevention
activities and the main community partners: "Community
Project Description for Kings County - Lake Washington School
District." Publication Date: 04/2002. Report Number: 4.43-6b (147 KB)
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on the PDF symbol to the left to download the components
of the community plan: "Project Action Plan
for King County - Lake Washington School District." Publication Date: 04/2002. Report Number: 4.43-6c (342 KB)
Click on the PDF symbol
to the left to download the report of the first year activities:
"Lake Washington School District, King County Washington
State Incentive Grant 1st year Community - Level Evaluation
1999-2000." Publication Date: 11/2000. Report Number: 4.43-6d (219 KB)
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on the PDF symbol to the left to download the report of
the second year activities: "Lake
Washington School District, King County Washington
State Incentive Grant 2nd Year Community - Level Evaluation
2000-2001." Publication Date: 04/2002. Report Number: 4.43-6e (253 KB)
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to the left to download data on changes in risk and protection
factors for prevention program participants: "Program
Outcomes" Publication Date: 04/2002. Report Number: 4.43-6f (80 KB)
Click on the PDF symbol to the left to download data on
changes in trends of risk and protection for the entire
community: "Community Outcomes Report - King County
- Lake Washington School District" Publication Date: 04/2002. Report Number: 4.43-6g (76 KB)
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