February 23, 2012
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BDAP: Garrison Gladfelter, Kimberly
Fitzpatrick, and Grace Kindt
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IRETA: Peter Luongo and Jess Williams
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Committee members
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Sept 2011 PA receives a one-year Strategic Prevention
Framework – State Prevention Enhancement (SPE) grant
requiring a Policy Consortium
Nov 2011 1st TAC Meeting
Dec 2011 Capacity Building/Infrastructure Enhancement Plan
submitted to CSAP
Aug 2012 5-year Strategic Prevention Plan due
The capacity building plan for Pennsylvania
includes specific steps in four areas:
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Data Collection: upgrade PBPS, create a dashboard for visualizing overlaid data sets
Coordination of Services: utilize data sets from many sources in PBPS, create
connections with primary care
Training and TA: create online training for credentialing the workforce
Evaluation: create milestones for 1) offering data to SCAs, 2) providing training on
data-driven decisions, 3) evaluating outcomes of decisions
The Pennsylvania SPE Capacity Building/Infrastructure Enhancement
Plan was approved by the State’s SAMHSA/CSAP State Project Officer
on January 31, 2012. He said:
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The first of the four “mini-plans” comprising the Capacity Building Plan addresses Data
Collection and Reporting. The State’s Data Collection and Reporting mini-plan presents a clear
roadmap for advancing data-based decision making, integrating data from diverse sources,
and building the State’s capacity to collect and use real time data.
The second mini-plan, which focuses on the Coordination of Services, clearly describes the
ongoing collaboration among multiple sectors and stakeholders, the key role played by the
Drug and Alcohol Coalition as the SPE Policy Consortium, and the State’s information
dissemination process.
The third mini-plan, which addresses Training and Technical Assistance, presents a well
thought-out plan for assessing training and TA needs in the State, curriculum development,
and data support.
The fourth mini-plan submitted by Pennsylvania covers Performance Management and
Evaluation. Although future drafts of this mini-plan will require some reframing as a plan for
enhancing the State’s current evaluation/performance management systems (as opposed to a
plan for evaluation of the SPE grant itself), it already contains many of the elements of an
effective plan for improving Pennsylvania’s evaluation and performance management
capabilities (e.g., the section of the mini-plan describing the process for improving
infrastructure).
TAC members may offer feedback on the
Capacity Building Plan:
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Comment on myIRETA
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Email Garrison & Pete
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In this or future TAC meetings
Below are data sets we have obtained or are in the process of obtaining.
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AOPC
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Death Certificate Data
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Data on drug and alcohol related crashes.
Data on sobriety checkpoints.
Data on Cops in Shops.
Number of DUIs out of the total number of people with a license for each county for 2005 to the most current year
available.
Number of licenses suspended due to DUI for each county for 2005 to the most current year available.
Number of drivers with an ignition interlock for each county for 2005 to the most current year available.
BDAP
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Dropout data by school building.
Data on truancy, suspensions, and expulsions.
Data on school safety incidents, includes infractions for possession/sale/distribution of ATOD and others (e.g. suicide,
bullying, assault, weapons, possession, etc.)
Student Assistance Program data
Department of Transportation
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Data on overdose deaths. One data set for all poisoning deaths, one data set for accidental poisoning deaths.
Department of Education
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Data on arrests/citations for drug and alcohol related offenses. By zip code and by magisterial district.
CIS drug of choice data
PLCB/LCE
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Data on the number of establishments with liquor licenses and the numbers/types of violations
Currently we have about 15 of our 20 data
sets.
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Pennsylvania Healthcare Cost Containment Council has another
possible source
Committee member data access/suggestions
The SPE requires signed letters of agreement from
representatives in the following categories. Committee
members from those categories are listed in parentheses:
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Lead agencies/authorities representing substance abuse (BDAP)
Education (Mike Kozup)
Justice (Kim Nelson)
Public Health (Carol Thornton)
Highway Safety (Tom Glass)
Law Enforcement (TBD)
Mental/Behavioral Health (Sherry Snyder)
Primary Health Care (Diane Siebert)
Committee members should have received
login information on 2/7/12.
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If you did not receive login information or you are not able to log in,
let us know.
Jess will work with committee members who cannot access the SPE
TAC group on myIRETA.
All of the
materials that
you need are on
myIRETA:
Documents
Meetings
Other Materials
Chat Room
According to the Capacity Building Plan, “IRETA
and BDAP will conduct an online survey of the
current prevention workforce regarding
specific course content needed/desired.”
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IRETA is currently drafting an online survey with approximately
10 questions
IRETA will disseminate the survey to 1) PBPS end users, 2)BDAP
Div of Prevention contact list, via the Commonwealth Prevention
Alliance, 3) others
TAC suggestions for dissemination?
According to the Capacity Building Plan, “IRETA
and BDAP will also survey existing online
prevention courses...and determine which ones
meet PCB requirements...[which] will be posted
to IRETA’s online education portal.”
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IRETA will post information about becoming a CPS or other
preventionist in PA on ireta.org
IRETA will first post an online self-paced ethics class, which is one
of the requirements for the CPS credential.
TAC suggestions about web content and online courses?
The next deliverable is a 5-year strategic prevention
plan for Pennsylvania:
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Corresponds with the Capacity Building/Infrastructure Enhancement
Plan: The two plans should correspond with each other. Specifically,
the gaps identified in the capacity building plan should be
addressed in the SPE Strategic Plan.
Organized into four mini plans: The capacity building plan is
organized into four categories, as will be the SPE strategic plan:
◦ Data Collection, Analysis and Reporting
◦ Coordination of Services
◦ TA and Training
◦ Performance/Evaluation
Seeking TAC input particularly in the following areas as we
begin to create the plan (see pages 13-14 of the RFA):
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Goals, objectives, and strategies for integrating a holistic approach to
substance abuse prevention into primary health care settings – Input on
how you see prevention fitting into primary care and what types of
prevention services could occur in a primary care setting.
Identify priority substance abuse prevention needs – Input on what the
highest priority needs are (need data to support the priorities identified).
Process and criteria for selecting evidence-based programs – Input on
what criteria can be used to determine that a program is evidence-based
(i.e. what would be the minimum scores a program on NREPP would have
to have to be added to BDAP’s Evidence-Based Program Listing).
Key prevention strategies that will be implemented over the next 5 years
– Input on what these key prevention strategies should be and why.
The 25th Annual National Prevention Network
Prevention Research Conference will be held
September 19, 20 and 21 in Pittsburgh. The ninth
annual Recovery Sports Link baseball game at PNC
Park will be on September 19, held in conjunction
with the conference. Dr. Michael Flaherty will be
one of the keynote speakers, addressing the role
of prevention in a ROSC.
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TAC can have input on conference topics
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Ideas?
Suggestions?
Our next meeting right now is scheduled for
the week after the Coalition meeting, during
the month of April.