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Statewide Evaluation of the Illinois Substance Abuse Prevention SystemCPRD has an annual contract with the Illinois Department of Human Services Bureau of Community Based and Primary Prevention Substance Abuse Prevention Program (SAPP) to provide evaluation consultation and data management services that support the community based substance abuse prevention system across Illinois. The substance abuse prevention system is comprised of approximately 125 community based programs, 18 regional prevention offices and several statewide contractors that support the prevention system infrastructure (i.e. training, data collection, evaluation, etc). Through this contract, CPRD staff partner with state policy makers, regional technical assistance providers, and comprehensive community-based program staff to gather, analyze and use evaluation data to drive decisions. Illinois Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant EvaluationThe Illinois Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant is a federal grant awarded to Illinois Governor's Office in October 2005 by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. The goal of the project is to integrate a data-driven planning, implementation and evaluation process into state and community level substance abuse prevention initiatives. CPRD has been contracted to conduct evaluations of how well the state integrates the SPF into existing systems and to support evaluation data collection in local communities that receive "sub-recipient" grants from the state. Best Practices Institute (BPI)The Best Practices Institute (BPI) is a unique leadership program for government officials who are prevention policymakers. It is designed to create a dynamic learning community and resource mechanism for a selected cohort of administrators and coordinators of Illinois prevention programs and services. Through a series of structured and interactive seminars and dialogues, participants receive the most up-to-date prevention research available from national experts who are in the field and working with communities. Specifically, experts share current knowledge of the current prevention science, systems development and evaluation. The experience also includes time for officials to network, share information, analyze systems and plan for continuous improvement in their respective agencies. During the BPI leadership program, participants will have access to affiliate prevention scientists and CPRD staff to assist with disseminating information and ideas back to their agencies. Expert technical assistance is also available to help agencies identify, implement and assess the impact of new ideas and policies on systems and prevention programming. The overarching goal of the Best Practices Institute is to "develop authoritative leadership in prevention through expert knowledge, best practices and systems' thinking, and to create new visions and opportunities for continuous improvement and appropriate levels of accountability". Illinois Children and Youth Coordinated Data SystemThe Illinois Children & Youth Coordinated Data System is an effort to begin placing information about children, youth, and their families into a common data system for state and community use. The overarching goal for the system is to create a user-friendly web database and GIS system that provides up-to-date data for all Illinois communities to use for planning, monitoring, and tracking outcomes for children and youth. State and local government and community agencies will also be able to identify essential outcomes and indicators for their programs and initiatives. Data collected over time could be used, with care, to show how well community-wide interventions work. Engaging Youth for Positive Change (EYPC)Engaging Youth for Positive Change teaches youth the process of community-level advocacy. This prevention program is designed to be implemented with a group of ten to fifteen middle- or high-school youth in an after-school setting. EYPC can be implemented with an existing youth or community organization, either alongside other organization activities, as a special project, or with a youth organization formed specifically to address a particular community issue. During the program, youth learn about themselves and their community. An adult facilitator helps in this learning process and in building the youths’ self-confidence. Engaging Youth for Positive Change is a curriculum arranged in five modules. Each module contains a series of activities, including discussions, guest speakers, and hands-on advocacy. During the curriculum, youth interact with local officials, community leaders, and community organizers, collect unbiased data about the prevention policy, and publicly present their findings, leading discussion and debate about the prevention policy. The modular format allows for varied activity selection, so the curriculum can be adjusted to match available meeting time and space. Click here for a PDF with more details on Engaging Youth for Positive Change. Click here for a PDF with samples from all 5 modules of the EYPC curriculum. Juvenile Monitoring Information System (JMIS)The Juvenile Monitoring Information System - JMIS - is a web-based management information system that allows all Illinois Juvenile Detention Centers to electronically submit data (either live or through uploading), search for detained youth and generate numerous reports about these youth so the information can be received quickly by the State. JMIS assists all of the Juvenile Detention Centers, the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission (IJJC), The Department of Human Services (DHS), and the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts (AOIC) in organizing, documenting and generating reports on the youth entering any Illinois juvenile detention facility. The JMIS system allows for submission of data from the juvenile detention centers in a way to allow counties and facilities to review their own data, view standardized reports, and to see if the juvenile they are holding has been held in the state anywhere before. Safe To Live (STLV) EvaluationThe Safe to Live (STLV) Evaluation is designed to understand how three communities have used a collaborative model for preventing and reducing violence. In one community, the focus of the coalition is to integrate substance abuse and violence prevention in a comprehensive way. The role of CPRD is to work with the state policy makers and supporting contractors to understand what factors influence collaboration progress and what factors detract from collaboration progress. In addition, we serve as the evaluation liaison between the STLV community sites and their funding agent (Illinois Violence Prevention Authority). CPRD will assist community sites to evaluate the outcomes they achieve and programs they deliver based on strategic plans each community has created. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention - Title V Grant Evaluation
The Title V grant program is awarded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention through the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission (IJJC). IJJC funded over twenty community sites to organize and implement programs that prevent and reduce juvenile delinquency behavior. CPRD worked with community sites to gather, process and analyze outcome data to inform local program decisions and state policy decisions about the administration of the Title V program. As a final product, CPRD conducted interviews with multiple stakeholders to compile "lessons learned" as a result of the Illinois Title V experience.
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