SARG: Substance Abuse Response Guide
The Substance Abuse Response Guide (SARG) is Florida’s instruction manual to the SPF.
SARG provides a way to energize prevention efforts in your county.
SARG brings the most current prevention planning technology to your coalition’s "toolbox."
SARG allows all the collaborating organizations to think more deeply about strengths and needs in your county and to engage in a dialogue on how to address these issues.
SARG will help you not only find out which populations are contributing, or at risk, for the problems, but also help you identify the consequences of the substance use behavior – health effects as well as social and economic costs – so you can better educate your community about the real costs of the substance abuse problem in your community.
In addition to increasing your understanding of specific substance use problems in your county, completing the SARG assessment and capacity assessment will allow you to target local resources and develop plans to maximize the impact on problems related to substance abuse.
Although the SARG is designed to help your coalition learn and apply the SPF approach to one substance use problem, using the steps outlined in the SARG will building the capacity to identify and plan to strategically address other substance use issues affecting your county.
SPF: Strategic Prevention Framework
The Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF), developed by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), is a conceptual framework, or tool, that allows communities to develop the infrastructure needed for a community-based, public health approach leading to effective and sustainable reductions in alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) use and abuse.
- SPF Develops Partnerships
- SPF Guides the Acquisition of Needed Resources
- SPF Develops a Community Strategic Plan That Supports the Goals of Local Funding Agencies
- SPF Builds Sustainability
- Developing and supporting community capacity to operate and maintain a local prevention system will end up with the appropriate mix of programs, environmental strategies, and system policies to effectively create ...A Life in the Community for Everyone. CSAP, (2005).