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Lessons Learned Working With Drug‐Free Community Coalitions and Collaboratives
Author(s) -
Price Ann Webb
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
new directions for evaluation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.374
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1534-875X
pISSN - 1097-6736
DOI - 10.1002/ev.20393
Subject(s) - substance abuse , public relations , substance abuse prevention , program evaluation , political science , public administration , psychology , psychiatry
Since 1997, the United States Congress, through the Drug‐Free Communities (DFC) Support Program, has provided funding for community coalitions to prevent youth substance abuse. This chapter describes lessons learned from working with community drug‐free coalitions and suggests guidelines and resources to assist the evaluator working with DFC‐funded community coalitions.