Overview

New Mexico was one of the first five states to receive grants from the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) to incorporate the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) model into their prevention programming. The SPF model includes 5 steps: 1) Needs Assessment and Prioritizing, 2) Capacity Building, 3) Strategic Planning, 4) Implementation of Environmental Prevention Strategies, and 5) Evaluation. Inherent in the SPF process is that it uses a public health approach, is data driven, addresses problematic substance abuse outcomes and behaviors, uses strategies that are scientifically defensible, and is community/population based. 

The Strategic Prevention Framework Model

As a result of receiving the SPF-related grant in 2005, a State Epidemiological Workgroup (SEW) was formed to examine state-wide indicators of substance-related outcome and consequences and determine patterns of consumption leading to those outcomes. Using this data driven process, the SEW prioritized alcohol-related motor vehicle (ARMVC) crashes and fatalities (ARMVF) among youth as the priority outcome, and chose to focus on underage and young adult drinking and binge drinking consumption patterns across the state. The current substance abuse prevention plan is modeled after SPF. As an extension of SPF, community based process (CBP) is utilized and the priority outcomes are set as underage binge drinking, underage binge drinking and driving, adult binge drinking, and adult binge drinking and driving. The figure below presents the logic model for the NM SPF using reduction of alcohol-related youth traffic fatalities as example.