Prevention – Wyoming Survey & Analysis Center

Tualatin Together Partnerships for Success Evaluation

Emily A. Grant — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 17:20:53 +0000

This five-year project supports the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) process for coalitions in Tigard and Tualatin. The project focuses on enhancing community capacity, evaluating outcomes, and ensuring sustainable prevention strategies.
Key tasks include gathering and summarizing data, customizing tools for the SPF process, and tracking both process and outcome data to assess program success. Data collection includes stakeholder meetings, participant numbers, 30-day use surveys, and federally required evaluation measures. A comprehensive capacity assessment of coalitions will be conducted at key intervals.
Annual reports will be produced to detail progress, outcomes, and coalition capacity, with a final evaluation report at the project’s end. Regular presentations to coalitions and tailored training and technical assistance will help strengthen evaluation practices, sustain effective policies, and improve coalition performance.
This comprehensive approach ensures ongoing evaluation, capacity building, and the development of evidence-based prevention strategies in these communities.

Arkansas 2024 State Opioid Response Grant

Rodney Wambeam — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 21:27:27 +0000

WYSAC is the evaluator of the 2024 State Opioid Response (SOR) program for the state of Arkansas. This 3-year program, sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), supports prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery services for opioid and other substance use disorders. Arkansas will seek to develop comprehensive strategies to reduce overdose deaths and improve care for opioid and stimulant misuse across the state.

Wyoming State Opioid Response Grant Evaluation and Quality Improvement Analysis

Matthew Wagner — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 21:25:46 +0000

WYSAC has been chosen to assess the implementation and outcomes of the 2024 State Opioid Response (SOR) Grant for the State of Wyoming. Included in this evaluation is a comprehensive analysis of past data related to opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment and prevention programs.

Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention Toolkit

Sandra Biller — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 21:33:05 +0000

The Wyoming Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention Toolkit is a collaborative effort between the Wyoming Department of Health and the Wyoming Survey & Analysis Center at the University of Wyoming (WYSAC). Funded through the Wyoming Grant to Prevent Prescription Drug/Opioid Overdose-Related Deaths (PDO), this project is intended to make information about prescription drug abuse and related prevention strategies more accessible.

This website aims to provide resources for prevention workers and other stakeholders throughout the lifecycles of prevention efforts. It is modeled after the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF), a five-step, cyclical process to help stakeholders understand and address issues of substance abuse and addiction in their communities. The SPF model includes the following components:

Assessment – Using current data to understand local needs
Capacity – Building partnerships and resources to have capacity to address prevention needs
Planning – Understanding best practices related to these needs and how to effectively implement them
Implementation – Delivering the best practices or programs selected in the previous step
Evaluation – Taking a look at how practices were implemented and whether they led to the intended outcome

Regardless of what step a community is at in its efforts to prevent prescription drug abuse, this website will provide the information and resources they need to get started, or to enhance work that’s already being done.

Evaluation of State Efforts to Help Adults Prevent and Manage Diabetes, Heart Disease, and Stroke

Laran H. Despain — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 23:39:48 +0000

Since 2018, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) grant Improving the Health of Americans through Prevention and Management of Diabetes and Heart Disease and Stroke (CDC-DP18-1815) has funded state efforts to help adults prevent and manage diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. The CDC has required states conduct an evaluation of this work. WYSAC has contracts to do this evaluation for three states: North Dakota, Wyoming, and New Mexico.

Under contract with each state, WYSAC is evaluating this CDC-funded work by creating annual evaluation plans, forming evaluation indicators for process and outcome measures, and reporting progress on the evaluation indicators. Over the course of the evaluation, WYSAC will assess the approach, efficiency, effectiveness, sustainability, and impact of each state’s efforts.

The Division of Health Promotion at the North Dakota Department of Health been working with health care providers and other less traditional partners to help North Dakota residents prevent and manage type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. WYSAC will be helping the Division examine the effectiveness of working with new partners in this work.

WYSAC will work with North Dakota and the Chronic Disease Prevention Program at the Wyoming Department of Health to evaluate their work in the context of working in very rural states with severe winter weather, a population dispersed across large areas with few towns, and limited infrastructure for telehealth services. Although the work is not a direct continuation, WYSAC’s work in Wyoming is related to the previous evaluation of Wyoming’s CDC-funded State Public Health Actions to Prevent and Control Diabetes, Heart Disease, Obesity and Associated Risk Factors and Promote School Health.

WYSAC does similar work for the New Mexico Department of Health, described here.

Evaluation of New Mexico’s State Public Health Actions To Prevent And Control Diabetes, Heart Disease, Obesity

Laura Feldman — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 20:34:26 +0000

Between 2014 and 2018, WYSAC evaluated the federal grant, State Public Health Actions to Prevent and Control Diabetes, Heart Disease, Obesity and Associated Risk Factors and Promote School Health (1305) for the New Mexico Department of Health. WYSAC is continuing this partnership by evaluating New Mexico’s work on the CDC grant Improving the Health of Americans through Prevention and Management of Diabetes and Heart Disease and Stroke (1815).

WYSAC provides overarching guidance and technical expertise to NMDoH in developing, implementing, and evaluating the 1305 and 1815 projects. Specifically, WYSAC develops logic models and evaluation plans, facilitates the use of data to improve programming, documents program implementation and successes, and facilitates sustainability planning. This project uses both quantitative and qualitative data to guide and measure project progress and outcomes.

Wyoming Tobacco Prevention and Control Program Evaluation

Tiffany Comer Cook — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 21:26:24 +0000

WYSAC’s evaluation of the Wyoming Tobacco Prevention and Control Program (TPCP) assesses the effectiveness of the program and provides information for continuous program improvement. WYSAC provides county-level data to help local coalitions understand community needs related to TPCP issues, and to track programmatic outcomes. WYSAC also provides state-level data so the Wyoming Department of Health can make data-driven decisions about state-level TPCP efforts.

The website for the evaluation, including an online survey data tool, is https://wysac.uwyo.edu/wyomingtobacco/

Prevention Works! Reducing Underage Drinking in Wyoming

Rodney Wambeam — Fri, 11 May 2018 19:49:41 +0000

This documentary details the history of substance abuse prevention in Wyoming and how it led to a 40% decrease in underage drinking. It includes interviews with WYSAC as well as important state and local stakeholders in the prevention system.

It documents data showing the change in underage drinking, it; but, more importantly, it tells the story of how local coalitions worked with State and Federal funding to impact the problem. It provides context to more than 15 year of work by prevention professionals and local coalitions to keep Wyoming at the cutting edge of prevention.

Telling the Story of Opioid Use in Wyoming Report

Rodney Wambeam — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 23:13:11 +0000

The purpose of this report is to document opioid-related data sources and indicators that currently exist with the aim of telling the story of prescription opioid use in the state of Wyoming. Evaluators at the Wyoming Survey & Analysis Center (WYSAC) have presented the results of the data inventory throughout this report organized by opioid-related indicators, with key findings and general notes about the data source listed.

Additionally, descriptive information about and external links to each data source are catalogued in the appendix. National data are presented here, as well as state and some local level data.

When possible, the state data are compared to the national data. WYSAC at the University of Wyoming completed this project as part of a contractual agreement with the Wyoming Department of Health, Public Health Division (WDH-PHD).

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The Value of Prevention: Potential Cost Savings from Delaying Youth Alcohol Use in Wyoming

Rodney Wambeam — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 18:24:02 +0000

In 2017, economists at WYSAC completed a study of the value of prevention in Wyoming. This research began in 2012 when WYSAC was able to estimate the societal cost of alcohol in Wyoming at $843 million in 2010. Researchers also knew than since the prevention of underage drinking began in 2001, Wyoming communities have contributed to a 40% decrease in past month alcohol use by teenagers.

Putting these together and using peer reviewed literature on delaying the onset of alcohol use, WYSAC estimates that, in 2014 alone, local efforts prevented 389 students from developing alcohol use disorders. This saves Wyoming $122 million over the lives of those individuals.

To read the full report go to https://wysac.uwyo.edu/wysac/reports/View/5556.

Wyoming Synar Inspections

Laran H. Despain — Fri, 31 Mar 2017 13:06:41 +0000

As part of Wyoming’s efforts to keep minors from buying tobacco products, the Department of Health contracts with the Wyoming Survey & Analysis Center at the University of Wyoming to conduct what is known as the Synar inspections. In 1992, the United States Congress enacted the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration Reorganization Act, which includes an amendment (section 1926) aimed at decreasing youth access to tobacco. This Synar Amendment requires states to adopt and enforce state laws prohibiting the sale of tobacco to youth under the age of 18. To be in compliance, states must also conduct annual, random, and unannounced inspections to ensure compliance with the state law and develop a strategy for achieving a retailer violation rate (RVR) of less than 20.0%. Since 2003, the Wyoming Department of Health, Public Health Division, has contracted with the Wyoming Survey & Analysis Center (WYSAC) at the University of Wyoming to conduct Wyoming’s annual Synar Inspection Study to assess tobacco retailers’ compliance with the law.

Wyoming Tobacco Prevention & Control Evaluation Website

Tiffany Comer Cook — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 22:03:22 +0000

The Wyoming Tobacco Prevention & Control Evaluation website provides information to coalitions and communities in the areas of tobacco use and prevalence. With interactive data tools, county-level evaluation and analysis, Wyoming TPCP is a resource for state and local assessment and evaluation for programs and help make data-driven decisions in the area of tobacco prevention.

Wyoming TPCP was created using WordPress for content management and utilizes open-source technologies such as High Charts for data interactivity.

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2016 Wyoming KIDS COUNT Data Book & Website

Laurel Wimbish — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 18:01:46 +0000

The 2016 Wyoming KIDS COUNT book and accompanying website provide information about the health and well-being of children and families in Wyoming. These publications provide critical county-level data for nearly 30 indicators, on such topics as economics, health care, single-parent families, and child care.

Produced in partnership with the Wyoming Community Foundation, and with funding from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the 2016 Wyoming KIDS COUNT project provide insight to the status of Wyoming’s children and families, and serve as a tool for those working to make positive change.

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North Dakota Central Valley Youth Survey Resource Center

Jessica Schillinger — Fri, 01 May 2015 21:04:51 +0000

The Central Valley Youth Survey website is an online resource center for partners of the North Dakota Central Valley Youth Survey. CVYS is a local effort to better understand youth alcohol and drug use in Stutsman and Logan Counties in North Dakota.

The survey monitors the percent of students that have used or are currently using alcohol, and/or other drugs. It also measures a wide variety of attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions related to alcohol and other drugs.

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Wyoming Prevention Needs Assessment Survey

Robert Leduc — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 20:06:28 +0000

The Wyoming Prevention Needs Assessment Survey allows visitors to explore survey data and interactively compare trend results, demographics and indicators. Users can search data, create charts and export customized datasets.

The PNA is a survey of Wyoming middle and high school students focusing on attitudes, beliefs and perceptions about alcohol, tobacco and drug use. Data is used by schools, districts, communities and the state of Wyoming to evaluate prevention strategies and policies.

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