REACH of Louisville, Inc.

Kentucky's Strategic Prevention Framework

Kentucky's Strategic Prevention Framework - State Incentive Grant (SPF-SIG) is meant to strengthen community efforts to reduce substance abuse and its consequences. The plan for the Strategic Prevention Framework follows five steps: assessment, capacity building, planning, implementation, and evaluation. During the five year project lifespan, the five steps of the SPF process will be implemented in eight targeted pilot communities that exhibit high rates of substance abuse.

REACH of Louisville has played a key role in the planning and evaluation of the SPF-SIG project. REACH provides monitoring and ongoing assessment of Kentucky’s SPF SIG activities, assesses the overall effectiveness of the SPF initiative, provides recommendations for “course corrections” and needed adjustments as the project unfolds, identifies successful practices and promotes their sustainability, obtains and report data on SAMHSA’s national outcome measures, and provides training and technical assistance at the local level.