Mentor_ Making it work:Systems thinking around prevention
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This presentation explains why it is important to develop a community of practice around evidence based prevention. To implement sustainable evidence-based practice, it is crucial to work in partnerships as a connected ecosystem. This way various actors within the community will: develop best practices, build a strong evidence base for what works, and support each other in protecting children and young people from harm by building their self-efficacy and resilience to risk as they move through childhood and adolescence.
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Mentor_ Making it work:Systems thinking around prevention
- 1. Making It Work: Systems Thinking Around Prevention
- 2. Objectives of this approach • Identifying community needs and filling the existing gaps; • Understanding each other’s role and responsibilities in prevention; • Working as a connected ecosystem to ensure effective, sustainable, and scalable prevention.
- 3. Who we are Mentor is the UK’s authoritative voice in protecting young people from the harms of drug and alcohol misuse. Research Programmes Policy
- 4. Our approach A holistic, life-course, systemic approach to prevention: Developing life skills that build resilience to risk. Throughout a young person’s lifetime CMOannualreport:2011‘Onthestateofthepublic’shealth’
- 5. Building our evidence base Mentor-ADEPIS is publicly acknowledged as the leading source of evidence-based resources for alcohol and drug education and prevention for schools. Evidence tells us what works
- 6. What is evidence? Source: UNODC International Standards on Drug Use Prevention, 2015
- 7. How to implement evidence- based practice? Systemic approach Networking Partnerships Leadership Support Sustainability Design Implementation Integration Funding Engagement Monitoring Evaluation Evidence
- 8. A community of (evidence-based) practice forms collaborative partnerships shares best practices and learning supports each other builds a strong evidence base
- 9. A connected ecosystem COMMUNITY YOUNG PERSON FAMILY SCHOOL Carers Parents Teacher & staff training Healthy Schools Extracurricular activities Leadership Resilience education Life-skills education PSHE Faith-based organisations School policyHealthcare services (incl. mental health) Emergency services External service providers Research and resource centres Local Education Authorities Media and advertising Youth / community groups Child protection services Rehabilitation services Prisons Charities Government National policy Data collection Legal services Carers’ support services International policy NGOs Businesses Work experience PRUs Peers
- 10. Sustainability Programme design Funding Infrastructure & Planning Programme Delivery Monitoring Evaluation & Feedback Data & Evidence Reporting Pre-implementation Implementation Post-implementation
- 11. Sustainability A systemic approach to an effective prevention system Source: UNODC
- 12. mentoruk.org.uk @Mentortweets mentor-adepis.org @MentorADEPIS Email: adepis@mentoruk.org Phone: 020 7552 9920 Stay connected
Editor's Notes
- Who we are For 17 years, Mentor has developed specialist knowledge and experience in programme delivery to prevent and reduce risks, particularly from alcohol and drugs. This helps build our evidence base of ‘what works’ for prevention – we draw on the best international scientific research available to inform our work and to help influence public policy related to the prevention of drug and alcohol misuse in the UK.
- Our approach In today’s complex world, young people need life skills that help them negotiate challenging situations and build their resilience to a range of negative risks. We believe the best strategy for supporting the immediate and long-term well-being of children and young people is through a holistic life-course approach to intervention and prevention. This means targeting a variety of settings, including schools, communities and families, as well as ensuring interventions take place early and often, rather than acting in the later years when problematic behaviours are more difficult to address and change. dispelling some more linear approaches, e.g.: · Focus on providing drugs harm information alone does not work · Awareness campaigns don’t work · Only reaching YP via school doesn’t work · D&A focus alone fails to recognise broader risks · Focus on enforcement legislation (e.g. NPS) alone doesn’t work
- Building our evidence base Evidence is crucial to our work, as it helps ensure programmes are effective at protecting children and young people from the harms of drugs and alcohol. The Alcohol and Drug Education and Prevention Information Service is a platform for sharing information and resources aimed at schools and practitioners working in drug and alcohol prevention. The resources we have already produced draw on eight years of work with the Drug Education Forum, which supported local authorities and schools to implement best practice in drug education. In April 2015, Mentor was granted additional joint government funding to manage the Centre for Analysis of Youth Transitions (CAYT) and integrate its repository of evidence-based impact studies into Mentor-ADEPIS.
- What is evidence? Guidance on the types of evidence based approaches and their characteristics Many prevention programs are in place but how to select the most effective/with proven evidence behind it? Define and recognise evidence-based. Main features: programme effectiveness has been recognized through evaluations and rigorous studies assessing impact and outcomes Replicability of the programme –outcomes and impacts reproduced across multiple settings- Sustained effects over time Prevention science has been expanding in recent years and it is now used to address practitioners and policymakers when selecting and designing interventions. Drawing on the previous criteria, prevention scientists produced International standards to assess prevention programmes. The above table summarizes interventions and policies that have been found to meet quality standards for good evidence and yield positive results in preventing substance abuse by age of the target group and setting, as well as by level of risk and an indication of efficacy.
- How to implement evidence-based practice? Systemic approach– To make any intervention work a holistic approach is necessary and various stakeholders need to be involved, from scientists to practitioners. This approach include ways we can identify potential partnerships and better support one another. Sustainability – a complex and important part of our work is making sure evidence-based practice is sustainable after an initial pilot or test. There are many factors that go into making a programme sustainable, a few of which are listed here.
- Why do we need a community of evidence-based practice? The challenges young people face as they grow up are complex and interlinked. Addressing potential harms before they become damaging is vital, and it cannot be done by one organisation alone. This image shows a high-level visualisation of the many prevention and intervention charities whose work is aimed at preventing the harms of alcohol and drugs, putting young people and their families at the centre of the work as both participants and recipients of services and programmes. We work in partnerships to develop best practices, build a strong evidence base for what works, and support each other in protecting children and young people from harm by building their self-efficacy and resilience to risk as they move through childhood and adolescence
- A connected ecosystem Last time, we looked at what works for prevention. In todays’ session, we are going to look at ways to make it work in a sustainable way. We’re going to do this by looking at our community as an connected ecosystem of prevention. There are many ways the individual organisations can connect. Here you can see just some of the key players in this ecosystem and the ways they might influence one another. This is by no means an exhaustive illustration – we’d run out of space on the slide if we tried to do that! By bringing members of this community together, we can make more connections and focus our expertise and resources on the all-important centre of this ecosystem: young people and children.
- Sustainability A systemic approach to sustainability. When we think about sustainability we have to understand that there are various contributing factors, all interconnected, that impact on the viability for a programme or intervention to be evidence-based, become sustainable and potentially scalable. Specifically, when thinking about planning and implementing an intervention that looks at being sustainable, we need to ensure that we have the right links and relationships in place that will support us developing an evidence-based, sustainable, and scalable programme. It is a matter of making sure that the right individuals, bodies, or stakeholders are engaged at the right stage of the project. An effective project cycle would look like this – each part is linked , and feeds back into others. In order to plan a sustainable programme, it is important to make sure that each stage of the cycle is effective, and works with the other parts in a systemic way.
- Sustainability – A systemic approach to an effective prevention system This slide shows components and features of an effective systemic prevention system. Shows the essential requirements of systemic engagement at different levels to ensure sustainability and scalability, including: Policies Capacity building for professionals Data-collection and research for planning, mon& eval
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