Prevention theories, models, and strategies support the practice of prevention and are used for program planning to help understand and explain health related behaviors while working with individuals, groups and communities. When considering how to implement a prevention theory or model, more than one theory or model can be used simultaneously with another to address a specific health concern.

• Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) Strategies
• Institute of Medicine Classifications (IOM)
• Public Health Model
• Socio-Ecological Model
• Stages of Change
• Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF)

2. Culturally Responsive Services

• Advancing Health Equity
• National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) 
• Social Determinants of Health

3. National Prevention Resources

• Alcohol Policy Information System
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA)
• Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
• National Council on Problem Gambling
• National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
• National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

• National Mentoring Partnership
• Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP)
• Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC)
  • Mid-America PTTC
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
• Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC)