SAMHSA's STRATEGIC PREVENTION FRAMEWORK 

The Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) draws from a community-based risk and protective factors approach to prevention and a series of guiding principles, which coordinate the federal, state/tribal, and community-level efforts.

The SPF requires states and communities to systematically:

• Assess their prevention needs based on epidemiological data,
• Build their prevention capacity,
• Develop a strategic plan,
• Implement effective community prevention programs, policies, and practices, and
• Evaluate their efforts for outcomes.

For more information on Ohio's historic efforts with SPF, please visit the Ohio SPF SIG web page.