TITLE Prevention Plus III: Assessing Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Programs at the School and Community Level. A Four-Step Guide to Useful Program

This workbook, the third in a series of "Prevention Plus " publications, provides a step-by-step Approach to assessing alcohol and other drug prevention programs at the school and community level. Program assessment is presented according to a four-step model: (1) goal and desired outcome identification: (2) process assessment; (3) outcome assessment; and (4) impact assessment. The workbook contains several major sections. The first two sections describe the logic of program assessment, the basic four-step approach to assessment, and the benefits and some of the costs and fears of program assessment and evaluation. The section on prevention describes basic concepts of prevention and discusses problems and recommendations in prevention programming and special considerations in evaluating prevention programs. The section on program assessment plans describes the plan for collectin