Center for Substance Abuse Prevention Online Courses

The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention has created several online courses that can assist you in understanding, developing and implementing an evaluation system for your prevention program

Safety in Numbers: Collecting and Using Crime, Violence, and Discipline Data to Make a Difference in Schools

This handbook is designed to be used by school, district, and state staff to improve the effectiveness of their efforts to collect and use disciplinary incident data. It provides recommendations on what types of data to collect, why it is critical to collect such data, and how the data can be used effectively to improve school safety and answer policy questions relating to school improvement and the safety of our students.

Understanding Evaluation: The Way To Better Prevention Programs

This handbook has been written to enable school and community agency staff to carry out required evaluations under the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act (DFSCA). However, its applicability is not restricted to programs supported through that Act. The handbook describes the why and how of program evaluation and outlines the steps in conducting evaluations. A premise guiding this handbook is that many evaluations that use simple designs can be conducted without formal training in program evaluation.