SEVENTH MEETING OF THE GROUP OF EXPERTS 
IN DEMAND REDUCTION
 

Ottawa, Ontario
September 13-15, 2005
Delta Hotel and Suites

Evaluation of Youth Substance Abuse Prevention Programs

This meeting was held under the Chairmanship of Ms. Beth Pieterson, Director General of the Drug Strategy and Controlled Substances Programme of Health Canada, on the topic of Evaluation of Youth Substance Abuse Prevention Programs. These experts, brought together from countries across the hemisphere, considered existing evaluation experiences in the Americas, and then, through working groups, reviewed a draft logic model and appropriate performance indicators for use in prevention evaluation in OAS Member States.

Meeting Agenda

Agenda (pdf)

Final Report

• Final report (Spanish) (pdf) English version in translation

Technical Documents
NOTE: The following documents should be reviewed by all experts PRIOR to the meeting
* Please note:  The presentations and documents linked below are the exclusive property of each author (i.e. presenter), and their unmodified reproduction or distribution for educational, non-profit purposes is encouraged if and only if reference is made to the author-presenter.

• Background paper - pdf - French

• Narrative description of the Logic Model

• Draft logic model (or pdf), under review by experts - French

• Narrative description of the Performance Indicator Table - French

• Draft performance indicator table (or pdf), for review by experts - French

• Reference List

Presentations

Dissemination of the CICAD Hemispheric Guidelines on School-based Prevention

• Dissemination of the CICAD Guidelines in Canada (ppt) (CICAD/DREX/doc.12/05)
  Ms. Halina Cyr, Director, Office of Demand Reduction, Health Canada
  Mr. Doug McCall, Executive Director, Joint Consortium on School Health

• Dissemination of the CICAD Guidelines in Paraguay and Plans for School-based Programs (CICAD/DREX/doc.26/05)
  Ms. Graciela Barreto de Ruiz, National Anti-Drug Secretariat (SENAD), Paraguay

Introduction to Evaluation of Substance Use and Abuse Prevention

• Fundamental components of substance use and abuse prevention evaluation: The role of the Logic Model and Performance Indicators (CICAD/DREX/doc.10/05)
  Ms. Colleen Ryan, Health Canada

• Evaluation of youth prevention programs in the OAS member states: Common perils and pitfalls (CICAD/DREX/doc.11/05)
  Mr. Pernell Clarke, Specialist, Inter-American Observatory on Drugs (OID), CICAD

• Measuring Outcomes: The Role of Attitudes in Predicting Alcohol and Other Drug Use Behaviors: A Cautionary Tale (CICAD/DREX/doc.16/05) 
  Dr. Elizabeth B. Robertson, Chief, Prevention Research Branch, Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research. National Institute on Drug Abuse, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

• Evaluation in the context of Life Skills programs (CICAD/DREX/doc.17/05)
  Ms. Maribel Tejera, Chief Trainer, Lions Educating Program, Colombia

What we know about evaluating substance abuse prevention programs: Challenges and best practices in the Americas.
 

Presentations and Panel Discussion: Strategies for conducting prevention evaluations of youth programs in the Americas, considering budget, human resources, and other concerns.

• Evaluation Challenges in Chile (CICAD/DREX/doc.14/05)
  Ms. Teresa Izquierdo, Director of Prevention, National Substance Control Council (CONACE), Chile

• Mr. Gustavo Ascacíbar, Peru (CICAD/DREX/doc.27/05)

• Basic Elements of Prevention Programs and the Logic Model Approach for their Planning and Evaluation (CICAD/DREX/doc.15/05)
  Prof. Angela María Parra, Luis Amigó University Foundation (FUNLAM), Colombia.
  
  Presentations and Panel Discussion: Strategies for conducting prevention evaluations of youth programs in the Americas, considering budget, human resources, and other concerns.
   

• The Clash Between Science and the Real World (CICAD/DREX/doc.24/05)
  Dr. Zili Sloboda, Senior Research Associate, Institute for Health and Social Policy, the University of Akron, (Ohio, United States) and Member, CICAD Scientific Advisory Committee

• Prevention Framework and the Evaluation of Program Effectiveness (CICAD/DREX/doc.13/05)
  Dr. Hugo A. Míguez, National Scientific Research Council, Argentina

• Our Experience in Monitoring and Evaluating Drug Abuse Prevention (CICAD/DREX/doc.25/05)
  Ms. Giovanna Campello, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Vienna

           Developing a Logic Model for the Evaluation of Youth Substance Use and Abuse Prevention Programs

• Description of the draft Logic Model for the Evaluation of Youth Substance and Abuse Prevention
  Programs (CICAD/DREX/doc.19/05) - French
  Ms. Wanda Jamieson, Consultant

• Case Study No. 1 – Universal Prevention: School-based life skills education (CICAD/DREX/doc.28/05)
  Ms. Maribel Tejera, Colombia

• Case Study No. 2 – Selective Prevention: Community-based prevention in Chile (CICAD/DREX/doc.18/05)
  Dr. Teresa Izquierdo, CONACE, Chile

• Case Study No. 3 – Indicated Prevention: Prevention Network for Street Youth in Venezuela (CICAD/DREX/doc.20/05)
  Ms. Luz Beatriz Sayago, Alternative Prevention, Venezuela

• Presentations by the working groups to the Plenary: Universal, Selective and Indicated

The Identification of Performance Indicators for Youth Substance Abuse Prevention Programs and their relationship to the Logic Model.

• Introduction to Performance Indicators, their link to the components of the Logic Model, and their function in measuring program processes and impacts; Explanation of the draft performance indicator table for youth substance use and abuse prevention programs (CICAD/DREX/doc.23/05) - French
  Ms. Wanda Jamieson, Consultant

• Considerations of data availability and generation for the identification of viable performance indicators in OAS member states (CICAD/DREX/doc.22/05)

  Mr. Pernell Clarke, CICAD

• Presentations by the working groups to the plenary: Universal, Selective and Indicated