Overview of CAPT Tools to Prevention Youth Marijuana Use
SAMHSA’s Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPT) has developed a variety of resources to assist states and communities in using prevention research to inform the prevention of youth marijuana use. These tools include the following:
Risk and Protective Factors Associated with Youth Marijuana Use
http://www.samhsa.gov/capt/sites/default/files/resources/risk-protective-factors-marijuana-use.pdf
This tool provides a detailed summary of research findings on risk and protective factors associated with youth marijuana use. These factors have been organized according to the socio-ecological model, a multi-level framework that allows us to consider the different contexts in which these factors exist.
Prevention Programs that Address Youth Marijuana Use
http://www.samhsa.gov/capt/sites/default/files/resources/prevention-youth-marijuana-use.pdf
Drawing from national databases and registries of effective programs and practices, this tool provides detailed summaries of interventions that have been shown to prevent or reduce marijuana use among youth populations.
Strategies and Interventions to Prevent Youth Marijuana Use: An At-a-Glance Resource Tool
http://www.samhsa.gov/capt/sites/default/files/resources/prevent-youth-marijuana-use-tool.pdf
This tool provides brief summaries of prevention strategies and associated interventions that have been evaluated to determine their effects on marijuana outcomes for youth populations.
Youth Marijuana Use: Consumption, Consequences, and Risk and Protective Factor Data Resources
http://www.samhsa.gov/capt/sites/default/files/resources/marijuana-consumption-consequence.pdf
This compilation of data sources provides information on available surveys and data collection resources that provide data related to youth marijuana use.
Preventing Youth Marijuana Use: An Annotated Bibliography
http://www.samhsa.gov/capt/sites/default/files/resources/bibliography-youth-marijuana-use.pdf
This annotated bibliography Provides abstracts for the research articles included in these documents:
· Risk and Protective Factors Associated with Youth Marijuana Use
· Prevention Programs that Address Youth Marijuana Use
· Strategies and Interventions to Prevent Youth Marijuana Use: An At-a-Glance Resource Tool
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Developed under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Center for the Application of Prevention
Technologies task order. Reference #HHSS283201200024I/HHSS28342002T. For training use only. November 30, 2015