Resources
We've compiled some helpful resources, many from peer organizations in other states, that cover the information you'll need to know for the exam. The resources are numbered to provide a suggested order for studying the materials.
1 – Facilitating Meetings: A Guide for Community Planning
2 – Identifying and Selecting Evidence-Based Interventions
3 – Assessment Primer: Analyzing the Community, Identifying Problems and Setting Goals
4 – Capacity Primer: Building Membership, Structure and Leadership
5 – Planning Primer: Developing a Theory of Change, Logic Models and Strategic and Action Plans
6 – Implementation Primer: Putting Your Plan into Action
7 – Evaluation Primer: Setting the Context for a Drug-Free Communities Coalition Evaluation
8 – Cultural Competence Primer: Incorporating Cultural Competence into Your Comprehensive Plan
9 – Sustainability Primer: Fostering Long-Term Change to Create Drug-Free Communities
10 – People Power: Mobilizing Communities for Policy Change
11 – Telling the Coalition Story: Comprehensive Communication Strategies
12 – The Coalition Impact: Environmental Prevention Strategies
13 – Drugs, Brains, and Behavior: The Science of Addiction
14 – Focus on Prevention: Strategies and Programs to Prevent Substance Abuse
This examination reference material was originally assembled for a CPS Exam Preparation Course offered in Washington State by Prevention Training Services which also periodically offers exam preparation sessions.
The Rhode Island Resource Center created an IC&RC study guide that we also found to be very helpful.