Strategic Prevention Framework

SPF Series: Planning for Success

IT’S TIME TO CELEBRATE!!! We are halfway through our Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) Series blog posts! If you need to catch up, you can take a look at our first three posts on the SPF Series Kick-Off, Assessment, and Building Capacity. Let’s get started with the...

SPF Series: Building Capacity While Utilizing Cultural Competence

If you have been following our SPF Series or if this is your first time hearing about it, you are in for a treat! Last month, our SPF blog series covered Assessment. This month, we are diving in to… (drum roll, please)… Building Capacity (also known as Capacity...

SPF Series: What’s So Great About Assessment?

Did you get a chance to read our SPF Series Kickoff blog post a few weeks ago? If so, you already know how excited we are to be sharing the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) with our readers over the next few weeks. In continuing with our series, we are now going...

SPF Series Kickoff: What It Is & Why We Use It

Give me an S…..S! Give me a P……P! Give me an F….F! What does that spell? SPF! You may be wondering – why all this commotion about “SPF?” What does it even mean? Well, in the next few moments, we will try and answer that question for you! SPF stands for the...

GUIDE YAB Gets a Fresh Start in 2014

GUIDE, Inc. Youth Advisory Board (YAB), made up of 15 high school students in Gwinnett County, seeks to create positive community change. Five of our YAB members attended a leadership program this past summer, Georgia Teen Institute. While they were at camp, the group...