Research and Initiatives
The P4CBP works on multiple initiatives throughout Ohio. Find out more about these initiatives by clicking on each logo.
Ohio Adult Allies facilitate youth-led programs. Youth-led programs are designed to empower young people to affect change in their communities and provide spaces for Ohio youth to develop critical learning, innovation, life, and career skills. By engaging in this process, youth contribute to building healthier, safer, and more resilient communities throughout Ohio.
Youth-led programs are community-based processes where young people:
1. Determine a problem of practice by examining local and state data on issues concerning Ohio youth.
2. Identify the root causes of their problem of practice
3. Select and implement evidence-based strategies to address those root causes
The Community Collective Impact Model for Change (CCIM4C) Initiative is a highly innovative approach aimed at preventing opioid use and abuse, reducing opioid-related deaths, and increasing access to treatment in the state of Ohio. By combining a data-driven, strategic planning process (the Strategic Prevention Framework, or SPF) with an emphasis on working collectively across the continuum of care (the Collective Impact Model), the eighteen funded communities are working to address the opioid epidemic in their communities by utilizing a trauma-informed approach that reduces trauma and promotes resiliency (the Tool for Health & Resilience in Vulnerable Environments, or THRIVE, and the Adverse Community Experiences and Resilience Framework, or ACE|R).
The second iteration of this initiative, CCIM4C 2.0, focused on Social Determinants of Health.
The Ohio Center of Excellence for Behavioral Health Prevention and Promotion (Center) is an accessible and interactive resource which serves to support and connect the broader prevention community across the state of Ohio, and is coordinated through a partnership between The Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (OhioMHAS), Ohio University’s Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service, and the Pacific Institute of Research and Evaluation (PIRE).
Founded in 2022, the Center uses works to build infrastructure and capacity to address substance use disorder, early intervention, and promote mental, emotional, and behavioral health among Ohioans. It will serve as a hub where people and organizations can learn and grow, get connected, embrace prevention science, and advance health equity.
Community-level partnerships are an essential element of the Center and help to ensure it is accessible and responsive to the broader prevention community. Eleven Inaugural Partner Organizations represent stakeholders who support the Center development by leveraging community-level buy in and partnerships from coalitions, cross-sector organizations, county Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Boards, the faith-based community and many others to expand best-in-class prevention resources, training, and support.
As partners in Ohio’s Children of Incarcerated Parents (CIP) Initiative, the P4CBP worked with the UMADAOPs and Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (OhioMHAS Office of Prevention and Wellness to provide training, technical assistance, and evaluation support for service providers working with families where one or more parents have experienced criminal justice involvement.
By building capacity among agencies and organizations implementing the CLFC program, they helped to build the infrastructure necessary for coalitions, faith-based organizations and service providers working in the correctional, criminal justice, court and reentry systems to embed evidence-based programming into their current service systems.
The Ohio Healthy Youth Environments Survey (OHYES!) empowers high-impact change by uncovering student needs at the local level. This survey offers a deeper look into the experiences of youth in different communities and environments across Ohio. Using these insights, we can learn where Ohio students are thriving and build on what works. This data can also enable schools to track changes in student health and safety over time. (From OHYES! | Ohio Youth Surveys)
In Ohio, efforts to increase capacity and sustainability at the local level use a community of practice model. A community of practice (CoP) is a group of people who share a craft or a profession. In the case of the HRSA Communities of Practice for Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (COP-RCORP) initiative, our shared craft is the planning of activities related to tackling the opioid epidemic. Our community consists of a master consortia, 5 local consortia, and partnerships at the state level.
With funding from the Appalachian New Economy Partnership, Ohio University’s Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs was able to provide training, technical assistance, and evaluation services to support a non-profit prevention agency in Lawrence County and a philanthropic foundation in Adams County as they worked to reduce the impact of underage drinking in their communities.
Between 2016-2019, Impact Prevention and the Adams County Medical Foundation received mini-grants from the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services to build workforce capacity and create an infrastructure for data-driven substance use prevention.
In 2020, these two agencies collaborated with the Voinovich School to win a $1.5 million award from the United States Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Over the next five years, these partners will work together to prevent the onset and reduce the progression of substance abuse.
Dynamic Partnerships and Collaborations
The P4CBP is honored to serve alongside so many dedicated organizations, please visit our dynamic partnerships page to learn more.