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Community Indicators of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Risk County Prevention Profiles
This information was prepared by ADP's Community Prevention Institute training and technical assistance contract. The purpose is to provide timely, relevant informationon the status of alcohol and other drug use problems in California in order to facilitate planning and monitoring of prevention outcomes at the county level.
In the mid-1990s the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs (ADP), in collaboration with the EMT Group, Inc., began work on improving the state’s prevention information systems. A primary goal of this effort was to develop a management information system for consistently and uniformly documenting: a) level of need for state substance abuse prevention programming, b) the nature and extent of program efforts in prevention implemented throughout the state, and c) the effectiveness of these prevention efforts in obtaining intended outcomes.
A key component of this information system was the continuous collection, monitoring, and reporting of selected community-level indicators that would serve as direct and indirect measures of alcohol and other drug use prevalence and related problems. This information system was designed to assist with statewide prevention planning and policy-making by providing useful, systematic data about prevention needs and related conditions throughout the state. Specifically, the report may serve as a tool for planners, policy-makers, and practitioners in the field in their efforts to:
- Determine the prevalence of a problem in the community;
- Identify needs and establish priorities for services;
- Forecast service needs;
- Establish appropriate program resource levels;
- Understand environmental influences in the community; and
- Determine whether intended social change is occurring.
The report compiles data on 26 community indicators, including measures of risk factors associated with alcohol and other drug use, measures of overall substance use prevalence, and measures of the consequences associated with problem use. Each indicator and its population-based rate is reported in six-year trends with state and county-level comparisons to allow for monitoring of changes in problem status over time and across geographic area.
Alameda County
Alpine County
Amador County
Butte County
Calaveras County
Colusa County
Contra Costa County
Del Norte County
El Dorado County
Fresno County
Glenn County
Humboldt County
Imperial County
Inyo County
Kern County
Kings County
Lake County
Lassen County
Los Angeles County
Madera County
Orange County
Marin County
Mariposa County
Mendocino County
Merced County
Modoc County
Mono County
Monterey County
Napa County
Nevada County
Placer County
Plumas County
Riverside County
Sacramento County
San Benito County
San Bernardino County
San Diego County
San Francisco County
San Joaquin County
San Luis Obispo County
San Mateo County
Santa Barbara County
Santa Clara County
Santa Cruz County
Shasta County
Sierra County
Siskiyou County
Solano County
Sonoma County
Stanislaus County
Sutter County
Tehama County
Trinity County
Tulare County
Tuolumne County
Ventura County
Yolo County
Yuba County