– Dennis O. Romero, M.A, Former Director of CSAP (2007)
Brief History
In 2005, Indiana was awarded a Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) State Incentive Grant (SIG). The purpose of this funding was to increase the prevention infrastructure and decrease substance use and abuse as well as its associated consequences. In the final year of the SPF-SIG contract, the Division of Mental Health and Addiction began to seek for a way to continue the SPF process and see it reach more communities throughout the state. It was then decided upon that The Communities That Care system would be used to carry on the prevention work that the SPF-SIG helped kick-start in the state.
Fitting CTC into SPF
It is important to remember that the CTC system is simply a tool to aid in building a prevention infrastructure referred to as the SPF process. CTC and SPF are not programs nor are they administrative names for program implementation. They exist and work together in helping communities get organized, identify problem areas based on community data, make knowledgeable decisions pertaining to how these problems should be addressed, and evaluate any actions taken to counter the problem areas. Most people are either familiar with SPF or with CTC, or they have no prior knowledge of either. This website was designed to help everyone navigate through the elements of the SPF process, see how CTC fits into this process, and also gain a greater knowledge in building a strong prevention infrastructure. Each phase of the CTC system fits well into a coordinating phase of the SPF process, and it is clear that sustainability and cultural competency as key components to every part of building a prevention infrastructure. When navigating this website, the chart above can be used to find either CTC or SPF materials.
