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Prevention by Design helps local agencies and organizations
protect community public health and safety, and
promote community well-being, through an environmental
planning approach designed to prevent alcohol/drug
problems and related public health and public safety problems. This approach is geared primarily to
serve the needs of local communities, particularly
cities.
Starting January 1, 2007, this website will support
a community-level environmental planning approach
to prevention of alcohol/drug problems and related
public health and safety problems. Called Taking
Charge, this approach is based on Three Actor Model,
a participatory planning approach that helps local
agencies, organizations and groups establish local
accountability for health and safety problems at
high-risk settings and circumstances in community
environments. The model brings together three sets
of actors -- (1) owners and managers; (2) occupants
and neighbors; (3) officials/other interested parties
-- each of whom has a stake in their shared environment.
The model uses the CSAP SPF Five Step planning process,
outlined on this website, to help these actors,
or stakeholders, identify and reduce risks in the
subject environment.
The Three Actor Model draws
on concepts from public health, public safety, community
planning, and environmental design. Work is accomplished
through the Taking Charge framework described on
this website. The model applies to local community
environments ranging from low-scale (individual
addresses, specific events), to middle-scale (classes
of facilities and public events such as all retail
alcohol outlets, all street fairs), to large-scale
(major planning districts, policies for major public
events).
Prevention by Design staff, consultants,
and colleagues provide environmental risk-assessment
services; facilitation services for program planning
and policy development; special project planning
and problem-solving assistance; environmental and
architectural design; and evaluation services. Policy
analysis, research, and long-range planning services
are also available.
Starting January 1, 2006, this website provides information under the auspices of the Community Prevention Planning Program at the Institute for the Study of Social Change, University of California at Berkeley. Support for this website from the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs (DADP) ended December 31, 2006.
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