Assessing Community Readiness for Prevention
Community Readiness and Prevention Programs
Table 2. Anchor Rating Statements By Readiness Stage
A. Prevention Programming
1. Why should we be trying to prevent that behavior?
2. Prevention programs won't work here.
3. There aren't any immediate plans, but the community will probably do sometime.
4. There have been community meetings or staff meetings, but no final decisions have been made about what we might do.
5. One or more programs are being planned and staff are being selected and trained.
6. one or more prevention programs are being tried out now.
7. One or more programs have been running for several years and are fully expected to run indefinitely, no specific planning for anything else.
8.Several different programs in both the community and schools are running covering different age groups and reaching a wide range of people.
9. Evaluation plans are routinely used to test effectiveness of many different programs, and the results are being used to change and improve programs constantly.