Evaluating Environmental Management Approaches to Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Prevention

This 6-page Prevention Update is designed to orient college and university administrators who are interested in learning how to evaluate prevention programs based on the environmental management approach. It looks at five steps of the evaluation process: (1) describing the intervention, (2) identifying process measures, (3) identifying outcome measures, (4) selecting a research design, and (5) utilizing the results. It also provides a sample logic model to help outline how the evaluation will work.