Strategic Prevention Framework Initiative

What is the Strategic Prevention Framework?

The Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) is a widely available and accessible community engagement model grounded in public and behavioral health principles developed by the Substance Use and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to address local substance use and behavioral health challenges. Find out more about this model.

The SPF includes these five steps

1. Assessment: Identify local prevention needs based on data (e.g., What is the problem?)
2. Capacity: Build local resources and readiness to address prevention needs (e.g., What do you have to work with? How can you facilitate the communication of prevention science?)
3. Planning: Find out what works to address prevention needs and how to do it. (e.g., What should you do and how should you do it?)
4. Implementation: Deliver data-based programs and practices as intended (e.g., How can you and your coalition put your plan into action?)
5. Evaluation: Examine the process and outcomes of programs and practices (e.g., Is your plan succeeding?)

What is the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) Community Advisory Board (CAB)?

The SPF CAB will serve as the vehicle for implementing the Strategic Prevention Framework. It’s an ongoing collaborative effort to address substance use and behavioral health disparities among youth with a variety of backgrounds and lived experiences in Washington County. The SPF CAB will work on activities that aim to reduce the health, social, and economic harms of substance use through community engagement and effective prevention strategies.

CAB Roster 2025-2026

You can read more about roster members in the PDF file below:

Cyndy Hillier

CAB Chair - Tualatin Together

Trevor Higgins

Vice Chair - Founder of Empoderando Familias and Skating is Connection (SIC)

Evan McCracken

Juvenile Services Department with Washington County

Fanya Stein

School Counselor in the Beaverton School District

Lamar Tillman

Traditional Health Worker Liaison with Trillium Community Health Plan

Liban Satu

Founder of Risen Community Organization

Lucy Beltran

Parent Educator and Founder of BSL Family Development Services

Lukas Mmbando

Risen Community Organization

Matthew Casteel

Principal at Aloha High School

Ruth Parra

Facilitator and Alcohol and Drug Counselor

Sunshine Navarro Shively

Executive Director of Tigard Turns the Tide

Sydney White

Masters Student at Pacific University

SPF Initiative Timeline

Past CAB Activities (2025)

As part of the SPF initiative’s launch, the County’s Prevention and Behavioral Health programs hosted an in-person community needs assessment event in April 2025, inviting community members, partners and a variety of organizations to learn about the initiative while sharing their experiences and reviewing local data on substance use in relation to youth and young adults. Together, over 80 attendees and a total of 32 organizations:

• Better understood OHA’s four-year grant and the SPF on the whole.
• Went through publicly available data on opioid alcohol, opioid and polysubstance use and identified data gaps.

• Collectively identified priority substance use problem(s) and affected population(s) based on five data factors (i.e., magnitude, severity, gaps in access or outcome, trend and comparison) You can find data summaries from the kick off event on this page in English and Spanish:

  SPF Kick Off WashCo Data Summary (PDF 77.54 KB)

  Resumen de Datos del Evento de Lanzamiento del SPF – Condado de Washington (Español) (Spanish PDF 99.08 KB)

Resources

• Strategic Prevention Technical Assistance Center (SPTAC)
• SPF CAB Charter 2025-2026
• SPF CAB Frequently Asked Questions
• Sign up to receive the Live Well Prevention Newsletter. This bi-monthly newsletter is dedicated to the prevention of suicide, alcohol, tobacco, drug use, problem gambling, and other behavioral health challenges.