# Presentation: 949078

**National Prevention Summit: Promotion, Preparedness, and Promotion**
**October 26, 2006**

- “NREPP becomes a leading national
- resource for contemporary and reliable
- information on the scientific basis and
- practicality of interventions to prevent and/or treat mental and substance use disorders.”

**NREPP represents:**
- A major agency activity within SAMHSA’s Science to Service initiative
- A decision support tool and valuable resource for state and community-based organizations seeking to identify and select interventions to meet their needs
***Not a list of approved programs and practices***

**Overview of Review Process**

- Applicant submits intervention materials during open submission process
- Program Review Manager determines if minimum requirements are met and assigns priority points
- Interventions meeting minimum requirements in priority areas sent to SAMHSA Centers for approval
- SAMHSA approved interventions assigned to Review Coordinator who works with the applicant to complete review materials

**Overview of Review Process ****Continued**

- Intervention materials and summary packets prepared by Review Coordinators sent to two doctoral-level scientific reviewers to rate Strength of Evidence and Readiness for Dissemination dimensions
- Intervention materials sent to two consumer/family and/or program implementation reviewers to rate Readiness for Dissemination
- Scores and descriptive information sent to applicants for review and consent to post on NREPP Web site
- Intervention descriptive summaries and review results uploaded to NREPP Web site

**Types of Materials Submitted**

-  **Strength of Evidence**
- Research articles and published/unpublished evaluation reports
- Grant final reports
- Replication reports
- Data collection manuals

**Types of Materials Submitted ****Continued**

-  **Readiness for Dissemination**
- Implementation guides, training manuals, presentations and curricula
- Quality assurance and monitoring protocols and procedures
- Data collection protocols for process and outcome measures
- Products and materials adapted for different age/cultural groups

**Types of Materials Submitted ****Continued**

-  **Additional Documents / Narrative**
** ****To Describe:**
- Costs of implementation: Start-up and maintenance
- Proprietary components of intervention
- Implementation history of intervention
- Unintended or adverse effects of the intervention
- Contact information

**Types of NREPP Reviewers**

-  **Strength of Evidence Reviewers**
- Doctoral-level researchers and practitioners with scientific evaluation knowledge and experience** **
**Readiness for Dissemination Reviewers**

-  	**Three Minimum Requirements for ****NREPP Submission**1. Demonstrate one or more positive outcomes in mental health and/or     substance abuse behavior among individuals, communities, or     populations.2. Demonstrate intervention results have been published in a peer-     reviewed publication or documented in a comprehensive evaluation      report.3. Demonstrate materials such as manuals, process guides, and training     guides that are available to the public to implement the intervention.

-  	**Exclusions: These Interventions****	****Should Not Be Submitted**1. Stand-alone pharmacologic treatments (FDA reviews and    approves these). NREPP reviews are limited to on-label    use of FDA-approved pharmacotherapy interventions that   are combined with one or more psychosocial treatments.2. Stand-alone smoking cessation interventions. These are    only appropriate for NREPP review when conducted as part   of a program for treatment of alcohol or other drugs of    abuse.

**NREPP Priority Point System**

-  **1 priority point -- Research design****   **
**	**Experimental (e.g., randomized control study) or quasi-experimental (e.g., pre/post with comparison group, or interrupted time series) research design
**1 priority point -- Priority topic area****   **
**   **Primary outcome(s) of the submitted   intervention is (are) in one or more of SAMHSA’s Center-specific priority areas.

-  	**Following Up** More information on NREPP is available through SAMHSA’s Web site by clicking on “National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices” on the SAMHSA home page at _[www.samhsa.gov](http://www.samhsa.gov/)_.For questions on NREPP or other SAMHSA activities to promote use of evidence-based services, contact:	Kevin D. Hennessy, Ph.D.	Science to Service Coordinator, SAMHSA	Phone: 240-276-2234	E-mail: _[kevin.hennessy@samhsa.hhs.gov](mailto:kevin.hennessy@samhsa.hhs.gov)_