Effective Prevention in New Jersey

risk perception interventions, early initiation and identification programs, counter-marketing, marketing restrictions, and laws to impact supply (e.g., outlet density laws).

The high prevalence of ACEs among our youth and the cross intersection with substance use makes ACEs an important consideration in planning and implementing effective prevention programs.

SALE

Please find the full NJ ACEs Statewide Action Plan here: https://www.nj.gov/dcf/documents/NJ.ACEs.Action.Plan.2021.pdf

POINT OF SALE

LAWS TO IMPACT SUPPLY

More information on the research behind ACEs is found below in Section 5

SOCIAL AVAILABILITY

areas to implement PREVENTION STRATEGIES

SUBSTANCE USE PREVENTION PREDICTIVE OUTCOMES REPORTING TOOL FOR NEW JERSEY

EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS

In partnership with RWJBarnabas Health Institute for Prevention & Recovery, the New Jersey Prevention Network and RTI International, through funding from the DMHAS, a predictive modeling tool entitled SUPPORT-NJ (Substance Use Prevention Predictive Outcomes Reporting Tool for New Jersey) was developed. SUPPORT NJ combines evidence on the potential impact of substance use prevention strategies with data on substance use prevalence, incidence, and impacts for the state and its individual counties to simulate the potential predictive impact of implementing certain evidence-based strategies or combinations of strategies for New Jersey’s youth and young adults.

RISK PERCEPTION

LEGAL CONSEQUENCES

COUNTER-MARKETING & MARKETING RESTRICTIONS

SUPPORT NJ was created to assess the impact of these strategies on alcohol and marijuana use, heavy use, and associated outcomes. The model tracks the experiences of simulated individuals - defined by gender and age group - for up to five years as they transition among four mutually- exclusive states: 1) no use, 2) non-heavy use, 3) heavy use, and 4) former use. The model considers the outcomes/consequences including missed school days, hospitalizations and emergency department visits, and arrests with different probabilities based on their age, gender, and current drug use state. xv The Regional Prevention Coalitions can use the SUPPORT NJ tool to direct planning to the most impactful strategies to be implemented within a community or county.

SUPPORT NJ is a microsimulation model of alcohol and marijuana use that allows coalitions to explore the impacts from a monthly lens through a 5-year period of the implementation of evidence-based individual and community-level interventions. Through a thorough search of available research and evidence of effectiveness, taking into consideration individuals aged 13 to 25 years old, several categories of strategies are highlighted within this model: point of sale interventions, legal consequences, social availability interventions,

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