1. Risk & Protective Factors
Quick discussion:
Take a risk/protective factor card
Share what’s on your card 3 times, each time with 1 other person

2. Making Risk & Protection Come Alive for your Audience!
Dalene Dutton and Blair Brooke-Weiss
Communities That Care Coaches
Center for Communities That Care,
University of Washington

3. Objectives Participants will be able to:
Explain what is meant by ‘shared risk and protective factors’
Explain the prevention value of focusing on shared risk and protective factors
Demonstrate ability to facilitate between 1-3 different approaches to introducing the concept of shared risk and protective factors
Discuss relevance of these different approaches to different audiences

4. Agenda Topic Risk/Protective Factor Cards
What does it mean: ‘shared risk and protective factors’?
Risk/Protective Factor Sculpture
Drawing the River Activity
Discussion: target audiences
Questions and wrap up for the day

5. Objectives Participants will be able to:
Explain what is meant by ‘shared risk and protective factors’
Explain the prevention value of focusing on shared risk and protective factors
Demonstrate ability to facilitate between 1-3 different approaches to introducing the concept of shared risk and protective factors
Discuss relevance of these different approaches to different audiences

6. What does it mean: “Shared Risk and Protective Factors”?

7. Risk Factors for Health & Behavior Problems
Substance Abuse
Delinquency
Teen Pregnancy
School Dropout
Violence
Depression & Anxiety
Community
Availability of Drugs •
Availability of Firearms
Community Laws and Norms Favorable Toward Drug Use, Firearms, and Crime
Media Portrayals of the Behavior
Transitions and Mobility
Low Neighborhood Attachment and Community Disorganization
Extreme Economic Deprivation
Family
Family History of the Problem Behavior
Family Management Problems
Family Conflict
Favorable Parental Attitudes and Involvement in the Problem Behavior
School
Academic Failure Beginning in Late Elementary School
Lack of Commitment to School
Individual/Peer
Early and Persistent Antisocial Behavior
Rebelliousness
Gang Involvement
Friends Who Engage in the Problem Behavior
Favorable Attitudes Toward the Problem Behavior
Early Initiation of the Problem Behavior
Constitutional Factors

8. Protective Factors Individual Cognitive Competence
Substance Abuse
Delinquency
Safe Sexual Behavior
School Drop-Out
Violence
Depression & Anxiety
Individual
Cognitive Competence 
Emotional Competence
Social/Behavioral Competence
Self Efficacy
Belief in the Future
Self-determination
Pro-social Norms
Spirituality
Family, School and Community
Opportunities for Positive Social Involvement 
Recognition for Positive Behavior
Bonding to Prosocial Others

9. Specific to Preventing Different Types of Violence

10. More on Preventing Substance Abuse and Mental Health Issues
SAMHSA
2016 Surgeon General’s Report

11. Challenge: How to Introduce this Topic in a Way that Grabs Your Audience?
Quick chat at your tables to share examples of great ways you’ve seen this concept introduced!
5 min discussion at your tables
Whole group: 1-2 unique examples

12. Objectives Participants will be able to:
Explain what is meant by ‘shared risk and protective factors’
Explain the prevention value of focusing on shared risk and protective factors
Demonstrate ability to facilitate between 1-3 different approaches to introducing the concept of shared risk and protective factors
Discuss relevance of these different approaches to different audiences

13. Risk & Protective Factor Sculpture
Demonstration
Volunteers?
Follow along in your handout

14. Drawing the River

15. Drawing the River

16. Drawing the River

17. Drawing the River

18. Drawing the River

19. Drawing the River

20. Drawing the River

21. Drawing the River

22. Drawing the River

23. Drawing the River

24. Drawing the River

25. Drawing the River

26. Drawing the River

27. Drawing the River

28. Do Your Own Drawing!
Think of your own visual metaphor (or use the river)
Draw it!
Check it against one of the risk factor lists to see how well your analogy works for that list
Share your drawing/ explanation with your table group

29. Objectives Participants will be able to:
Explain what is meant by ‘shared risk and protective factors’
Explain the prevention value of focusing on shared risk and protective factors
Demonstrate ability to facilitate between 1-3 different approaches to introducing the concept of shared risk and protective factors
Discuss relevance of these different approaches to different audiences

30. What Might Work for Different Audiences?
Table group discussion!
10 minutes
“What kinds of audiences might respond well to each approach?”
Take notes at your table
We’ll share a few ideas in full room

31. Objectives: How’d we do?
Participants will be able to:
Explain what is meant by ‘shared risk and protective factors’
Explain the prevention value of focusing on shared risk and protective factors
Demonstrate ability to facilitate between 1-3 different approaches to introducing the concept of shared risk and protective factors
Discuss relevance of these different approaches to different audiences

32. Questions? Comments? Make sure to fill out a feedback form!
Wrap up!
Questions? Comments? Make sure to fill out a feedback form!