Environmental Strategies for Prevention
A Guide To Helping the Prevention Professional Work Effectively in the Community

Module 1: An Introduction to Environmental Strategies - Page 13 of 21

Combining Strategies

All three of these factors -- norms, availability, and regulations -- are interrelated. For example, despite the passage of strong drinking and driving laws, experts attribute the slow progress in reducing drunk driving to a lack of enforcement and communities' lack of awareness of the actual severity and seriousness of the problem. ref

Successful interventions using environmental strategies allow diverse sectors in society to present the problem from many perspectives in order to weave solutions into the fabric of the environment. For this process to work, it's frequently the prevention professional's job to take a leadership role to recognize how these diverse sectors view the problem and engage them in solutions.

As the case studies in this course show, the most effective prevention approaches use environmental strategies to reinforce and supplement other prevention messages and programs in a given community.

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