As outlined in this document, the 2018 Comprehensive Community Prevention Plan for Partnership Carson City is structured according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF). The five steps that comprise the SPF allow effective collaboration with PCC and other coalition groups for sustained and long term prevention. Each step produces key points that are essential to the validity of the process. “This framework is a dynamic, data-driven planning process that prevention practitioners can use to understand and more effectively address the substance abuse and related mental health problems facing their communities” (SAMHSA).