IC&RC Prevention Specialist Exam Prep questions and
answers CPS Materials Prevention Training 2026\2027
A+ Grade
A community coalition is advocating for an ordinance to ban the sale of alcohol at the annual fall family
festival. This is an example of:
A. an alternative activity strategy.
B. a family intervention strategy.
C. an environmental strategy.
D. an enforcement strategy.
- correct answer an environmental strategy
A prevention specialist's agency conducts a school-based indicated intervention for youth who have
been identified as experimenting with alcohol and other drugs. A guidance counselor calls the
prevention specialist and requests information about a group participant. Disclosing this information
would violate which principle in the prevention code of ethics?
A. Nature of services
B. Integrity
C. Nondiscrimination
D. Confidentiality
- correct answer Confidentiality
A prevention specialist provides life skills classes at a local school. They asked by the principal to lead
group therapy sessions for children of alcoholics while the guidance counselor is on leave. The
prevention specialist should:
A. respectfully refuse.
B. accept the challenge.
,C. volunteer to co-facilitate.
D. accept but provide life skills classes instead of therapy.
- correct answer Respectfully refuse
Qualitative data is often collected through key informant interviews, focus groups, listening sessions,
and:
A. town hall meetings.
B. newspaper articles.
C. arrest reports.
D. hospital records.
- correct answer a. town hall meetings
An example of a selective intervention is:
A. a classroom-based prevention program for all seventh graders in a school district in a
high risk community.
B. a skills-based program for youth from military families who have experienced many
transitions.
C. a parenting program open to all residents in a rural town hosted by a local church.
D. a media campaign targeting Latino youth in a big city.
- correct answer a skills-based program for youth from military families who have experienced many
transitions
The first step in developing community prevention strategies is:
a. assessment
b. capacity building
c. planning
d. implementation
- correct answer assessment
Determining Community Readiness is best accomplished at what stage of the prevention process?
- correct answer assessment
,A prevention specialist who is facilitating a Community Prevention Coalition must tailor their facilitation
style to the group's blend of bylaws, ground rules, people, and:
a. consultants
b. funding
c. history
d. strategies
- correct answer history
An example of a resiliency factor would be:
- correct answer Strong bond with family and school success
Methamphetamine is particularly dangerous because:
- correct answer It can be injected, smoked, snorted or taken orally
When facilitating a Community Prevention Coalition planning group, a prevention specialist should NOT:
a. listen and observe
b. prevent and manage conflict
c. encourage participation
d. insert personal opinions
- correct answer insert personal opinions
Which of the following MOST influences a child's decision to use alcohol and other drugs?
a. laws
b. peers
c. media
d. parents
- correct answer parents
Strategies that aim to enhance individuals' ability to develop competence, a positive sense of self-
esteem, mastery, well-being, social inclusion, and strength their ability to cope with adversity are:
, a. mental health promotion interventions
b. universal preventive interventions
c. selective preventive interventions
d. indicated preventive interventions
- correct answer mental health promotion interventions
The MOST important factor in effective community prevention programming is:
a. Targeting specific areas
b. Offering viable alternatives
c. Having board bases of support and involvement
d. focusing on younger populations
- correct answer Having board bases of support and involvement
The preferred point of intervention in the Hispanic community is the:
a. School
b. Family
c. Church
d. Community Center
- correct answer Family
What three natural narcotics are derived from the opium poppy?
a. Opium, morphine and codeine
b. morphine, opium, Xanax
c. Codeine, methadone and opium
d. Morphine, angel dust, codeine
- correct answer Opium, morphine and codeine
When obtaining support of community members to deal with a substance use/misuse issue, it is
important to recruit people who
(A) need to be convinced that the substance use/misuse issue is a problem.
answers CPS Materials Prevention Training 2026\2027
A+ Grade
A community coalition is advocating for an ordinance to ban the sale of alcohol at the annual fall family
festival. This is an example of:
A. an alternative activity strategy.
B. a family intervention strategy.
C. an environmental strategy.
D. an enforcement strategy.
- correct answer an environmental strategy
A prevention specialist's agency conducts a school-based indicated intervention for youth who have
been identified as experimenting with alcohol and other drugs. A guidance counselor calls the
prevention specialist and requests information about a group participant. Disclosing this information
would violate which principle in the prevention code of ethics?
A. Nature of services
B. Integrity
C. Nondiscrimination
D. Confidentiality
- correct answer Confidentiality
A prevention specialist provides life skills classes at a local school. They asked by the principal to lead
group therapy sessions for children of alcoholics while the guidance counselor is on leave. The
prevention specialist should:
A. respectfully refuse.
B. accept the challenge.
,C. volunteer to co-facilitate.
D. accept but provide life skills classes instead of therapy.
- correct answer Respectfully refuse
Qualitative data is often collected through key informant interviews, focus groups, listening sessions,
and:
A. town hall meetings.
B. newspaper articles.
C. arrest reports.
D. hospital records.
- correct answer a. town hall meetings
An example of a selective intervention is:
A. a classroom-based prevention program for all seventh graders in a school district in a
high risk community.
B. a skills-based program for youth from military families who have experienced many
transitions.
C. a parenting program open to all residents in a rural town hosted by a local church.
D. a media campaign targeting Latino youth in a big city.
- correct answer a skills-based program for youth from military families who have experienced many
transitions
The first step in developing community prevention strategies is:
a. assessment
b. capacity building
c. planning
d. implementation
- correct answer assessment
Determining Community Readiness is best accomplished at what stage of the prevention process?
- correct answer assessment
,A prevention specialist who is facilitating a Community Prevention Coalition must tailor their facilitation
style to the group's blend of bylaws, ground rules, people, and:
a. consultants
b. funding
c. history
d. strategies
- correct answer history
An example of a resiliency factor would be:
- correct answer Strong bond with family and school success
Methamphetamine is particularly dangerous because:
- correct answer It can be injected, smoked, snorted or taken orally
When facilitating a Community Prevention Coalition planning group, a prevention specialist should NOT:
a. listen and observe
b. prevent and manage conflict
c. encourage participation
d. insert personal opinions
- correct answer insert personal opinions
Which of the following MOST influences a child's decision to use alcohol and other drugs?
a. laws
b. peers
c. media
d. parents
- correct answer parents
Strategies that aim to enhance individuals' ability to develop competence, a positive sense of self-
esteem, mastery, well-being, social inclusion, and strength their ability to cope with adversity are:
, a. mental health promotion interventions
b. universal preventive interventions
c. selective preventive interventions
d. indicated preventive interventions
- correct answer mental health promotion interventions
The MOST important factor in effective community prevention programming is:
a. Targeting specific areas
b. Offering viable alternatives
c. Having board bases of support and involvement
d. focusing on younger populations
- correct answer Having board bases of support and involvement
The preferred point of intervention in the Hispanic community is the:
a. School
b. Family
c. Church
d. Community Center
- correct answer Family
What three natural narcotics are derived from the opium poppy?
a. Opium, morphine and codeine
b. morphine, opium, Xanax
c. Codeine, methadone and opium
d. Morphine, angel dust, codeine
- correct answer Opium, morphine and codeine
When obtaining support of community members to deal with a substance use/misuse issue, it is
important to recruit people who
(A) need to be convinced that the substance use/misuse issue is a problem.
