[ECPN] Grand Opportunity Initiative of NIH

[Betsy J. Feldman]

Hi there,
I'd be interested in the quantitative aspects of this project. CV is  
attached.

Betsy Feldman





On May 11, 2009, at Mon, 11May, 20091:57 PM, DEEJAY GARRINGO wrote:

> Dear ECPN member:
>
> We are putting together a proposal for the Grand Opportunity  
> Initiative of NIH that would develop intervention research in the  
> nation’s highest poverty communities. As you may know, President  
> Obama has proposed the creation of 20 “Promise Neighborhoods” that  
> would be modeled after the Harlem Children’s Zone.  I believe that  
> this effort—and the needs of the many neighborhoods that will not be  
> among the 20—will be strengthened if the behavioral scientist  
> community gets significantly involved in doing intervention research  
> in these communities. We have the potential to truly translate  
> existing knowledge into broad public health benefits.
>
> Our plan involves having early career scientists funded on each of  
> the teams we will create. The idea is to enable them to get  
> experience and support in developing this work and to thereby create  
> the infrastructure for the next generation of prevention research.
>
> If you are interested in being considered as one of the people to be  
> involved, please send me your vita.  This would not require you to  
> move. You could work from you current position, provided that we  
> could work out a subcontract.
>
> This is due May 29, so if you are interested please contact me ASAP.
>
> Here is an abstract for the project:
>
>                ABSTRACT
>             This Grand Opportunity project will create the  
> infrastructure to begin research on comprehensive preventive  
> interventions in the nation’s highest poverty neighborhoods.  
> Neighborhoods of concentrated poverty are a major contributor to the  
> high levels of drug abuse, antisocial behavior, depression, academic  
> failure, and intergenerational poverty in the U.S. and are thus a  
> critical target for public health interventions. The recent  
> accumulation of evidence-based preventive interventions (IOM, 2009)  
> shows that substantial reductions in the prevalence of these  
> problems are achievable. However such changes will not be achieved  
> until existing knowledge is translated into effective interventions  
> in high poverty communities. The Obama administration has called for  
> a “Promise Neighborhood” initiative in which twenty high poverty  
> neighborhoods are helped to implement comprehensive preventive  
> interventions. However, the scientific infrastructure to support  
> such interventions and to do the research needed to evaluate them  
> and refine them does not exist. And, it is possible to assist more  
> than twenty such neighborhoods.
>             We therefore propose to create the Promise Neighborhood  
> Consortium, which will develop the infrastructure by which the  
> scientific community can assist America’s high poverty neighborhoods  
> in translating existing knowledge into widespread improvements in  
> wellbeing, including the prevention substance abuse, antisocial  
> behavior, risky sexual behavior, depression, and academic failure.  
> The Consortium will (a) build a network of neighborhood and  
> community leaders and behavioral scientists; (b) define and begin to  
> implement measures of wellbeing and risk and protective factors that  
> are fundamental to evaluating preventive intervention in  
> neighborhoods; (c) develop research on the impact of evidence-based  
> policies, programs, and practices when they are implemented in high  
> poverty communities. These activities will be supported by a state- 
> of-the-art website that networks people and organizations, obtains  
> and displays data about neighborhoods, disseminates information  
> about evidence-based interventions, advocates for research and  
> intervention in high poverty neighborhoods, and supports  
> intervention research in these neighborhoods.
>             Over two years this project will: (a) create a network  
> of high poverty neighborhoods that are linked together in systematic  
> efforts to implement and evaluate preventive interventions;  (b)  
> implement monitoring systems in these neighborhoods; and (c) develop  
> experimental evaluations of intervention research in these  
> neighborhoods that will advance the efficiency and effectiveness of  
> efforts to reduce intergenerational poverty in America.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tony
> ____________________________
> Anthony Biglan, Ph.D.
> Senior Scientist
> Oregon Research Institute
> 1715 Franklin Blvd.
> Eugene, OR 97403-1983
> Phone: 541-484-2123
> Fax: 541-484-1108
>
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Betsy J. Feldman PhD

University of California, Berkeley
Graduate School of Education
3659 Tolman Hall #1670
Berkeley, CA 94720-1670

530-758-5787 (Phone)
530-400-7869 (Phone)
510-643-3413 (Fax)




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