[ECPN] Grand Opportunity Initiative of NIH

[Susan Renes]

I would love the opportunity to participate. I have access to several Alaska
Native villages in rural Alaska with my position here at the University of
Alaska Fairbanks, and they could provide interesting populations to include
in the project.

Susan L. Renes, Ph.D. (Sue)
Assistant Professor, Counseling Program
School of Education
University of Alaska Fairbanks
PO Box 756480
Fairbanks, Alaska  99775-6480
Phone: 907-474-7696
Fax: 907-474-5451
slrenes at alaska.edu

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:57 PM, DEEJAY GARRINGO <dj at preventionresearch.org
> 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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