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The primary goal of the Practice Core is to support and strengthen transdisciplinary research at Duke University on the prevention of adolescent substance abuse. The Practice Core provides resources and expertise that contribute to developing, implementing, and disseminating prevention research. Members of the Practice Core consult and, when appropriate, collaborate with Center investigators to ensure that new programs and strategies to prevent substance abuse can be tested successfully in community and school settings.
Goals
The Practice Core has four goals:
1. To help researchers translate multi-disciplinary research and theory on regulatory processes and peer influences into new efficacy and effectiveness prevention trials.
2. To secure opportunities to test prevention hypotheses in school and community settings.
3. To help develop interventions that are ready for implementation and dissemination in real world settings.
4. T o develop, implement, and test strategies to increase the likelihood that interventions reach appropriate practitioners and can be used at scale with fidelity.
Ongoing Assistance
Core members work together to help researchers:
- Identify and secure sites and subjects to test hypotheses in school and community settings
- Gain access to public officials
- Develop strategies to secure relationships with public and private agencies
- Establish memorandums and understanding with public and private agencies about access to subjects and administrative data
- Interact with practitioners to get feedback on the feasibility of intervention strategies
- Develop implementation strategies
- Develop and implement dissemination strategies
- Design programs that can be implemented with fidelity
Practice and Policy Board
Joanne McDaniel
Chief of Staff, North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Raleigh , North Carolina
William Modzeleski
Deputy UnderSecretary, Safe and Drug-Free Schools
U.S. Department of Education, Washington , DC
Stephen Phelps, Ed.D.
President, Office of the President
Bishop O'Dowd High School, Oakland , CA
Daniel Schecter
Public Policy Consultant, Alexandria , Virginia
Flo Stein
Chief of Community Policy, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services, Raleigh , North Carolina
People
Joel B. Rosch, Ph.D, Director, Senior Research Scholar
Elizabeth J. Gifford, Ph.D., Research Scientist
Ann B. Brewster, Ph.D., Research Associate
For additional information about the Practice Core, contact Joel Rosch at jbrrosch@duke.edu.
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