In 2021, the Society for Prevention Research will provide training opportunities in prevention science during pre- and post-conference workshops to be scheduled during June, July, and August.
All workshops require registration.
Underwritten by NIH, Office of Disease Prevention
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
PRE-CONFERENCE Workshop IV (one full-day)
Date: Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Time: 11:00 am – 7:00 pm Eastern
Practical Strategies to Reducing Racial Disparities in Mental Health Access and Outcomes in Prevention Science (To register select: Mental Health) (view more)
POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
POST-CONFERENCE Workshop I (two half-days)
Dates: Tuesday, July 13 and Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Time: 12:00 pm – 3:30 pm Eastern
Mobilizing Knowledge and Strategies from Prevention Science in Real-World and Policy Contexts (To register select: Mobilizing) (view more)
POST-CONFERENCE Workshop II (two half -days)
Dates: Wednesday, August 4 and Thursday, August 5, 2021
Time: 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm Eastern
Translating Prevention Science into Action: A Roadmap to Successful Prevention Researcher-State Agency-Community Collaborations (To register select: Translating) ((view more)
POST-CONFERENCE Workshop III (two half-days)
Dates: Tuesday, August 10 and Wednesday, August 11, 2021
Time: 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Eastern
Towards a Queer Prevention Science: Strategies for Meaningfully and Ethically Including LGBTQ+ People in Prevention Science Research and Interventions (To register select: LGBTQ+) (view more)
Pre-Conference Workshop IV (one-full day)
Date: Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Time: 11:00 am – 7:00 pm Eastern
Practical Strategies to Reducing Racial Disparities in Mental Health Access and Outcomes in Prevention Science (To register select: Mental Health)
Description:
Prevention science aims to prevent or alleviate the negative consequences of illness, including psychiatric illness, through cutting-edge research and clinical and public health interventions. Despite this goal, the field, as with health science more broadly, continues to perpetuate racial oppression and health disparities by utilizing approaches to research, teaching, clinical training and supervision, and recruitment and evaluation of faculty and graduate students that center the White experience, exclude or minimize the BIPOC experience, and uphold White Supremacist culture. This workshop will begin by providing a framework to help the audience understand the overarching ways that prevention science perpetuates racism, the concrete steps that individuals and departments can take to promote an anti-racist approach to prevention science, and the ways that doing so can prevent health disparities. Many of the talks included in this workshop focus on “upstream” prevention efforts that are needed to restructure the foundational components of our field and better position us as researchers, educators, and clinicians to reduce and prevent health disparities. Creating an anti-racist prevention science requires that we target multiple distinct, yet inherently connected, areas of prevention science. Thus, each talk in this workshop covers a different domain of prevention science, including teaching, research, supervision of clinical interventions, and support of BIPOC faculty and graduate students. The audience will have opportunities to reflect on their own anti-racist practices and will learn concrete skills for how to infuse anti-racism into each of these domains. In turn, these anti-racist approaches should impact the ways that research and clinical work are conducted, such that our work better serves BIPOC communities and, in turn, reduces health disparities and suffering. These approaches also aim to reverse the common trend of “reacting” to health disparities, often in a time-limited way that does not promote systemic change. In sum, this workshop will offer multidimensional ways to target factors that produce health disparities early on to prevent harm.
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Post-Conference Workshop I (two half-days)
Dates: Tuesday, July 13 and Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Time: 12:00 pm – 3:30 pm Eastern
Mobilizing Knowledge and Strategies from Prevention Science in Real-World and Policy Contexts (To register select: Mobilizing)
Organizers and Facilitators:
Diana Fishbein, Ph. D.
Co-Director, National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives ▪ Director, Translational Neuro-Prevention Research Program, FPG Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina ▪ Senior Research Faculty, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University
Dan Edwards, Ph.D.
Sr. Director, Evidence-Based Associates
Presenters:
William Aldridge, Ph.D.
Director, The Impact Center at FPG & Senior Implementation Specialist ▪ FPG Child Development Institute ▪ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Adjunct Assistant Professor ▪ Health Policy & Management ▪ UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Board of Directors ▪ National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives
Steering Committee, Coalition for the Promotion of Behavioral Health
Tony Biglan, Ph.D.
Senior Researcher
Oregon Research Institute
President Values to Action
Board of Directors ▪ National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives
Brian Bumbarger, Ph.D., ME.D.
Founding Partner/CEO
Science, Systems & Communities Consulting
Adjunct Research Fellow, Griffith University Institute of Criminology
Visiting Research Associate, Colorado State University Prevention Research Center
Steering Committee, Coalition for the Promotion of Behavioral Health
Robin Jenkins, Ph.D.
Associate Director, The Impact Center at FPG & Senior Implementation Specialist ▪ FPG Child Development Institute ▪ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Board of Directors ▪ National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives
Matej Košir, Ph.D.
Director, Institute for Research and Development (UTRIP)
John Roman, Ph.D.
Co-Director, National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives
Senior Fellow, NORC, University of Chicago
Description:
Imbedding a culture of prevention into the mindsets of the public and the decision-making process of policymakers requires that scientists systematically convey the relevance and importance of prevention; doing so will reduce the burden of phenomena we aim to prevent, minimize errors, lower costs, narrow disparities and inequities, and improve outcomes for all people of all backgrounds and at all life stages. We need an empirically tested science to practice and policy protocol for experts, practitioners, and decision-makers across fields and sectors to increase public understanding of prevention and motivate people to demand equitable systems and a culture that supports it. To accomplish this goal, it is essential that scientists are comfortable in this “end-stage”—science advocacy—translational role. A process and vehicle must be in place to allow for clear articulation of the role research can play in the co-creation of practical prevention strategies, hand-in-hand with community stakeholders, and with a direct line to policymakers.
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Post-Conference Workshop II (two half -days)
Dates: Wednesday, August 4 and Thursday, August 5, 2021
Time: 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm Eastern
Translating Prevention Science into Action: A Roadmap to Successful Prevention Researcher-State Agency-Community Collaborations (To register select: Translating)
Organizer and Presenter:
Brittany Cooper, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Human Development
Director, Prevention Science Graduate Program
Washington State University
Presenters:
Louise Parker, PhD
Professor, Department of Human Development
Washington State University
Gitanjali Shrestha, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, IMPACT Research Lab
Department of Human Development
Washington State University
Sarah Mariani, Certified Prevention Professional (CPP)
Section Manager
Substance Use Disorder Prevention & Mental Health Promotion Section
Washington State Health Care Authority, Division of Behavioral Health & Recovery
Erin Kelly, DrPH, MA
Director of Strategy & Operations, Research Associate
Center for the Study & Prevention of Violence
University of Colorado Boulder
Marc Morgan
Communities That Care Manager
Violence and Injury Prevention — Mental Health Promotion Branch
Prevention Services Division
Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment
Jochebed Gayles, PhD
Assistant Research Professor, Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center
Evaluation Analyst, Evidence-based Prevention and Intervention Support Center
Pennsylvania State University
Roger Spaw
Evidence-Based Practices Project Manager
Evidence-based Prevention and Intervention Support Center
Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center
Pennsylvania State University
Geoff Kolchin
Program Manager
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency
Description:
The Society for Prevention Research is “dedicated to advancing scientific investigation on the etiology and prevention of social, physical and mental health, and academic problems and on the translation of that information to promote health and well-being [emphasis added].” This call for translating science into action comes not only from prevention researchers, but also from representatives from those public systems – especially at the state level – whose day-to-day job it is to effectively use taxpayer dollars to provide services that improve youth, family, and community health and well-being. Given our common goals, it only makes sense for prevention researchers, state agency leaders, and community providers to work together to bring science to bear on our most pressing public health problems. The value of these collaborations has been highlighted in two recent SPR Mapping Advances in Prevention Science Task Forces (Fagan et al., 2019; Leadbeater, 2018). Fortunately, numerous models/frameworks have recently emerged to help identify and guide the structural and procedural approaches to successful, mutually beneficial, research-practice-policy partnerships. However, many of these models/frameworks are narrowly focused within specific systems (e.g., education, child welfare), rather than designed to generalize across systems. Because prevention is housed within and across multiple public systems, this workshop aims to distill from the academic literature and through three case study examples across three states, the common elements needed to lay the groundwork for creating and maintaining successful prevention researcher-state agency-community collaborations.
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Post-Conference Workshop III (two half -days)
Dates: Tuesday, August 10 and Wednesday, August 11, 2021
Time: 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Eastern
Towards a Queer Prevention Science: Strategies for Meaningfully and Ethically Including LGBTQ+ People in Prevention Science Research and Interventions (To register select: LGBTQ+)
Organizer and Presenter:
Robert Marx, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Child and Adolescent Development
San José State University
Presenters:
Jessica N. Fish, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Family Science
School of Public Health
University of Maryland
Hardian Thamrin, MA
Doctoral Student
Department of Psychology
Arizona State University
Allen B. Mallory, PhD
Presidential Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Human Sciences
College of Education and Human Ecology
The Ohio State University
Description:
Recent research has demonstrated the dearth of prevention strategies developed for and implemented with sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth (Coulter et al., 2019) and older adults (Fredricksen-Goldsen et al., 2017), including those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ+). At the same time, research on prevention programs has frequently failed to consider the differential outcomes for SGM participants, even though health disparities are well documented. As the field continues to focus on the importance of context and achieving health equity, prevention scientists are uniquely positioned to develop, implement, and evaluate interventions that target–or at minimum include and measure–SGM individuals, which will aid in the examination of differential experiences within universal prevention programs. Moreover, it is important that this work acknowledges the ways in which SGM individuals’ multiple identities, including race, ethnicity, and class, combine to create unique risk and protective factors.
In order to lead the field forward, prevention scientists need a strong understanding of the contextual factors that contribute to SGM-related health disparities, culturally competent methods for enhancing participating of SGM individuals their research, and nuanced approaches to study design that more comprehensively assess factors relevant to the wellbeing SGM people. To that end, this workshop will provide prevention scientists with the foundational knowledge to begin to meaningfully and ethically include SGM individuals in their research and interventions. The workshop will begin with a strong theoretical grounding in the contexts and environments that shape SGM individuals’ experiences and observed health disparities. This foundation will inform the methodological discussions to follow, which will center on research design, including the ethical recruitment of SGM participants, the selection of appropriate demographic measures that more fully capture SGM identities, and the inclusion of measures that assess for risk and protective factors and outcomes conceptually rooted in minority stress theory. We will also overview key considerations related to adaptation and design of interventions serving SGM populations. Discussion activities throughout the workshop will be interlinked and will guide participants through real-world applications of workshop topics including study recruitment and measure selection.
It is our aim that participants leave this workshop informed and energized, ready to take on the important task of attending to the diversity of SGM populations and designing and implementing interventions that increase health equity for SGM individuals.
Specific Learning Objectives:
This workshop will increase prevention scientists’ capacity to:
- Use appropriate language to describe SGM identities and the heterogeneity of experiences within this population.
- Incorporate minority stress theory, resilience, intersectionality, and other foundational frameworks into their intervention and research design.
- Include SGM participants in research in ways that affirm identities and illuminate the nuance of their experiences.
- Engage in research design that employs ethical recruitment techniques, includes appropriate demographic measures, and operationalizes key constructs informed by theory.
Target Audience:
This workshop is geared towards prevention scientists at all career stages who want to deepen their understanding of SGM issues, capture SGM populations’ experiences more fully and accurately, and gain an awareness of best practices for starting or continuing this important work.
Materials for Audience:
Participants will receive:
- a glossary and primer on pertinent terms for working with SGM populations
- an annotated bibliography of relevant theoretical and methodological articles
- a directory of SGM-focused researchers and students describing their specific areas of research for reference and potential consultation and/or collaboration
- an aggregated list of funding opportunities and NIH priorities related to SGM populations
Presenters:
Dr. Robert Marx is a child and adolescent development scholar whose community-engaged research and practice focus on reframing dominant visions of queer young people, so that they are no longer viewed as deviant, damaged, or at-risk, but rather as the gifted, complex people they are. He deploys a variety of qualitative and quantitative research methods, including critical youth participatory action research and meta-analysis, to better understand and promote marginalized youth’s development. As a former high school English teacher, he approaches this work from the intersection of educational studies, developmental psychology, and critical pedagogy, and his work encourages young people to see themselves as producers of knowledge and as change agents. His current work focuses on the development of resilience and sources of strength for LGBTQIA+ youth of color and on gender and sexuality alliances (GSAs) as a site for intervention and prevention for queer adolescents.
Dr. Jessica Fish is a human development and family science scholar whose research focuses on the health and well-being of sexual and gender minority (i.e., lesbian/gay, bisexual, and transgender) people and their families. Broadly, Dr. Fish studies the sociocultural and interpersonal factors that shape the development and health of sexual and gender minority youth and adults. Her overarching goal is to identify modifiable factors that contribute to sexual and gender minority health disparities in order to inform developmentally-sensitive policies, programs, and prevention strategies that promote the health of sexual and gender minority people across the life course.
Hardian Thamrin is a third-year graduate student in the Clinical Psychology program at Arizona State University, working under the mentorship of Dr. Nancy Gonzales. His interest foci are on developing, adapting and implementing feasible and scalable interventions for hard-to-reach, underserved communities, with an emphasis in ethnic minority youth, LGBTQ+ youth, and international populations. His current work includes evaluating a brief substance abuse prevention program for Title I schools, as well as examining the intersection of religion, sexual minority status, and depressive symptoms in sexual minority Latinx youth.
Dr. Allen Mallory is a presidential postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Human Sciences at The Ohio State University. His research focuses on risk and protective factors for the health and well-being of sexual and gender minority youth and adults. Specifically, he is interested in applying an intersectional lens in order to understand the diversity of experiences among sexual and gender minority populations and how these intersectional experiences shape health. Broadly, he aims to leverage his research to inform prevention, intervention, and policy in order to improve the health and well-being of SGM populations.
Outline of Workshop:
I. Introduction [August 20, 1:00-1:30]
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- Agenda and expectations for the day
- Speaker introduction: each speaker will share a brief vignette from their research to contextualize the workshop and illuminate possibilities
II. Theoretical Grounding [August 10, 1:305:00]
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- Definitions of terminology [1:30-2:00]
A. Sexual orientation
B. Gender identity and expression
C. Intersectionality
D. Understanding the variety of SGM identities and heterogeneity of experiences
2. Minority Stress Theory (Meyer, 2003) and the role of context in shaping health behavior [2:00-3:30][Case Studies 1 and 2 – hands-on discussion]
A. Health disparities for SGM individuals
B. Proximal stressors [internalized homo/transphobia, concealment of identity, rejection sensitivity]
C. Distal stressors [interpersonal prejudice and discrimination, social rejection, microaggressions, structural and institutional discrimination]
D. Describe how these processes vary across different SGM identities, and other minority identities (e.g., race/ethnicity), among gender minority populations, and intersect with other stressors tied to minority identities
3. SGM risk and resilience factors [3:30-4:30]
A. Coping strategies and social support
B. Attributes of supportive and adverse school, home, and community environments
C. Variations along racial/ethnic lines
III. Research Design [August 11, 1:00-4:30]
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- Participant recruitment and retention [1:00-2:00] [Case Study 3 – hands-on discussion]
A. Ethical recruitment of SGM individuals
B. Considerations of historical distrust, reciprocity and mutual benefit from participation
C. Appropriate incentivization
D. Practical organizational considerations (e.g., staff training, respectful language, intake forms, all gender restrooms, visible symbols showing support for community)
2. Measurement selection [2:00-3:30][Case Study 4 – hands-on discussion]
A. Accurately capturing SGM identities in quantitative and qualitative research
B. Meaningfully capturing context, risk factors, and resilience
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- Informative variables to include
- Importance of capturing environmental determinants and culturally-relevant constructs (depending on the study target population)
- Considerations for capturing intersectional experiences with SGM populations
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3. Intervention selection [3:30-4:30]
A. Describe existing prevention-related evidence-based practices and interventions for SGM individuals and remaining gaps
B. Key considerations in adapting existing interventions or developing new interventions [for example, including questions about SGM identities in interventions]
IV. Next Steps [August 11, 4:30-5:00]
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- Declaration of intentions: participants will identify immediate ways they can incorporate their knowledge into their work and will plan for longer range research projects
- Wrap up