Pre-Conference Workshops Registration
The Society for Prevention Research provides training opportunities in prevention science during pre-conference workshops scheduled for Tuesday, May 30, 2023.
– Online Registration is now open February 17, 2023. Early-bird registration deadline: before 5/2/2023
– All PC workshops require registration. Attendee registration for the May 30, 2023, Pre-Conference Workshops is a separate registration fee. View rates.
– The pre-conference workshop registration includes electronic workshop handouts and morning and afternoon coffee breaks.
– To be eligible for member registration rates, 2023 membership dues must be current at the time you register. You may join/renew your membership AND register for the conference at the same time.
– Click on (learn more) to view the full description for each workshop.
- PC Workshop I (FULL-DAY), 5/30/2023, 8:30am–5:00pm, EST: Introduction to Causal Inference (To register select: Causal) Registration rates for PC Workshops I – II are discounted by approx. 75%. Funding for the discounted rate is underwritten by the NIH, Office of Disease Prevention (learn more)
- PC Workshop II (FULL-DAY), 5/30/2023, 8:30am–5:00pm, EST: Meta-Analysis Methods for Prevention Scientists: Tools for Understanding and Investigating Variation in Prevention Intervention Effects. (To register select: Meta-Analysis) Registration rates for PC Workshops I – II are discounted by approx. 75%. Funding for the discounted rate is underwritten by the NIH, Office of Disease Prevention (learn more)
- PC Workshop III (FULL-DAY), 5/30/2023, 8:30am–5:00pm, EST: Including Youth Voice to Increase Equity in Research: Strategies and Toolkits (To register select: Youth Voice) (learn more)
- PC Workshop IV (HALF-DAY), 5/30/2023, 1:00pm–4:30pm, EST: Balancing Scientific and Community Knowledge to Mobilize Communities in Equitable Implementation for Prevention and Wellness: learning through the Promoting Community Conversations About Research to End Suicide (PC CARES) Model (To register select: Mobilize Communities) (learn more)
- PC Workshop V (FULL-DAY), 5/30/2023, 8:30am–5:00pm, EST: IES Funding Opportunities and Resources to Advance Equity in Education Research and Practice (To register select: IES Funding) (learn more)
Pre-conference Workshop Registration Rates
Registration Type | Before 5/2/2023: Early Bird | 5/3 through 5/29/2023 | 5/30 through 6/3/2023: Onsite |
PC Workshops I and II (full-day), Discounted rate underwritten by NIH/Office of Disease Prevention, Member and Non-Member | $40 | $45 | $50 |
PC Workshops I and II (full-day), Discounted rate underwritten by NIH/Office of Disease Prevention, Student (Member and Non-Member) | $20 | $25 | $32 |
PC Workshop III (full-day), Member and Non-Member | $150 | $175 | $200 |
PC Workshop III (full-day), Student (Member and Non-Member) | $75 | $100 | $125 |
PC Workshop IV (half-day), Member and Non-Member | $115 | $145 | $180 |
PC Workshop IV (half-day), Student (Member and Non-Member) | $60 | $75 | $95 |
PC Workshop V (half-day), Member and Non-Member | Free | Free | Free |
PC Workshop V (half-day), Student (Member and Non-Member) | Free | Free | Free |
Pre-Conference Workshop I (full-day)
Tuesday, 5/30/2023, 8:30am–5:00pm, EST
Introduction to Causal Inference (To register select: Causal)
Underwritten by the NIH, Office of Disease Prevention
Presenter and Organizer
Meghan K. Cain, PhD, StataCorp, LLC
Purpose, including specific learning objectives:
- Participants will understand the theory behind the potential outcomes framework for estimating treatment effects in observational data.
- Participants will become familiar with alternative treatment-effect estimators, including their assumptions and when to use what.
- Participants will learn how to use Stata to obtain causal inference parameters, interpret their results, and obtain diagnostics to validate model assumptions.
Target Audience: Anyone interested in making causal inferences from observational data who have a background in linear regression.
Pre-Conference Workshop II (full-day)
Tuesday, 5/30/2023, 8:30am–5:00pm, EST
Meta-Analysis Methods for Prevention Scientists: Tools for Understanding and Investigating Variation in Prevention Intervention Effects. (To register select: Meta-Analysis)
Organizer and Primary Contact
Nicholas J. Parr, PhD, MPH, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Presenters: Nicholas J. Parr, PhD, MPH, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Maria L. Schweer-Collins, PhD, University of Oregon, Sean Grant, DPhil, MSc, University of Oregon, Emily E. Tanner-Smith, PhD, University of Oregon
Purpose of Workshop
The effectiveness of a prevention policy, program, or intervention (“intervention”) is typically investigated in multiple, often many, independent studies. As a body of evidence accrues, systematic reviews and meta-analyses become important tools for drawing overall conclusions about the effectiveness of the intervention. These conclusions are often derived from pooling or synthesizing estimates of the intervention’s effectiveness from all available studies. The result—an estimate of the intervention’s effect on average—is routinely reported as the key finding of a meta-analysis, and subsequently may inform future prevention research, practice, and decision-making. An intervention’s average effect estimate is not the only insight produced by a meta-analysis, however, and just as with a mean value in any study, understanding the extent of variation among individuals (or individual studies) that make up the average is equally important to the average itself.
Target Audience
Topics discussed in this workshop will be useful for prevention scientists at all career stages. Content will be accessible to researchers with prior experience conducting systematic reviews and meta-analyses, investigators designing new studies informed by existing research, and practitioners and decision-makers tasked with implementing the findings of systematic reviews.
Pre-Conference Workshop III (full-day)
Tuesday, 5/30/2023, 8:30am–5:00pm, EST
Including Youth Voice to Increase Equity in Research: Strategies and Toolkits (To register select: Youth Voice)
Organizers and Presenters:
- Laura Clary, organizer and presenter: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Tamar Mendelson: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Joni Holifield: HeartSmiles LLC
- Katrina Brooks: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,
- Krishna Johnson, organizer and presenter: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,
- Don McClain: Center for Adolescent Health Youth Advisory Board, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public; Health and HeartSmiles, LLC,
- Jada Johnson: Center for Adolescent Health Youth Advisory Board, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public; Health and HeartSmiles, LLC
- Zion Pittman: President of Center for Adolescent Health Youth Advisory Board, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public; Health and HeartSmiles, LLC
Purpose of the workshop: To provide training for prevention researchers in how to include and collaborate with young people in all phases of the research process, including generating and refining research ideas, building community collaborations, collecting qualitative or quantitative data, co-leading project interventions, and disseminating findings. The workshop will focus on how to equitably partner with adolescents and emerging adults in the community, with an emphasis on youth from marginalized groups and those from under-resourced urban communities and will address ethical and cultural issues relevant to these partnerships.
Presenters will include researchers, a youth-serving provider, and young people participating in current research collaborations to provide multiple perspectives on how to engage meaningfully in this work.
Target workshop audience:
The target audience for the workshop are researchers who:
- study topics related to adolescents and young adults
- are interested in incorporating a diverse range of community youth voices and perspectives into their research
- would like to develop a formal or informal partnership with community youth/young adults.
- would like to learn how youth participation in research can also benefit the youth involved and their broader community
Pre-Conference Workshop IV (half-day)
Tuesday, 5/30/2023, 1:00pm–4:30pm, EST
Balancing Scientific and Community Knowledge to Mobilize Communities in Equitable Implementation for Prevention and Wellness: learning through the Promoting Community Conversations About Research to End Suicide (PC CARES) Model (To register select: Mobilize Communities)
Organizers and Presenters:
Lauren White, MPH, MSW, LLMSW; University of Michigan
Caroline Bec, MSc, McGill University
Lisa Wexler, Ph.D., MSW, University of Michigan
Purpose of the workshop, including specific learning objectives. In other words, what new skills and knowledge will the attendees take away?
This workshop will introduce attendees to key tenets of our participatory research approach, which includes critical pedagogy, adult learning theory, and theories of community change. These ideas coalesce to urge scientists to integrate community members into their research for strategic and collaborative implementation of prevention and wellness initiatives. At the end of this workshop, attendees will be able to:
- Identify key gaps in the literature about implementation of prevention interventions in community settings and connect the potential of participatory research approaches to address these gaps.
- Describe underlying prevention and critical education theories that support community-led, research informed implementation approaches.
- Understand the value of community-engaged and participatory implementation processes for addressing health inequities with examples from remote Alaska Native communities.
- Consider the antiracist implications of power-sharing processes in knowledge development and implementation activities.
- Define potential areas of tension and response when engaging in community-based and participatory research
Target workshop audience, including the background attendees should have.
Target audience is SPR Attendees who are interested in understanding how critical education and participatory methods can offer a way to translate research for self-determined implementation of evidence-based practices. Such an approach balances scientific and community knowledge to mobilize communities for equitable prevention and wellness. Participants will learn through an experiential example, using a flexible approach designed to mobilize community members for local co-creation of evidence-informed prevention strategies in rural Alaska. Prevention practitioners and researchers focused on many different health outcomes including suicide, substance abuse, domestic violence, and others are most welcome.
Pre-Conference Workshop V (full-day)
Tuesday, May 31, 2022, 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
IES Funding Opportunities and Resources to Advance Equity in Education Research and Practice
Organizer
Emily J. Doolittle, Ph.D., Team Lead for Social Behavioral Research in the National Center for Education Research (NCER), Institute of Education Sciences (IES), U.S. Department of Education.
Presenters
Emily J. Doolittle, Ph.D., Team Lead for Social Behavioral Research in the National Center for Education Research (NCER), Institute of Education Sciences (IES), U.S. Department of Education.
Jacquelyn A. Buckley, Ph.D., Team Lead for Disability Research in the National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER), Institute of Education Sciences (IES), U.S. Department of Education.
Katherine A. Taylor, Ph.D., Education Research Analyst in the National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER), Institute of Education Sciences (IES), U.S. Department of Education.
Elise M. Christopher, Ph.D., Education Statistician in the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Institute of Education Sciences (IES), U.S. Department of Education
Workshop Purpose
This workshop will provide instruction and advice on writing a successful grant application to IES’ Education Research Grants Program (ALN 84.305A) and Special Education Research Grants Program (ALN 84.324A). These programs are designed to support rigorous research that helps solve significant education problems and that is relevant to the teaching and learning needs of the diverse population of the United States. The workshop will also describe the wide range of IES resources available to researchers (see https://ies.ed.gov/resourcesforresearchers.asp). IES is best known for an emphasis on rigorous, high-quality education research with strong internal validity. IES also has a strong emphasis on external validity to address the diverse needs of educators and students in the United States.