Advocacy
for Prevention Science
Community
Monitoring Systems
Standards
of Evidence
Braided
Funding
Advocacy
for Prevention Science
Advocacy
for Prevention Science describes scientific advances and principles which form
a foundation for advocacy for prevention science. The document provides a list
of specific actions and principles which SPR’s board agrees are worthy of
public policy advocacy. This document, produced by SPR’s newly reconstituted
Advocacy Committee chaired by Bob Saltz, and initiated by SPR’s incoming
president, Tony Biglan, provides guidance to the SPR board and SPR members as
the Society seeks to become more actively involved in education and discussion
with policy makers toward the achievement of SPR’s mission.
Advocacy
for Prevention Science (click
here for the full document)
Community
Monitoring Systems
The
Board of the Society for Prevention Research has focused on the monitoring of
the well-being of children and adolescents as one of its strategic goals. With
funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the National Institutes of
Health that is coordinated through the National Science Foundation, SPR has been
conducting a CMS project, led by Anthony Biglan, along with Patricia Mrazek and
David Hawkins.
Standards
of Evidence
The
Society for Prevention Research is committed to
the advancement of science-based prevention programs
and policies through empirical research. Increasingly,
decision-makers and prevention service providers
seek tested and efficacious or effective programs
and policies for possible implementation. However,
until now, somewhat different standards have been
used by different organizations seeking to identify
and list programs and policies that have been tested
and shown to be efficacious or effective. As part
of SPR's strategic plan, in 2003, the SPR Board
of Directors appointed a committee of prevention
scientists, chaired by Brian Flay, to determine
the requisite criteria that must be met for preventive
interventions to be judged tested and efficacious
or tested and effective. The Standards of Evidence
developed by this committee have been unanimously
adopted by the Board of Directors of SPR on April
12, 2004, as the standards which SPR asserts should
be met if a program or policy is to be called tested
and efficacious or tested and effective.
- Standards
of Evidence: Criteria for Efficacy, Effectiveness and Dissemination (click
here for full document)
- The
journal article explicating SPR’s Standards
of Evidence and the reasoning behind those standards
has been accepted for publication in Prevention
Science. The article, written collectively by
SPR’s committee on standards of evidence
chaired by Brian Flay, is called Standards of
Evidence:Criteria for Efficacy, Effectiveness
and Dissemination, by Flay et al. The full article
is now available on
line here
and appears in print in the September, 2005 issue
of Prevention Science.
Braided
Funding
A
Case for Braided Prevention Research and Service Funding was developed by an SPR
task force chaired by David Olds. This document makes a strong case for the need
for effectiveness trials and dissemination research to further the advances of
prevention science. Further, it explains why and how collaborative funding across
institutes that fund research and agencies that provide funding for preventive
services could advance both knowledge regarding effective preventive interventions
and the provision of evidence based preventive services at a broader scale.
A Case for Braided Prevention Research and Service Funding
(click here for full document)
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