PROmoting Schoolcommunityuniversity Partnerships to Enhance Resilience PROSPER

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Using What We Know Jennifer L. Dykstra, Ph.D.
Presented at the 8th annual Statewide
Meeting Honey Creek Resort, IA May 4-5th 2009
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OBJECTIVES

• Remind attendees of available resources
• Provide clear direction for finding the resources
• Discuss resource uses as a group
• Solicit feedback on additional resources and
  organization

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Many materials many uses

• Get grants
• Impress local funders
• Recruit for SFP
• Maintain/enhance school relationship
• Recognize team accomplishments
• Promote your team in your community

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Grant-writing Resources

• WHAT they are grant budget and text boilerplate
• WHERE to find them
• PROSPER website/community teams/ resources for
  community teams/ LC Feb 09 materials
• HOW to use them Plug local information into the
  boilerplate ? submit for !

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Grant template excerpt

• In our community, we have formed a local
  PROSPER team to make decisions and deliver
  evidence-based programs to meet the stated goal.
  The team is led by name from the county
  Extension Office. The co-leader is name,
  title from the community name School
  District. The other members of the team
  represent community stakeholders county mental
  health representatives, substance abuse agency,
  school personnel, parents and youth, youth
  ministers or probation officers.
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• The collaboration between the Extension Office
  and the community school is particularly
  important because of the focus that each agency
  places on positive youth development. If the
  grantor requires other representation, add the
  necessary representatives to the team. Along
  with the other community partners represented,
  the team works together on the promotion and
  implementation of evidence-based programs.
  Program facilitators and teachers have been
  identified by the team and trained to deliver the
  programs effectively.

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WHY use grant-writing resources?

• - Get grants
• Gain grant-writing experience
• Articulate meaningfulness of PROSPER

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Presentations

• WHAT they are Power point presentations
  developed at PROSPER central for various
  audiences
• WHERE to find them
• PROSPER website/Whats New/Meeting Archive
• OR search presentations
• HOW to use them look at titles or search to
  find one that meets your needs ? download

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Sample Results

• Slower Substance Use Initiation

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WHY use presentations?

• In presentations of your own
• Potential funders
• SFP recruiting
• End-of-year celebrations

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Observation Data

• WHAT they are data on SFP fidelity and
  facilitators
• WHERE to find them observation forms, PROSPER
  central
• HOW to use them
• Quick check/scan after session
• Work with PC
• Request analyses from PROSPER central

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SFP Fidelity Sample Graph
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WHY use observation data?

• To impress potential funders
• To provide feedback to facilitators
• To make decisions about facilitators
• For end-of-year celebrations

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School Reports

• WHAT they are Trend and recent data for 2
  cohorts
• WHERE to find them
• Superintendents office and PROSPER Central
• HOW to use them
• with permission, copy charts or summarize in
  paragraph form

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Sample of School Reports
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WHY use school reports?

• - Show community needs to be addressed by
  PROSPER to potential funders
• - Demonstrate PROSPER successes for recruitment
  or to impress potential funders

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Research Articles

• WHAT they are published PROSPER papers
• WHERE to find them PROSPER website/ research
  record
• HOW to use them Click for abstract request
  full text from PROSPER central

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Sample Research Finding

• Thanks, in part, to high-quality promotional
  materials and the availability of technical
  assistance, PROSPER teams are able to recruit for
  a family-based prevention program at rates much
  higher than typical.
• From Spoth, R., Clair, S., Greenberg, M.,
  Redmond, C., Shin, C. (2007). Toward
  Dissemination of Evidence-Based Family
  Interventions Maintenance of Community-Based
  Partnership Recruitment Results and Associated
  Factors. Journal of Family Psychology, 21, 137
  146.

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WHY use research articles?

• - References for grants
• - Selected quotations or findings for
  presentations

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Human Resources

• WHAT is it Other PROSPER people
• PCs
• TLs
• Researchers
• WHERE to find them email, phone, LCs, statewide
  meetings
• HOW to use them Share ideas (fundraising,
  recruiting, team member engagement)

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Miscellaneous Resources

• WHAT they are Photos
• WHERE they are PROSPER website/Whats New and
  at PROSPER central
• HOW to use them
• In articles/press releases
• In team newsletters
• In emails to SFP participants
• In SFP recruitment materials

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Miscellaneous Resources (2)

• WHAT it is Videos
• WHERE to find them PROSPER website/ Whats New
  or by request from PROSPER central
• HOW to use them
• SFP recruitment
• Incorporate into presentations for funders

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Miscellaneous Resources (3)

• WHAT it is Newsletters
• WHERE to find them PROSPER website/Whats
  New/Newsletter Archive
• HOW to use them Find the newsletter you want
  and download it!

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Miscellaneous Resources (4)

• WHAT it is PROSPER logo
• WHERE to find it
• PROSPER website/community teams/working PROSPER
  production document
• HOW to use it Use the appropriate logo to
  credit/identify PROSPER materials

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• Is anything missing?

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PROSPER is a collaboration among prevention
research groups, Cooperative Extension Systems,
schools, and communities in Iowa and
Pennsylvania, evolving from two decades of
community partnership-based research funded by
the National Institutes of Health.
Iowa State University Richard Spoth, Project
Director University Research Team
Cleve
Redmond, Co-Project Director
Chungyeol Shin, Investigator Scott Clair,
Investigator Lisa Schainker, PROSPER
Scientist Jane Todey, PROSPER Field Team
Director Jennifer Dykstra, PROSPER
Post-Doc Prevention Coordinator Team Marilyn
Bode Eugenia Hanlon Jim Meek Anthony
Santiago Other Key Staff Steve Becker, Research
Associate Jessica Clem, Project Manager Shirley
Huck, Data Unit Director Janet Melby, Coding
Unit Director Catherine Webb, Project Assistant
Pennsylvania State University Mark Greenberg,
Project Director University Research Team Mark
Feinberg, Co-Project Director Daniel Perkins,
Investigator Claudia Mincemoyer,
Investigator Janet Welsh, PROSPER Field Team
Director Prevention Coordinator Team Elaine
Berrena Brian Bumbarger Melissa
Tomascik Christine Tomascik Orson Other Key
Staff Laura Burghard, Project Assistant Lesley
Johnson, Graduate Student Melissa Lippold,
Graduate Student Lisa White, Data Collection
Manager Salem Wolk, Graduate Student
The PROSPER Project is Funded by the National
Institute on Drug Abuse Grant DA013709 Addition
al funding support has been provided
by National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and
Alcoholism The Annie E. Casey Foundation National
Institute of Mental Health
PROSPER Overview and Orientation
Guide Members of the PROSPER Partnership
Group
Human Interaction Research Institute Tom Backer,
Co-Investigator