Informed Partnerships

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Informed Partnerships

• Effectively Tapping NPL Resources

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Overview

• Role
• Responsibilities
• Resources
• Relationships
• Examples

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What do NPLs do?
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NPL Role

• National Program Leaders carry out the mission of
  CSREES To advance knowledge for agriculture, the
  environment, human health and well-being, and
  communities.

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NPL Responsibilities

• Conceive, Formulate, and Direct
• Administer and Manage
• Evaluate and Assess
• Network and Collaborate

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NPL Resources

• Agricultural Food Biosecurity
• Agricultural Systems
• Animals Animal Products
• Biotechnology Genomics
• Economics Commerce

• Families, Youth Communities
• Food, Nutrition Health
• Natural Resources Environment
• Pest Management
• Plants Plant Products
• Technology Engineering

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NPL Resources

• NPL Liaisons
• Program Reviews
• Multi-State Research Projects
• Internal External Teams
• eXtension
• NRI
• Social Science Perspective

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NPL Resources

• CSREES Technology
• Web
• Breeze
• Newsletters
• Listserv
• Teleconference Bridges

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Environmental Scan
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NPL Relationships-Internal

• Partnerships Working Group
• Human Nutrition Coordinating Committee
• Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee
• One Solution

• Social Scientists Working Group
• Diversity Advisory Council
• International Council
• Portfolio Review Team
• Obesity Task Force

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NPL Relationships-External

• Committees, Working Groups, Partnerships
• FSNE Evaluation Interagency Working Group
• ERS Diet Quality Initiative Steering Committee
• Federal Interagency Task Force on Older American
  Indians
• Federal Interagency Working Group on Child Abuse
  and Neglect
• National Assembly Family Strengthening Peer
  Network

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NPL Relationships-External

• Committees, Working Groups, Partnerships
• NCI Team-Up Cancer Prevention National Steering
  Group
• Medicare Partners Coordinating Committee
• Coalition of Organizations for Disaster Education
• National Endowment for Financial Education
• Consumer Federation of America
• Defense Agencies

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NPL Relationships-External

• Committees, Working Groups, Partnerships
• 4-H Annie E. Casey Family Strengthening Awards
  Committee
• HAY-Helping Americas Youth
• NIH Nutrition Coordinating Committee
• NCI 5-A-Day Interagency Coordinating Committee
• Pediatric Obesity Research Interest Group
• 1890 Childhood Obesity Prevention Project
• Breastfeeding Promotion Consortium
• Federal Housing Partnership

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External Examples
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Medicare Education Project

• CSREES ongoing partnership with the Centers for
  Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
• Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and
  Modernization Act (MMA) 2003
• September 2004 Agreement 300K
• States were chosen on the basis of CMS
  demographic and beneficiary data NE, SD, NV, WY,
  ID
• NPL Caroline Crocoll
• www.csrees.usda.gov/nea/family/sri/family_sri_medi
  care.html

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America Saves

• Late 1990s Money 2000
• Cornell Rutgers
• Helped non-savers to catch the savings habit-save
  2000 by the year 2000
• Consumer Federation of America
• How can we use Social Marketing theory to change
  attitudes away from consumption to savings?
• America Saves
• NPL Jane Schuchardt
• www.csrees.usda.gov/nea/economics/fsll/publication
  s/amsaves_imp05.doc

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Family Strengthening

• 2004 meeting w/ National 4-H Council, National
  4-H Headquarters, A.E.C. Foundation
• Development of 4-H Annie E. Casey Family
  Strengthening Awards Program
• Eligible 4-H programs are those that
  significantly involve families especially those
  families that are disadvantaged and live in rural
  areas
• Five 15,000 awards each year (5 in 2006 5 in
  2006)
• NPLs Suzanne LeMenestrel Caroline Crocoll
• www.fourhcouncil.edu/4HFamiliesProgram.aspx

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CODE

• Following 9/11
• Coalition of Organizations for Disaster Education
• 27 National Organizations Federal Agencies
• CSREES, FEMA, Red Cross, US Geological Survey,
  National Weather Service, NOAA, DHHS, Commerce,
  Interior, Homeland Security
• EDEN
• Quarterly Meetings
• NPLs Joseph Wysocki and Caroline Crocoll
• www.disastereducation.org

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Health Promotion

• FDA Initial Listserv contact
• FDA Office of Women's Health (OWH) wants to
  expand its outreach services to include USDA
  CSREES CES Health Educators.
• Series of 40 research-based fact sheets on
  health-related issues
• Partnering opportunities, EFNEP, Human Nutrition,
  Health
• NPL Shirley Gerrior
• www.pueblo.gsa.gov/rc/f08csrees.htm

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Bio-based Fuels

• CSREES and other interested federal agencies are
  exploring opportunities to convene an experts
  workshop to bring social scientists and
  bio-economy experts together to develop a systems
  map of integrative issues and identify priorities
  to be incorporated into existing and new
  programs.
• NPLs from ECS, F4-HN, NRE, CP PA
• www.csrees.usda.gov/newsroom/impacts/05index/energ
  y_biofuels.pdf

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Contact

• NPL Liaisons
• www.csrees.usda.gov
• www.csrees.usda.gov/about/AllUnits/staff_dir_searc
  h.cfm
• Bottom Line