Summary of NPSC Accomplishments: A look back at 2017...

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Coalition Building

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• Organizational Upgrades: Restructured our organizational framework to include the formation of three new committees designed to advance our newly developed priority areas: Scientific Knowledge, Impact and Influence, & Network and Connections.  We also developed an advisory board and further established three working groups that address our areas of interest: Poverty, Violence Prevention, and Healthy Child Development.

• New Affiliates & Membership in 2017: First Focus, Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG); Institute on Violence, Abuse, and Trauma (IVAT); National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence (NPEIV); PolicyLab, & National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP).  Additionally, we joined CPAG and March for Science. We now have nearly 700 members and 55 national organizational affiliates in our Coalition.  

• Grand Coalition Initiative: Planning to convene a large-scale coalition of influential organizations with the common goal to prevent the most prevalent and costly problems that undermine healthy development and wellbeing.  Speaking with one voice will significantly enhance the effects of our outreach and bolster impacts across all problem areas; e.g., strengthening families will also improve educational outcomes.

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Public Education and Advocacy

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Increasing the Capacity of NPSC and Scientists to Advocate for Prevention

• SPR Preconference: Diana Fishbein presented on Prevention in Pediatric Primary Care: Strategies for Expanding the Reach of Family-focused Prevention Programs to Achieve Broad Public Health Impact

• SPR Roundtable Session on the Research-to-Policy Collaboration (RPC) Model: Overcoming Systematic Barriers to Public Policy Engagement and Research Translation

• National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence (NPEIV) Summit (NPSC representation by Tony Biglan & Faith Fuller) in San Diego.

• Coalition of Behavioral Science Organizations (Organized by Tony Biglan and NPSC representation by Ron Prinz): In September, the NPSC was represented at a two-day meeting in Chicago of the newly formed Coalition. The focus of the CBSO is on strengthening the impact of behavioral sciences work on the health and well-being of individuals and society in the U.S.

• American Public Health Association Symposium on Population Health (NPSC representation by Brian Bumbarger) in Atlanta. 

• Invited to formulate two symposia at SPR 2018 Meeting Program

• Partners in Prevention Conference (Tony Biglan presented)

• International Conference on Addictions, Lisbon Portugal (Diana Fishbein presented)

• Endorsed Organizational Letters:

  • Trust for America’s Health sign-on letter to the President in support of the Prevention Fund

  • Act4JJ FY18 Appropriations Organization Sign-On Letter

  • Child Poverty Reduction Act of 2017

  • NPEIV’s National Plan

  • Joint Comment Letter to the President’s Commission on Drug Addiction and Opioid Crisis

  • Results for America Endorsement of Final Report of the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking

  • Joint Letter to the Senate Calling for Bipartisan Gun Violence Solutions

  • IVPN sign-on letter asking that appropriators recognize the need to provide equal funding to both opioid overdose treatment and prevention efforts (Dec.)

  • March for Science Statement regarding CDC Censorship (Dec.)

  • Center for Healthy Children Statement on maintaining records of child maltreatment investigations (Dec.) 

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Briefing of Congressional and Executive Branch Leaders

• Research-to-Policy Collaboration (RPC): A nonpartisan approach for maximizing the impact of research by facilitating partnerships between research experts and legislative staff. The RPC has a multi-year track record of success. Specifically, in 2017 the RPC:

  • recruited 95 researchers to our rapid response network for child and family policy

  • engaged 57 researchers in policy efforts, including those in the network and those referred by the network

  • met with 41 legislative offices at state and federal levels and coordinated researchers’ response to 27 legislative requests, including 3 briefings, 2 policy briefs, 1 reviews of legislative language, 2 letters about research support, 6 consultation meetings with research experts, and 13 research summaries

  • coordinated our efforts with 74 organizations

  • provided professional experience for 13 interns and fellows who contributed 1,300 supervised hours on research translation activities

• Policy Briefs:

  • Healthy Child Development through Prevention Science

  • Early Childhood Education

• Position Statements:

  • Innovation, Implementation and Scaling Evidence-Based Programs

  • A Science-Based Analysis of H.R.38 §926D and S.B. 446 (115th Congress, 1st Session): Title I — Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017

• Congressional Briefings *A special thank you to Representatives Ted Poe, Gwen Moore, & Jim Costa for speaking at these events

  • Closed door briefing on Intergenerational Poverty: has led to collaborations between speakers and staffers including input on legislation. 

  • Preventing Violence Against Women

  • Childhood Poverty

  • Home Visiting

  • Police and Community Relations

  • Budgeting for Evidence-Based Preventing

  • Human Trafficking

  • In development for 2018:

    • Future Proofing our Children and Workforce Briefing Series. Through partnerships between industry, federal and state governments, the goal is to design and fund pilot projects that translate knowledge about early childhood development into childcare/learning centers, homes, primary care settings, and workplaces.

    • APA Joint Briefing on Federal Leadership to Strengthen State and Local Government Evidence-Based Prevention Policies

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Op-Eds and Essays:

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• Tony Biglan: An Evidence-Based Strategy for Bringing Everyone Together

• Diana Fishbein, Michael Vanyukov, Glenn Sterner: National Leadership Needed to Fight the Opioid CrisisWhite Paper: Extended Version

• Sharon Kingston, Cathryn Richmond, Amanda Khan: Response to President Trump’s Proposed Budget

• Diana Fishbein, Jaimie Jeffords, Sharon Kingston: Letter to Secretary Clinton on Mental Health

• Diana Fishbein: Patients With Lung Cancer Need Love Too

• Robert G. LaChausse, Vignetta Charles, Ginny Ehrlich: Preserve prevention funding to decrease teen pregnancies

• Aaron Sawyer, Julie Kaplow, Kristin Moore, John Roman, Diana Fishbein: In the Face of Natural Disasters, Let’s Not Forget Children’s Mental Health Needs

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Publications:

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• Special Issue: Evolving Toward a More Nurturing Society, in Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review (Editors: Tony Biglan & Ron Prinz)

• Boothroyd, R.I., Flint, A.Y., Lapiz, A. et al. (2017) Active involved community partnerships: co-creating implementation infrastructure for getting to and sustaining social impact. Translational Behavioral Medicine 7(3). doi: 10.1007/s13142-017-0503-3

• Crowley M, Scott JTB, Fishbein D. Translating Prevention Research for Evidence-Based Policymaking: Results from the Research-to-Policy Collaboration Pilot. Prev Sci. 2017 Aug 29. doi: 10.1007/s11121-017-0833-x. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 28849362.

• Fishbein DH, Dariotis JK. Personalizing and Optimizing Preventive Intervention Models via a Translational Neuroscience Framework. Prev Sci. 2017 Nov 3. doi: 10.1007/s11121-017-0851-8. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29101644.

• Van Ryzin, M., Fishbein, D, & Biglan, A. (2017). The Promise of Prevention Science for Preventing Intergenerational Poverty.  Psychology, Public Policy and Law.

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Awards:

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• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has appointed Will Aldridge and Tony Biglan to serve as members of its committee for the Consensus Study on Fostering Healthy Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Development Among Children and Youth.

• Society for Prevention Research awarded Diana Fishbein a life-long appointment as fellow.

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Capacity Building:

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• Annie E. Casey Foundation award for the fourth strategic planning retreat with the Board of Directors

• SCRA Public Policy Award for the Research-to-Policy Collaboration Project

• Briefing sponsorship's received by:

  • American Psychological Association,

  • The Society for Child and Family Policy and Practice (Div. 37 of the American Psychological Association),

  • The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)

  • Global Alliance for Behavioral Health and Social Justice

  • Center for Healthy Children at Penn State

• Futures Without Violence won the OJJDP award on “Changing Minds” Public Awareness Campaign with NPSC as a partner.

• Donations from our members serving on the Board of Directors

New Leadership Roles:

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Dr. John Roman, Vice President and Co-Director of NPSC

Dr. Diana Fishbein, Chair of Knowledge Mobilization Committee

Dr. Will Aldridge, Chair of State Subcommittee

Dr. Michael Greene, Board Member

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Thank you to our staff & volunteers in 2017

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Much gratitude is expressed for our outstanding and invaluable Coalition Coordinator, Jessica Bair.  We also have received assistance from Amy Anderson, Christina Athenios, Michael Castro, Brian Cone, Shady El Damaty, Taylor Darden, Charles Guthrie, Alex Ingram, Jaime Jeffords, Jenesse Kaitz, Jackie Larson, Gabriela Laurentino, Elizabeth Long, Kellyn McClanahan, Joshua McCloud, Shannon Nemer, Lucy Nicholls, Sarah Prendergast, Mashonda Smith, & Mindy Willing.