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Greetings!
I hope that you had
a great summer; we are thrilled to welcome you back this fall with
our quarterly newsletter.
As noted throughout this newsletter, we had a
very active 2009-2010. We plan to re-offer some of our successful programs
such as the Mentorship Program, Brown Bag Lectures, and Pilot Project/Seed Grant Program. Western Journal of Emergency Medicine just published an
ECIC special issue this month featuring 12 research articles from our Center
members. We have agreed to develop a second special issue for next year
so please keep this in mind and plan to submit your work to us in
January.
Finally, I would like to thank all of our collaborators and
supporters for your dedication to injury prevention and working with us to move
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Meeting Highlights
| Quarterly Meeting: September 16th, 2010
- Over 50 colleagues and partners attended the meeting!!
- Dr. Deb Houry shared highlights from a successful first year. ECIC met its objectives and continues to grow and strengthen its programs.
- ECIC introduced its fresh new website, which includes resources for researches and practitioners, an online library catalog, support requests and information on the various ECIC activities.
- Dr. Volkan Topalli, Georgia State University, spoke about the possibility of implementing the "CeaseFire" gang and youth violence intervention in Atlanta. This evidence-based approach has led to a decrease in violence in several other cities.
- ECIC partners were encouraged to take advantage of technical assistance available to them. The new website has a support request form that is sent directly to ECIC staff.
- Attendees were reminded to apply for a seed grant through the ECIC Pilot Project/Seed Grant Program.
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Forum on Youth Violence
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ECIC Members are invited to attend The Forum on Youth
Violence: A Strategic Response to Gangs and Guns, October 6th, from 9am to 11am
in the Speaker's Auditorium at Georgia State University. The objective of the
forum is for key stakeholders (law enforcement, prosecutors, public health
officials, university-based researchers, and affected community members) to explore the feasibility of implementing the "CeaseFire" gang and youth violence intervention program here in Atlanta.
CeaseFire is an evidence-based public health approach to reducing urban
violence.
It relies on a focused-deterrence model that combines law
enforcement and supervision/services approaches. CeaseFire has been implemented
in over 50 jurisdictions, including Boston, Cincinnati, and High Point NC,
resulting in extraordinary decreases in violence (30% or more in most
cases). Anyone with an interest in youth
issues, community violence, and prevention/evaluation programs will be
interested in the forum.
There will be brief presentations from invited speakers
followed by spirited Q&A. In attendance will be local politicians,
representatives from the Atlanta Police Department, the District Attorney's
office, the court system, the Mayor's office, as well as researchers and
students from Atlanta universities. In
addition, members of the two communities we wish to target for the CeaseFire
Program, NPU-V and NPU-L, will be in attendance. Special guest speakers who
implemented the CeaseFire approach in the city of Cincinnati will be the main
speakers at the forum.
Individuals interested in attending the forum should
send an email to Dr. Volkan Topalli, Georgia State University, vtopalli@gsu.edu Please write YOUTH FORUM in the subject line.
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Greetings Colleagues:
Welcome back. This is the second year of the
ECIC's education and training activities and we are excited of what we have
done and what we hope to accomplish. We look forward to another successful
year. Our success will be based on member's engagement with the ECIC. With our
newly minted website, there is a much broader reach and access to educational resources.
Our focus this year will continue with the 1) popular Brown Bag Series, 2)
creating a concentration in Injury Control and Prevention, 3) developing
education and training in injury control and prevention topics based on the
findings of the needs assessment and 4) strengthening the mentorship
program. The specific details for each
of these areas of focus are below.
Brown Bag Series
The brown bag series has been a successful part of the ECIC. This year,
we anticipate 4 sessions in line with our quarterly series, the first will
be on October 19th by Dr. Ursula Kelly - PTSD Intervention for Latino Women. October is Domestic Violence Awareness
Month and her topic on psychotherapy for PTSD is indeed timely. The date for the Brown Bag lectures will be the 2nd
or 3rd Tuesday or Thursday each quarter. This will be dependent
on the availability of the speakers. Please consider presenting and
showcasing your work. This is an excellent opportunity for faculty
development. Contact us if you are interested. Concentration/Certificate Program
We are advancing in our efforts to create a
concentration/certificate in Injury Control and Prevention within the
ECIC. The goal is to start within Emory at the School of Public Health. We
have had several meetings with key stakeholders and look forward to the
creation of the concentration. Education and Training
Based on the needs assessment done last year, we
will work to create a webinar to respond to the needs of ECIC members. In
addition to the webinar, we invite you to share with us any educational
opportunities within your respective institutions. Our hope is to build in
the spirit of collaboration to share across and between programs. Mentorship Program
There are 8 mentor/mentee pairs representing a diversity of schools
including GSU, Emory, Morehouse, Clayton State and Spelman. Please visit
the ECIC website tab for "mentoring" to access information on
the mentoring program. We look forward to updates from the mentoring pairs
and welcome your interest and engagement.
This will be a great year and we welcome your
continued engagement and enthusiasm with the education and training aspects of
the ECIC.
Sincerely,
Dr. Sheryl Heron
ECIC Associate Director of Education & Training
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Research
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WestJEM Journal Issue
We are very excited to launch the second year of the
Injury Center Grant and have several great successes to celebrate including the
new Special Issue: "Injury Prevention from the Emory Center for Injury Control"
that is published in a collaborative effort between the Western Journal of
Emergency Medicine and our Center. In this special issue we have 12 original
research articles and 3 commentaries that present new research findings and
a discussion of the vision and priorities for injury prevention. The journal
issue shares findings from several of our funded projects and researchers and
it also underscores the breadth of research projects underway by the faculty
affiliated with our Center. The response has been so positive to this issue that we are already planning a new
special issue for next year. Please stay tuned for more information about the
new call for papers to be released very soon.
Research Portfolio
Our funded research projects are moving forward on
schedule and we look forward to learning and sharing the research findings when
available. We will look for ways to facilitate the dissemination of findings
and also for ways to continue to build our research capacity, especially on
those topics that are of most importance in Atlanta and Georgia.
Seed Grants/Pilot Projects
We have also released and disseminated the call for
proposals for a new round of seed grants. Last year we funded five smaller
projects related to unintentional and violence-related research and look
forward to new proposals for this second round. Proposals are due on November
15th and the guidelines for proposal preparation can be found on our website. Although we welcome proposals on any of the
four categories of grants (pilot grants, grant applications,
community-based/capacity building, and cooperative grants), we are particularly
encouraging grant proposals that will include translational research and also research that emphasizes vulnerable populations. Please let us know if you
have questions about the seed grant or would like a consultation about the grant
proposal preparation and/or translational research.
- Haverty Lecture
Last but not least, we would like to invite you attend
the 8th annual J. Rhodes Haverty Lecture to be held on Thursday, October 21 at
7:00 p.m. in the Student Center Speakers Auditorium at Georgia State
University. Richard J. Gelles, Ph.D., is the speaker and he is the Dean of the
School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania and is a
well known expert on family violence. Please RSVP to (404) 413-1100 or chhs@gsu.edu
Dr. Monica Swahn
ECIC Associate Director of Research
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Outreach
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The Metropolitan Violence Prevention Partnership
- Representatives from the Metropolitan
Atlanta Violence Prevention Partnership (MAVPP) are working with leaders from
the Georgia Black Caucus, the Georgia Latino Caucus, the Administration for
Children and Families, the Global Peace Foundation, and others to design a
regional service delivery plan for violence prevention for Atlanta. This six-county plan is age-specific and
geographically-oriented. It highlights
evidence-based and innovative approaches to violence prevention. A separate core element of the plan is a
social marketing intervention which Atlanta youth are developing including
concerts, rallies, walks, contests, and other campaign areas. The PeaceBuilders principles, which originate
from an evidence-based social climate strategy-not a curriculum, will provide
the themes that the youth use in development of the social marketing
campaign. As currently envisioned,
street teams from middle and high schools will implement the plan.
- Ms. Monica Swann, Doctoral Candidate,
at Walden University is working on the evaluation of the Hip Hop-based
curriculum called Sixteen Barz. This
training series is designed to teach high school students leadership and change
agent skills that will enable them to encourage decision makers in faith-based,
educational, and youth serving institutions to adopt science-based violence
prevention strategies. Ms. Swan is
building on a mixed methods evaluation plan which graduate students from the
Rollins School of Public Health developed.
She is working with representatives from the Jane Fonda Center;
Georgia's First Step Transition Academy; Young Adult Guidance Center, Inc.;
SMART, Inc.; and Build-up Purpose to conduct the evaluation. Implementation of the evaluation is planned
for early 2011.
Dr. James Griffin
ECIC Associate Director of Outreach
Georgia Department of Community Health
Injury Prevention Program
IPP Project Coordinator, Carol Ball updated the group on the progress being
made by the Child Injury Prevention Policy Group. There are 3 potential
areas for policy work in injury prevention to children: motor vehicle crashes, concussions related to sports injuries, and safe sleep. We are
also progressing on a pilot project to improve booster seat use and
enforcement.
Lisa Dawson shared the results of the SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses,
Opportunities and Threats) Analysis that will support the new Strategic
Plan. A separate e-mail will seek further priority refinement from
the group on what was presented in the SWOT analysis.
Lisa Dawson
ECIC Associate Director of Outreach
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Need Methods Support?
| Translational Research
- Looking for assistance? Dr. Jim Emshoff is available for consultation on issues of translation and implementation for your injury research. He can help you with
developing translation research questions and methods for a new project,
as well as with including a translation component to an existing project. Be sure to go to the ECIC website and send us a request.
Cost/Economic Evaluation Support
- Dr. Phaedra Corso is also available to provide assistance and support around conducting economic evaluations and/or including them as components to existing projects.
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Thank you again for all your continued support. We look forward to another successful year.
Sincerely,
Dr. Debra Houry
Director, Emory Center for Injury Control |
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Next Meeting: November 4th, 2010 12-1pm
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Location: The Faculty Office Building (FOB)
Room 101
49 Jesse Hill Jr. Drive, SE
Atlanta, GA 30303
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