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New Science to Service Awards will honor community-based organizations and coalitions evidence-based mental health and substance abuse interventions

Press Release:  science-to-service-awards-release.doc

Application Instructions:  Science to Service Award Application Instructions 

To be eligible for a Science to Service Award, an organization must have successfully implemented a recognized evidence-based intervention. Recognized interventions include those that are published in the scientific literature and/or appear on a Federal and/or state registry of evidence-based interventions. The organization implementing the evidence-based intervention should be able to demonstrate positive outcomes from the intervention in at least one of the following categories: (1) Substance abuse prevention; (2) Treatment of substance abuse and recovery support services; (3) Mental health promotion; and (4) Treatment of mental illness and recovery support services.

Community-based organizations and/or coalitions wishing to voluntarily submit information regarding their implementation of one or more evidence-based interventions are eligible for award selection. Both public sector (State, local, territorial, tribal) and private sector organizations are eligible to compete for these awards. Interested organizations should use the format outlined below (in “Application Process”) to provide relevant information.

Developers of an evidence-based intervention, or their research collaborators, will not be eligible for these awards. In addition, Federal agencies and past winners of the Science to Service Award will not be eligible for these awards.

See below for information about a great resource for social workers.  I have pasted information about this resource from their web site.  If you are interested in subscribing to get a monthly email summarizing new information posted in the last month, see the bottom of this post.

about information for practice

sponsors

IP is sponsored by the New York University School of Social Work; the Division of Social Work and Behavioral Science, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; the Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research, and the Society for Social Work and Research

mission statement

To help social service professionals throughout the world conveniently maintain an awareness of news regarding the profession and emerging scholarship.

goals

• Identify and deliver the highest quality available in each category.
• Regularly deliver an interesting mix of new information.
• Create a more global sense of the profession for users from all locales.
• Serve as a global socialization force for students.

The new Information for Practice (IP) will help us to better meet those goals by incorporating a continuously upgraded site at:

http://www.nyu.edu/socialwork/ip

IP is an extension of our most recent community service project with the same name. The new IP will continue to be a monthly digest (like the old IP). You can subscribe by sending a blank email message to:

join-information-for-practice@forums.nyu.edu

You will receive an email notice each month when a new issue is completed and available on the IP web site described.

While the monthly digest will focus on new grey literature and scholarship, the web site will also include news items from around the world. In addition both the IP web site and digest will also now include a selection of items that are fee based (the journal charges the fee, not us). Our decision to include these items was based on the fact that some may be of such interest to some readers that they will want to pay to obtain them, or access them through a local public library, or email the article’s author for a reprint.

Diane DePanfilis

Denise Bronson (Ohio State) published a great paper in the Winter 2006 issue of the APSAC Advisor.  She identifies technological, user, and organizational barriers to implementing evidence-based practices and offers solutions for overcoming them.  To obtain a single copy of this issue of the newsletter that also has an excellent article by Julia Littell (Bryn Mawr) on using the Campbell Collaboration as a reliabile source of evidence for practice, go to http://apsac.fmhi.usf.edu/publications/mainPub.asp to download the publication form.  This is APSAC Advisor, Volume 18, Number 1, Winter 2006.

Diane DePanfilis

For an overview about the process of using evidence-based practice in child welfare, you may review the attached presentation.  At the end of the presentation, there are some very good sources for more information about the process.

How do we know if its working? Evidence-based practice in child welfare

Diane DePanfilis