Wednesday, February 5, 2025
2/5/2025
This application builds on our current Southeast Prevention Technology Transfer Center (SE PTTC) for Region 4, which consists of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. The focal populations are all individuals and organizations in need of prevention services in Region 4. Our comprehensive approach to providing high-quality technical assistance (TA) and training services that are data-informed and collaboratively planned and implemented combines being responsive to the reported needs of Region 4, as well as proactively integrating and promoting new developments in prevention science. Our special area of expertise is local policy change and implementation science, which we are committed to providing TA and training on to the Southeast Region, as well as nationally. We have identified three goals for the SE PTTC. These goals reflect our knowledge of and attention to the distinctive populations and needs of the region and proposes tailored capacity development for planning and implementing evidence-based strategies to prevent substance use and misuse. The first goal is to increase the professionalization of the substance misuse prevention workforce in the SE region, including those who operate within underserved and historically under-resourced communities, faith sectors, and youth serving agencies. The second goal is to increase the capacity of individuals in the substance misuse prevention field in the SE region to identify community behavioral health disparities and effectively plan, implement, and evaluate evidence-based strategies to reduce or eliminate them. The third goal is to increase the capacity of individuals in the substance misuse prevention field to effectively apply evidence-based policy strategies. To achieve the three goals, we will (1) develop and deliver three distinct curricula, (2) build communities of practice (COP) for each of the three content areas addressed in our goals, and (3) provide intensive TA and training. Additionally, we will support at least one fellow each year to participate in our existing Prevention Fellowship Program. We propose to reach 7,500 unduplicated individuals in this project: 1,000 in Year 1, 1,250 in Year 2, 1,500 in Year 3, 1,750 in Year 4, and 2,000 in Year 5. Wake Forest University Health Sciences has served as the lead agency PTTC for the SE Region since the PTTC initiative began in 2018. The team has collaborated for over 15 years conceptualizing, implementing, and evaluating mutli-community prevention trials aimed to prevent substance misuse and associated harms. Partnering organizations have extensive experience and are internationally recognized for providing high-quality outcomes-focused technical assistance and training. We have formed a Region 4 PTTC TA/Training Network with expert consultants, a Health Equity Advisory Board, and valued partnerships with state, regional and national collaborators who provide important input and feedback to the SE PTTC. Collectively, the SE PTTC draws on a range of expertise as well as institutional commitment to provide equitable and community collaborative delivery of TA and training services.
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