The Education Component proposes four interrelated Specific Aims designed to advance NIAAA'smission of translating and disseminating scientific research findings to researchers, healthcare professionals,policy makers, and the general public.
Specific Aim 1 : Education and Outreach to High Risk Minorityand Military Communities. The goal is to develop effective educational and outreach programs for high riskMexican American, Native American, and military communities in San Diego. We propose to use alecture/discussion group format which incorporates the latest scientific findings of the Alcohol ResearchCenter at The Scripps Research Institute and demonstrates how those findings inform current diagnostic,treatment, and prevention strategies for alcohol use disorders. The lecture/discussion groups will bespecifically tailored to address significant alcohol-related issues in those communities. Treatmentprofessionals, community leaders, parents of adolescents, and spouses of alcohol-affected individuals will beinvolved in the education programs, rather than alcohol misusing individuals themselves. The programs willbe evaluated as to how well they transfer knowledge, improve beliefs, and change behavior about alcoholmisuse and use disorders.
Specific Aim 2 : Integration, Translation, Training, and Education in AlcoholResearch. Two seminar series for ARC scientists and trainees are proposed to increase integration of basicscience and human studies and translational research between the two domains and provide training inalcohol research and education about alcohol use disorders to undergraduates, psychology and pharmacygraduate students, psychiatric residents, addiction psychiatry fellows, addiction professionals, scientists, andalcohol research trainees.
Specific Aim 3. The TSRI ARC High School/College Intern Program.
This Aim will promote scientific and healthcare careers in the fields of alcohol addiction and minority health in highschool and college students, particularly minority students.
Specific Aim 4. Dissemination. The TSRI ARCwebsite will disseminate the scientific findings of the TSRI ARC and information on alcohol use disorders toother alcohol researchers, scientists, healthcare professionals, and the general public. Educational materialrelevant to high risk minority and military communities will be added and expanded as an adjunct to, and afollow-up for, the in-person educational program in those communities discussed in Specific Aim 1.
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