Education and Dissemination in Support of Community Action

教育和传播部分将利用以前在中国和其他地方的中心资助和研究所产生的知识，以及新研究部分提供的新信息，更好地为社区一级的酒精预防工作提供信息。我们将加强必要的转化工作，通过开发将研究结果与社区决策联系起来的创新工具，将酒精问题的社会生态学知识纳入社区的政策和实践。提出的研究内容对预防具有重要意义，特别是与未成年人饮酒和年轻人的危险饮酒有关。

The Education and Dissemination Component will capitalize on the knowledge generated by the previous Center Grants and research at PRC and elsewhere as well as the emerging information provided by the new research components to better inform alcohol prevention efforts at the community level. We will strengthen the translational efforts needed to incorporate knowledge of the social ecology of alcohol problems into policy and practice in communities through the development of innovative tools that link research findings to decisions in communities. The proposed research components have important implications for prevention, especially related to underage drinking and risky drinking among young adults. The aims of the Education and Dissemination Component are to develop and strengthen translational processes for this research through (1) Developing web-based tools to guide community prevention leaders in planning and decision making processes using a logic model approach; (2) Developing guidance materials based on key research findings from past and on-going PRC projects; and (3) Disseminating guidance materials using communication channels found to be useful and effective, including a dissemination website; an electronic newsletter tailored to the interests of communities by highlighting community efforts; and promotion of materials to gatekeepers and opinion leaders at the national level. Specific Aim 1 will be accomplished in coordination with the Component 2 of the proposed Center Grant renewal. Environmental Strategies to Reduce Community Alcohol Problems: A Randomized Trial. Component 2 will develop tools for community planning related to underage and young adult drinking that will be adapted for web-based use by the Education and Dissemination component. Pilot sites will be selected and will be given access to the planning tools in three waves in Years 3-5. Sites in each wave will be asked for feedback and the tools will be refined based on that input. Specific Aims 2 and 3 will coordinate with all research components to summarize and synthesize existing and emerging findings on the social ecology of alcohol problems and disseminate them through channels found in previous experience to be most useful and accessible to community audiences.