INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY WELL-BEING
Network
Leadership
NETWORK CO-LEADS
Kimberly Bender, PhD
Endowed Professor
University of Denver
kimberly.bender@du.edu
Melissa Lippold, PhD
Associate Professor
University of North Carolina
mlippold@unc.edu
Valerie Shapiro, PhD
Associate Professor
University of California, Berkeley
vshapiro@berkeley.edu
STEERING COMMITTEE
Will Aldridge, PhD
University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill
Kimberly Bender, PhD
University of Denver
Gilbert J. Botvin, PhD
Cornell University
Brian Bumbarger, PhD
Colorado State University
Richard F. Catalano, PhD
University of Washington
Kevin Haggerty, PhD
University of Washington
J. David Hawkins, PhD
University of Washington
Jeffrey M. Jenson, PhD
University of Denver
Melissa Lippold, PhD
University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill
Valerie Shapiro, PhD
University of California, Berkeley
LOOKING BACK
The CPBH has concentrated its efforts in
three main areas:
• Increasing community and state
infrastructure for delivering preventive
interventions for behavioral health
problems in children and youth
• Scaling-up tested and effective familyfocused interventions in pediatric and
health care settings
• Preparing the social work workforce to
deliver tested and effective preventive
interventions for behavioral problems in
children and youth
Over the past five years, the coalition
has made considerable progress in each
of these areas by:
• Convening statewide meetings of practitioners,
policymakers, and researchers, as well as
providing expert testimony to state legislators
• Participating in The Collaborative on Healthy
Parenting in Primary Care, an initiative of
the Forum on Promoting Children's Cognitive,
Affective, and Behavioral Health at the
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering,
and Medicine
• Contributing to prevention programs in
Colorado (Communities That Care) and Utah
(Life Skills Utah)
• Coordinating with accreditation bodies,
standardizing learning objectives, identifying
existing programs in allied disciplines, and
creating a repository of relevant course syllabi,
among other actions
• Contributing to a special issue of the Journal
of the Society for Social Work and Research
describing progress relative to the goals and
seven action steps of this Grand Challenge
In the past year alone, members of the
CPBH have:
• Helped develop the Colorado Statewide
Strategic Plan for Primary Prevention
• Promoted the infrastructure necessary
to increase the use of tested and effective
preventive interventions in Colorado, Utah,
Massachusetts, and Delaware
• Authored and disseminated four prevention
training modules for social work students
• Delivered ~25 keynotes and other
conference presentations
• Published ~20 empirical and opinion articles
promoting prevention
• Commented in the media on COVID -19
related childhood hunger, calling for a
national task force and plan to address
this urgent issue
• Briefed federal legislators on "The
Decarceration of Transition Age Youth with
Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities and
Mental Disorders," as well as "The Impact
of Weapons and Violence on Schools and
Surrounding Communities"
• Developed a robust Strategic Plan for
implementing the activities of the Grand
Challenge
LOOKING AHEAD
Members of the Grand Challenge to Ensure Healthy Development for Youth look
forward to engaging more people and organizations in this work and to continuing the
important work underway, particularly:
• Increasing the interdisciplinary reach of its work
• Advancing the 7 Action Steps of Unleashing the Power of Prevention in additional states,
communities, and educational settings
• Finding resources to more effectively support the infrastructure of the CPBH and Ensure
Healthy Development for Youth networks
• Disseminating the training modules more widely, including via a January 2021 webinar
• Prioritizing reduction of racial and socioeconomic disparities in behavioral health problems
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