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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2014. The Evidence for Violence Prevention Across the Lifespan and Around the World: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18399.
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Appendix A

Workshop Agenda

EVIDENCE FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION ACROSS THE LIFESPAN AND AROUND THE WORLD

JANUARY 23-24, 2013

Evidence shows that violence can be prevented and its impact reduced, in the same way that public health and criminal justice efforts have prevented and reduced tobacco use, motor vehicle–related injuries, workplace injuries, and infectious diseases in many parts of the world. The factors that contribute to violent responses—whether they are factors of attitude and behavior or related to larger social, economic, political, and cultural conditions—can be changed.

Successful violence prevention programs exist around the world, but a comprehensive approach is needed to systematically apply such programs. As the global community recognizes the connection between violence and failure to achieve health and development goals, such an approach could more effectively inform policies and funding priorities locally, nationally, and globally.

The paradigm of knowledge management serves as the framework for the workshop agenda, and is relevant to understanding the evidence base for violence prevention. The four stages of knowledge management are knowledge generation, knowledge integration, knowledge dissemination, and knowledge application.

The workshop will examine

  • What is the need for an evidence-based approach to global violence prevention?
Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2014. The Evidence for Violence Prevention Across the Lifespan and Around the World: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18399.
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  • What are the conceptual and evidentiary bases for establishing what works?
  • What interventions have evidence of a reduction in violence?
  • What are common approaches most lacking in evidentiary support?
  • How can demonstrably effective interventions be adapted, adopted, linked, and scaled up in different cultural contexts?

DAY 1: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2013

8.00 AM Continental breakfast will be served
 
8:15 AM Welcome

DEEPALI PATEL, Institute of Medicine

JAMES MERCY, Centers for Disease Control and

 
Prevention
 

KATRINA BAUM, National Institute of Justice

 
8:30 AM Opening Remarks

MICHELLE BACHELET, UN Women (via video)

 
8:45 AM Day 1 Keynote

MARTA SANTOS PAIS, Special Representative of the United

Nations Secretary General on Violence against Children

Part I: The Need for Evidence. Beginning with definitions of evidence, knowledge, and evidence-based, this panel will highlight the need for evidence about what works to prevent violence from the perspective of organizations and people who seek to reduce violence through large scale global or domestic initiatives. Topics include: How do we define evidence? What is the difference between evidence and knowledge? Why is an evidence-based approach important? Who benefits from the use of evidence to inform decision making? How is evidence used by different stakeholders, and from where is it obtained? What are some of the challenges to making progress in building and implementing evidence-based approaches to violence prevention?

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2014. The Evidence for Violence Prevention Across the Lifespan and Around the World: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18399.
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9:30 AM What Is Evidence and Why Do We Need It?

Moderator: MARK ROSENBERG, The Task Force for Global Health

NEIL BOOTHBY, U.S. Agency for International Development

DANIELA LIGIERO, U.S. Department of State

JERRY REED, Education Development Center

MARY LOU LEARY, U.S. Department of Justice

 
10:30 AM Q&A
 
10:45 AM BREAK

Part II: Generating and Integrating Evidence. While definitions of what constitutes “evidence” have been debated, there is increasing recognition that evidence is vital for decision makers who fund and implement violence prevention strategies. This part of the workshop will review the various forms of evidence and their value, the theory of change and the foundation for evidence-based programs, and how evidence is established and integrated. Topics include: How do we know if an intervention or policy works? What are the most common methodologies for establishing evidence and what are their strengths and weaknesses? How can we effectively integrate large bodies of evidence to help guide decision makers?

11:00 AM Importance of Assessing Threats to Study Validity: Cautions About Applying Questionable Evidence to Policies and Programs to Reduce Violence
The purpose of this presentation is to aid researchers, policy makers, and practitioners in assessing the quality of evidence and the interpretation and generalizability of research results in violence prevention. Using examples from the field of violence prevention, Daniel Webster will address how to assess the rigor of alternative approaches to evaluating a program or policy and how to determine if a specific program or policy is responsible for producing the desired outcomes.
 
 

DANIEL WEBSTER, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2014. The Evidence for Violence Prevention Across the Lifespan and Around the World: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18399.
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11:30 AM Q&A
 
11:45 AM

Integrating Evidence About Violence Prevention
This panel will discuss systematic reviews as an essential tool for integrating evidence about what works to prevent violence, and other examples of systematic efforts to identify and integrate evidence about violence prevention programs and policies that meet a high scientific standard of effectiveness with the goal of informing governments, foundations, businesses, and other organizations in decision making.

Introduction: Anthony Petrosino, WestEd

Systematic Reviews/the Campbell Collaborative

MARK LIPSEY, Vanderbilt University

Blueprints for Violence Prevention

CrimeSolutions.gov

PHELAN WYRICK, U.S. Department of Justice

 
12:45 PM Q&A
 
1:00 PM BREAK (Pick up boxed lunch)
 
1:15 PM Experiential Evidence and ICT Interventions for Violence Prevention

CAROL KURZIG, Avon Foundation for Women

NANCY SCHWARTZMAN, Circle of 6

THOMAS CABUS, Circle of 6

 
1:45 PM BREAK

Part III: Integrating the Evidence Across Low- and Middle-Income Countries and High-Income Countries. The evidence supporting violence prevention is unequally distributed across the world. We know much more about what works in high-income than low- and middle-income countries. Topics include: In what parts of the world do we have evidence that violence prevention works and for what types of violence? What do we know about what does not work to prevent violence? What are the gaps in our knowledge about violence prevention in different parts of the world?

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2014. The Evidence for Violence Prevention Across the Lifespan and Around the World: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18399.
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2:00 PM

Global Overview of What Works in Violence Prevention
This presentation will provide an overview of what works to prevent violence, what does not work, and where the major gaps lie in our understanding of prevention across the world. This presentation will also describe a life stage and ecological framework for organizing and synthesizing the state of the science.

MARK BELLIS, Liverpool John Moores University

 
2:30 PM

Using a Lifestage and Ecological Framework to Integrate the Evidence for Violence Prevention Across the Life Stages This panel will focus in greater depth on information about what is known about violence prevention across stages of life across the world. A lifestage framework is a useful organizing principle because risk and protective factors and violent behavior and experiences earlier in life can have consequences at later stages. The presenters will consider how an understanding of violence prevention strategies at each life stage fit within a social ecological framework (individual, family, community, society) and varies across regions of the world.

Moderator: MARK BELLIS, Liverpool John Moores University

Early childhood (Prenatal through adolescence: ages 0-12)

HARRIET MACMILLAN, McMaster University

Youth and emerging adult (Adolescence through young adult: ages 13-24)

JENNIFER MATJASKO, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Suicide across the lifespan

MICHAEL PHILLIPS, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

Intimate partner violence across the lifespan

CHRIS MAXWELL, Michigan State University

 
4:00 PM BREAK
 
4:20 PM Q&A and Discussion
 
Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2014. The Evidence for Violence Prevention Across the Lifespan and Around the World: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18399.
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5:10 PM Summary of Day 1 and Wrap-Up

JACQUELINE LLOYD, National Institute on Drug Abuse

 
5:30 PM ADJOURN DAY 1

DAY 2: THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 2013

The objectives of the second day of the workshop are to explore how research and evidence is disseminated and adapted across settings, and how organizations and agencies can create their own data and evidence.

8:00 AM Continental breakfast will be served
 
8:15 AM Opening and Summary of Day 1

JAMES MERCY, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

KATRINA BAUM, National Institute of Justice

 
8:30 AM

Day 2 Keynote
The evidence that shows that violence can be prevented comes from diverse sources, including findings from research, program evaluation, and practice. These must be integrated to provide rigorous guidance for future investments and the innovations that can result in improved results. This presentation will focus on ways of resolving the tensions between minimizing risk by investing primarily in proven interventions and striving for greater impact by assembling and applying a richer knowledge base.

LISBETH SCHORR, Center for the Study of Social Policy and Harvard University

 
9:00 AM Q&A

Part IV: Dissemination and Application of Evidence. Over the past several decades the science related to developing and identifying evidence-based practices and programs for violence prevention has advanced greatly. However, the science of how to disseminate and implement these programs broadly with fidelity and good outcomes lags far behind. This part of the workshop focuses on the following questions: How can we effectively and efficiently communicate

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2014. The Evidence for Violence Prevention Across the Lifespan and Around the World: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18399.
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knowledge of evidence-based programs to stakeholders? What are the best strategies for implementing and scaling up evidence-based violence prevention programs? What are the barriers and opportunities for such strategies? What are the unique challenges faced by low- and middle-come countries?

9:15 AM

Barriers to Successful Dissemination and Implementation of Evidence-Based Programs and Opportunities to Overcome Them
This panel will focus on dissemination and application of knowledge by working to identify (a) key challenges faced by organizations and communities in achieving the broadest possible impact through the dissemination and implementation of evidence-based interventions and (b) strategies for overcoming these barriers. Barriers or challenges to successful dissemination and implementation could be associated with, for example, culture, organizational capacity, readiness, and training.

Moderator: JAMES MERCY, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

JULIE MEEKS GARDNER, The University of the West Indies

CATHERINE L. WARD, University of Cape Town

BRIAN BUMBARGER, The Pennsylvania State University

DEAN FIXSEN, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 
10:25 AM Q&A
 
10:40 AM Introduction to Breakout Sessions

JACQUELINE LLOYD, National Institute on Drug Abuse

 
10:45 AM BREAK
 
11:00 AM BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Key Steps in Applying Evidence: Translating Knowledge into Effective Action
The purpose of the breakout sessions is to explore key steps and issues in successfully applying evidence-based knowledge about violence prevention to create sustainable actions at the community level. Each breakout group will
Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2014. The Evidence for Violence Prevention Across the Lifespan and Around the World: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18399.
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include a facilitator and rapporteur, who will be responsible for organizing and reporting out from each breakout group.

Breakout Group Topics:

Evidence-based decision making based on community needs

Breakout Leaders:  ELIZABETH WARD, Violence
Prevention Alliance Jamaica

DANIEL WEBSTER, Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health

Identifying and engaging key stakeholders and people to be involved

Breakout Leaders:  JULIA DA SILVA, American
Psychological Association
KATRINA BAUM, National Institute of Justice

Adapting evidence-based programs to local conditions and culture

Breakout Leaders:  DINA DELIGIORGIS, UN Women
MARK ROSENBERG, The Task Force for Global Health

Evaluation and sustainability

Breakout Leaders:  PATRICIA CAMPIE, American Institutes for Research
ANTHONY PETROSINO, WestEd

 
12:00 PM Reports from the Breakout Groups

Moderator: EVELYN TOMASZEWSKI, National Association of Social Workers

 
1:00 PM LUNCH
 
2:00 PM

What Practitioners Need in Order to Implement Evidence-Based Programs
This panel will include perspectives of practitioners from different sectors on the type of information and resources they need to be more effective in identifying and applying evidence-based programs. The panelists will discuss where they believe the most fruitful opportunities lie to build and apply the existing evidence.

Moderator: KATRINA BAUM, National Institute of Justice

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2014. The Evidence for Violence Prevention Across the Lifespan and Around the World: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18399.
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Criminal justice perspective

JIM BUEERMANN, Police Foundation

Education perspective

VIRGINIA DOLAN, Anne Arundel County Public Schools

Global perspective

JOAN SERRA HOFFMAN, World Bank

Education/human service/nonprofit

TAMMY MANN, The Campagna Center

3:00 PM

The Way Forward
The purpose of this panel is to summarize the highlights and key messages from the workshop, drawing on presentations and individual perspectives.

JACQUELYN CAMPBELL, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing

THOM FEUCHT, National Institute of Justice

ALYS WILLMAN, The World Bank Group

 
3:30 PM ADJOURN DAY 2
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The Evidence for Violence Prevention Across the Lifespan and Around the World is the summary of a workshop convened in January 2013 by the Institute of Medicine's Forum on Global Violence Prevention to explore value and application of the evidence for violence prevention across the lifespan and around the world. As part of the Forum's mandate is to engage in multisectoral, multidirectional dialogue that explores crosscutting approaches to violence prevention, this workshop examined how existing evidence for violence prevention can continue to be expanded, disseminated, and implemented in ways that further the ultimate aims of improved individual well-being and safer communities. This report examines violence prevention interventions that have been proven to reduce different types of violence (e.g., child and elder abuse, intimate partner and sexual violence, youth and collective violence, and self-directed violence), identifies the common approaches most lacking in evidentiary support, and discusses ways that proven effective interventions can be integrated or otherwise linked with other prevention programs.

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