Contact: Judy Boler, Phone 541-485-2711
WASHINGTON, DC – OSLC Senior Scientist and psychologist Dr. Patti Chamberlain will receive the prestigious Science to Practice Award this week at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Prevention Research (SPR). The mission of SPR is to advance science-based prevention programs and policies through empirical research. The international membership of the organization includes over 700 scientists, practitioners, advocates, administrators, and policy makers who are concerned with the prevention of social, physical and mental health problems and the promotion of health, safety, and well-being. The members of SPR represent a wide variety of academic disciplines, including psychology, public health, social work, medicine, sociology, anthropology, communications, economics, and biostatistics. The Science to Practice Award is given to an individual or team “in recognition of continued support the implementation of research based prevention practices in real world settings.” Dr. Chamberlain and her team developed a therapeutic foster care program, Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC). Her intervention program has been demonstrated to be efficacious with high risk boys and girls in a number of randomized clinical trials. She is currently the principal investigator on a large scale dissemination study of MTFC taking place in various locales throughout the state of California.