Contact: Janet Chappell, Phone (541) 485-2711 or on-line at www.oslc.org.
Eugene, OR – The Society for Prevention Research (SPR), an international membership organization that seeks to advance science-based prevention programs and policies through empirical researchhas announced its 2008 award winners. Eugene researcher and Oregon Social Learning Center senior scientist, Marion S. Forgatch, Ph.D., has been named the recipient of the Award for International Collaborative Prevention Research. The award will be formally presented at the SPR’s 16th Annual Meeting May 28-30, 2008 in San Francisco, CA. SPR’s members include scientists, practitioners, advocates, administrators, and policy makers.
The SPR’s prestigious International Collaborative Prevention Research Award is given to an individual or a team of individuals for contributions to the field of prevention science in the area of
international collaboration. Dr. Forgatch is receiving this award for her recent work on a grant based in Norway –Implementing Parent Management Training in Norway(Grant No. R01 16097) – as well as contracts between her affiliate organization, Implementation Sciences International, Inc. (ISII), and Norway, the Netherlands, Iceland, the State of Michigan, and Detroit-Wayne County in Michigan.
Marion S. Forgatch, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, has been working with the Oregon Social Learning Center (OSLC) group for more than 30 years to develop programs for families with and at-risk for substance abuse and child adjustment problems, and to evaluate the implementation of effective intervention programs. She has developed two NIMH-funded prevention programs, one for single mothers and one for stepfamilies. Both programs (the Oregon Divorce Study and Marriage and Parenting in Stepfamilies) are based on the OSLC model of Parent Management Training (PMTO). Her curriculum for the Oregon Divorce Study, Parenting Through Change, is recognized as an “Effective Program” in the National Registry of Effective Programs and Practices (NREPP).
More recently, Dr. Forgatch has turned from developing programs to evaluating the large-scale implementation of child and family mental health and welfare services. She is principal investigator of a NIDA study evaluating the nationwide implementation of PMTO in Norway following a training program provided by Dr. Forgatch and her team. She is also involved in three new large-scale implementation projects including: PMTO statewide in Community Mental Health (CMH) Centers in Michigan; PMTO nationwide in the Netherlands; and PMTO in CMH and Juvenile Justice Centers in Detroit-Wayne County in Michigan.
Forgatch is co-author with Dr. Gerald R. Patterson of Parents and Adolescents, a two volume series of books for parents, and she is the Executive Director of the non-profit organization, Implementation Sciences International, Inc. (ISII). Forgatch received SPR’s Friend of the Early Career Prevention Network in 2003 in recognition of her support for early career prevention scientists.
More information about Marion Forgatch is available by calling Janet Chappell at Oregon Social Learning Center at 541-485-2711 or on-line at www.oslc.org. A photo is available on request.
Additional information about the Society for Prevention Research is available on-line at www.preventionresearch.org.