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PPN: Schedule

Tuesday, January 30

National Conference Center. Leesburg, VA

5 – 7:30 p.m.

Networking Happy Hour

Informally connect in person with other professionals, practitioners, and participants.

Wednesday, January 31

8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. ET

National Conference Center. Leesburg, VA

8 – 8:45 a.m. ET

Coffee and Networking

Networking and coffee before official programming.

8:45 – 8:55 a.m. ET

Opening Remarks

Brette Steele, Prevention Practitioners Network.

8:55 – 9 a.m. ET

Welcoming Remarks

Dr. William Braniff, DHS Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships
9 – 9:45 a.m. ET

Asking the Right Questions

How should practitioners think about their practice and programs in terms of measurement and success? What are the right questions to ask ourselves at the onset of any given project? How do we move beyond the question, ‘Does this work?’ and move toward validating and informing our practice?

Facilitated by Dr. Stevan Weine, University of Illinois Chicago

9:45 – 11 a.m. ET

Data: Baseline, Collection, and Evidence

What data is possible to collect, and how should practitioners go about capturing these metrics? How is this different for primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention programming, or is it? How do practitioners gather data to show impact on outcome, knowledge gain, process, and validation?

Moderated by Brette Steele, Prevention Practitioners Network
Dr. Andrea Walker, National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center
Jordan Reimer, Institute for Strategic Dialogue
Dr. Brian Jackson, RAND Corporation
11 – 11:15 a.m. ET

Coffee Break

11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Measuring Impact for Public Health Initiatives: Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary

This discussion will explore the myriad ways prevention programming can be measured. Given the broad spectrum from media literacy and youth resilience, building protective factors from an early age, to recidivism reduction and working with individuals who have justified violence, this panel will discuss how we measure such different components toward advancing a common goal.

Moderated by Rik Legault, DHS Science & Technology Directorate
Dr. Wendy Guastaferro, Florida Atlantic University
Dr. Todd Helmus, RAND Corporation
Dr. Jihan Rabah, Canadian Centre for Community Engagement and Violence Prevention

12:30 – 1:30  p.m. ET

Working Lunch

1:30 – 2:45 p.m. ET

Integrating Practitioner Tools into Evaluation

This panel will discuss the tools available to practitioners and how these can be part of any programmatic evaluation. What fields can practitioners draw from? What tools already exist – or are being piloted? How are they being evaluated?

Moderated by Ajmal Aziz, DHS Science & Technology Directorate
Dr. Heidi Ellis, Boston Children’s Hospital
Dr. Denise Bulling, National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center
Dr. Brett Kubicek, Canadian Centre for Community Engagement and Violence Prevention

2:45 – 2:55 p.m. ET

Coffee Break

2:55 – 3:05  p.m. ET
Threat AID Tool– Virtual Presentation

Presented by Dr. Amy Barnhorst, UC Davis
3:05 – 4:10  p.m. ET

Communicating Your Efforts and Evaluation

This panel will focus on using evaluations as a communicative tool to help inform programming as well as public messaging. Independent evaluation is a necessary step for validating the work practitioners do in their everyday practice. How should practitioners think about using this to help inform the field, but also the general public?

Moderated by Dr. Emma Cardeli, Boston Children’s Hospital
Dr. Sarah Goodrum, University of Colorado Boulder
Dr. Stephen Gies, Development Services Group, Inc.

4:10 – 4:20 p.m. ET
PPN Post-Symposium Survey
4:20 – 4:30 p.m. ET

Closing Remarks

Brette Steele, Prevention Practitioners Network