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MARIAL CENTER COLLOQUIUM The Strong African-American Families Program: Translating Research into Prevention Programming Wednesday, April 14, 4 - 6 p.m. The MARIAL Center Emory West, 4th Floor, Room 415E Gene Brody is distinguished research professor of child and family development at the University of Georgia. He also is director of the Family Research Center at UGA. His research focuses on identifying family processes that contribute to academic and socio-emotional competence in children and adolescents, especially those who live in rural areas. In 2000, he received $3.1 million from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to develop a program to decrease alcohol and other substance abuse by African-American children living in rural Georgia. He will build on prior research to create the program. Brody has spent several years studying how rural African-American children and their families relate on a variety of issues. For example, he sought to identify why some children are successful academically, emotionally and socially, despite growing up in challenging circumstances, such as living in poverty and high-crime areas. For the alcohol abuse prevention program, Brody will identify 400 rural African-American 11 and 12 year olds. The children and their parents will participate in a prevention trial that includes a series of sessions focusing on strengthening family and cognitive processes that will foster competencies in the youth and, in turn, deter substance abuse. During the year following the sessions, the families will participate in two "booster" sessions. “Hopefully, at the end of this project we’ll
have a set of prevention materials that we can refine and
disseminate to other organizations interested in prevention
programs,” Brody said. “In Georgia, the most
common age for alcohol and other substance use to begin is
under 14. By starting this program when the children are
11 or 12, we hope we’re going to change their thinking
about using these substances.”
DIRECTIONS TO THE MARIAL CENTER The MARIAL Center is located on the 4th floor of the main building of Emory's Briarcliff Campus, 1256 Briarcliff Road. There is ample parking close to the building. Alternatively, you may take the Emory shuttle (Route A). The Emory shuttle (Route A) provides transportation from the main campus to the MARIAL Center every 20 minutes (a 5-10 minute ride). For the shortest travel time, board the shuttle in front of the B. Jones Center or at the corner of Dowman and Fishburne (across from Glenn Memorial) at approximately 4, 24, and 44 minutes after each hour. A complete schedule and the route map are available on the web at http://www.epcs.emory.edu/AltTransp/route-a.htm Please tell the receptionist at the front window
that you are here for the
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