RESEARCH PROGRAMS: AFFILIATED PROJECTS
Center For Latino Policy Research
Responding to the research and policy challenges of limited educational and economic opportunities facing the Chicano and Latino population, the Center for Latino Policy Research (CLPR) was founded in 1989 to provide for an effective exchange of ideas, provide training and research for faculty, undergraduate, and graduate students, disseminate policy-relevant research publications, and conduct outreach meetings for public officials, non-profits, advocacy groups, business, and the general public.
CLPR is committed to sponsoring research efforts that have direct policy impact on the Latino population in the United States. The Center’s current research foci are in the areas of higher education access, immigration, and political participation. The Center will also support research in any field in which there is strong faculty or student interest.
For more information, please visit CLPR’s website at: http://clpr.berkeley.edu.
Interim Chair: Patricia Baquedano-López, Associate Professor of Education
Academic Coordinator: Dr. Blanca Gordo
Business and Program Manager: Ruth Patiño
Community Prevention Planning Program (Prevention by Design)
The Community Prevention Planning Program began in 1988, initiated and directed by Dr. Friedner Wittman as a multi-year Community Prevention Planning Demonstration (CPPD) Project supported by the California State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs (DADP). A four-city prevention planning demonstration research project ran from July 1990 to November 1995. The CPPD Project resulted in community-based environmental risk reduction (C-BERR) planning for prevention of alcohol and drug problems at the community (municipal) level. Results of the CPPD Project have stimulated community environment approaches to prevention planning nationally and internationally, and have continued at ISSC as the multi-faceted Community Prevention Planning Program.
Since 1995, Dr. Wittman has continued to direct the Program, currently serving as Project Director. The Program offers research, planning, evaluation, consultation and technical assistance to support C-BERR planning. Principal clients have been the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs (1995-2006), the Schwab Foundation (2003-2004), California county alcohol and drug program agencies (1995 – 2008), the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (1999 – 2008) the California Department of Health Services (2007-2008). The largest project to date has been Prevention by Design, a seven-year contract with California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs to provide training and technical assistance to county alcohol/drug program agencies. The Project Director also consults with federal agencies: Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and with National Institute for Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, National Institutes of Health.
Two self-directed planning guides have been created to provide step-by-step evidence-based, outcome-oriented approaches for community-based reduction of risks due to alcohol/drug availability using the C-BERR approach: The first is “Taking Action: Managing Community Alcohol and Drug Risk Environments” (2005). This guide helps localities (especially municipalities) identify and manage specific alcohol/drug risk environments at retail outlets, public places and public events, rental residences, and other settings. The second is “Five Step Planning for the California Strategic Prevention Framework” (2006). This guide supports general outcome-based prevention planning carried out by local public agencies and community groups working together at the community level. Both publications may be downloaded from the Prevention by Design website.
Publications
CPPD Program publications are available on the program's website: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pbd/publications.html.
A recently published report by the Marin Institute finds that alcohol abuse costs the state of California $38 billion annually and causes more than 9,000 deaths. Listen to CPPD Project Director Dr. Friedner Wittman discuss the new study on KQED’s Forum with Michael Krasny: "The Costs of Alcohol Abuse," Thursday, July 24, 2008, 9:00 -10:00 a.m.
Principal Investigator: Denise Herd, Ph.D.
Project Director: Friedner Wittman, Ph.D., M.Arch.
Information Services Director: Joe R. Harding, Ph.D.
Research Assistant: Frank Latcham, M.A. (Urban Geography), M.S.W.
Regional Trainers: Michael Browning, Angela Goldberg