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In today’s pressing environment, filled with multiple priorities, CDC and its CIOs continually assess our ability to provide quality service to all our constituents.  Decreased funding by partners and states impact our ability to address all of our goals with equal resources.  The dramatic increase in the Hispanic/Latino populations, with unique language and cultural needs, in particular, presents a challenge.  However, through such efforts as CDC en Español, CDC is quickly tailoring its work to the needs of the Hispanic/Latino populations.

ANNUAL PLAN FOR MINORITY INITIATIVES
Agency Goals, Objectives, Strategies, and Activities
HAA/HSI FY 2004

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Child Violence, Adult Victimization, Injury, and Health –Test the hypothesis that an adverse family environment is a more important predictor of adult outcomes than childhood victimization, and examine the extent to which race, ethnicity, and gender moderate relations between the two.

Occupant Protection Program for a Diverse Populations –Study dissemination research into interventions for preventing unintentional injuries related to motor vehicle crashes.

Injury Risk Management for Young Children - Describe the nature of injury risk and management among Latino and non-Latino white children in response to environmental and maturational changes during childhood. This will result in a model of Injury Risk Management for young children.

Promoting Biculturalism to Prevent Youth Violence –Pilot test a Latino youth violence and suicide prevention intervention that counters acculturation risk by promoting bicultural coping skills and family cohesion.

Suicide Risk During Transition to Early Adulthood – Improve understanding of the etiology of suicide risk by providing a longitudinal approach covering more than a three-year span of time with five repeated measures.

Readiness to Change and Desist from Partner Violence – Predict readiness to change and desist from intimate partner violence.

Adult Violence Linkages in Youth with Disabilities – Develop demographic and epidemiology data on child abuse and neglect and childhood disability from a database of adults who resided at Boys Town from 1978 to 2000.

Latino Community Development Agency, Inc. – Evaluate multiple interventions aimed at reducing the incidence and severity of Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Violence among Latinos in metropolitan Oklahoma City.

Legal Rights and Responsibilities – Evaluate prevention and early intervention program for 9th graders to end domestic violence among that focuses on legal rights and responsibilities.

Men of Color Fatherhood Education and Violence Prevention Project – Collaborate to prevent intimate partner violence and sexual violence in African American and Latino families through parenting.

Preventing Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence – Evaluate project which serves victims, perpetrators, and child victims/witnesses of intimate partner and sexual violence through localized service networks comprised of community-based programs.

Preventing Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence – Implement a program for the prevention and early intervention of sexual violence and intimate partner violence in a population of HIV-infected individuals enrolled in care and their children.

Preventing Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence – Evaluate a coordinated community response to prevent IPV in Houston, TX through collaboration with the major providers of early intervention for batterers.

Sexual Violence Prevention Program For Perpetrators –Evaluate outcomes of project RESTORE, a prevention and education intervention targeting perpetrators of non-penetration sexual offenses and sexual assaults by known assailants at the time of their first contact with the criminal justice system for sex crimes.

Family Intervention for Suicidal Youth: Emergency Care – Collaborate to complete a rigorous evaluation of an ED-based, Family Focused Intervention for Suicide Prevention.

Promoting Healthy Relationships – Evaluate the Safe Dates curriculum as a means of addressing the problems of intimate partner violence and sexual violence and encouraging health relationships.

Parenting Program Attrition and Compliance Efficacy Trial – Evaluate a child maltreatment prevention effort aimed at promoting parenting effectiveness and child coping-competence in preschoolers, as a means of reducing risk of child maltreatment and related adverse developmental outcomes.

Parenting Program Attrition and Compliance Efficacy Trial – Evaluate a child maltreatment program which examines the extent to which a motivational interviewing intervention has an impact on retention, treatment compliance, and long-term outcomes in families with a history of, or who are high risk for, child physical abuse.

Multisite Youth Violence Prevention Evaluation Project – Evaluate a common violence prevention program in two separate middle schools, one as the experimental group and one as the control group.

National Academic Centers of Excellence on Youth Violence Prevention – Fund four academic institutions to build the scientific infrastructure necessary to support the development and widespread application of effective youth violence interventions.

State Injury Prevention/Program Development and Surveillance – Fund state injury programs to implement core injury functions including data collection and technical consultation to public health professionals, injury advocates, local, state and national organizations.

Child Abuse Prevention – Fund three states to prevent child sexual abuse by establishing or strengthening a statewide partnership of organizations to conduct a statewide inventory of existing child sexual abuse prevention programs.

Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancement and Leadership through Alliances –Fund nine states to conduct statewide needs assessments and inventories of coordinated community responses, highlighting prevention activities, and to establish advisory boards to assist in the design of allied DV programs.

Child Maltreatment Surveillance –Fund five states to collaborate with stakeholders to obtain information on all potential abuse and neglect-related deaths in the state, to develop universal definitions for Physical Abuse, Neglect and Emotional Abuse; and to review cases using these definitions.

National Violent Death Reporting System – Fund six states to collect data from medical examiners’ reports, crime lab reports, law enforcement data system uniform crime reports, and death certificates; and to develop incident-based relational databases that links data on violent deaths from multiple sources.

Intimate Partner Violence Surveillance –Funds two states to develop comprehensive surveillance systems of data collection, tracking, and reporting on the prevalence, characteristics, predictive factors, and types of injuries sustained by women due to violence in intimate relationships.

TBI Surveillance and Follow-up Registry – Fund 12 states to collect data and conduct follow up studies to track and monitor traumatic brain injuries (TBI), to link people with TBI to information about access to services, and to find ways to prevent TBI-related disabilities.

Dissertation Awards for Minority Doctoral Candidates— Assist and encourage minority researchers to become active in the conduct of violence-related studies through a targeted effort.

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Increase CIO participation and funding to support the provision of information in Spanish (and dozens of the most spoken languages in the United States) to promote health and quality of life among Hispanics and other racial and ethnic populations.

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