Call to Action: Moving from Research to Policy and Practice

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Call to Action Moving from Research to Policy
and Practice

• James E. Copple
• Principal
• Strategic Applications International
• Senior Policy Analyst
• Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation

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Bring Me the Horizon
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Moving from Vision to Results

• A Vision without a task is a dream
• A Task without a vision is drudgery
• But a vision with a task is the hope of the world

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Aron James
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Joshua Magagula
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The Common Denominator for our Meeting

• Tel Aviv Heroin Addict
• Chicago Meth Addict
• Gaza Cocaine Addict
• Bethlehem Moving to Action
• Concrete measurable steps that
• 1. Prevents
• 2. Intervenes
• 3. Treats.
• 4. Supports

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• HELP
• ME

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United Flight 93

• Controlled Environment
• Expected Procedures and Outcomes
• No Identified Signals of Change or Disruption
• The repetitive cycle was broken
• Seizing the cockpit
• Killing individuals in control
• Creating a climate of fear and chaos
• All things are now unpredictable
• Creating a patterned response out of the chaos
• What do we know?
• What skills do we have or what are our assets?
• Who can execute those skills?
• How do we reach consensus? (We Vote)
• Feasibility of Success (Not Really a Variable)

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Elements of Leadership Success

• Gather Information
• Use Resources You Possess
• Dont Blame The Tools
• Skill Assessment (What Do We Have?)
• Always an Asset
• Apollo XIII
• Build Consensus Around Goal
• What Do We Have in Common?
• What Can We Live Without?
• Execute With Abandonment

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Domains for Action

• Prevention
• Law Enforcement
• Treatment
• Justice-Involved Individuals
• Families
• Veteran Community

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Critical PopulationsBuilding a Service Model

• Data what do we know?
• Cultural Competency Translating our passion
  into meaningful action and learning.
• Access opportunities and barriers
• Best Practices
• Moving from evidence base to innovation and
  evaluation

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What Works

• Prevention
• Rand Study
• Treatment
• The Longer the Better
• Enforcement
• Environmental Change Strategies vs. Individual
  Interventions
• Protection and Risk

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What Does NOT Work

• PREVENTINON
• TREATMENT
• LAW ENFORCEMENT
• PROTECTION AND RISK

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Why Do We Insist on Failure

• Politics of Addiction
• Funding of Addiction
• The Media and Addiction
• Treatment
• Drug Wars
• The Efficiencies of Politics

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Moving From Understanding to Action

• Dont tell me what you believe. Show me what you
  do and I will tell you what you believe.
• Senator Sherrod Brown, Ohio

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Rules of Engagement

• Everyone is encouraged to participate or you can
  pass
• Participants should respect others
• No side-bar conversations
• No arguing or debates
• No derogatory statements
• No speeches

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Finally P-Pa - You are Finished
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For More Information

• James E. Copple
• Principal
• Strategic Applictions International
• jcopple_at_sai-dc.com
• and
• Senior Policy Analyst
• Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation
• jcopple_at_pire.org

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