April 2021 Newsletter
A Few Words From the Directors
Dear friends and colleagues,
 
The need for community-driven and community-responsive SUD research has never been greater. It’s imperative that we listen carefully to individuals seeking treatment and recovery so that we can design better tools and services for their success and sustained quality of life. This newsletter edition provides some action steps, including a capacity assessment and mircro-training, that you can take to be a more engaged research partner in Central Appalachia. Your involvement is critical.

Member Profile and Capacity Assessment Survey

ORCCA is in the process of disseminating a newly developed Member Profile and Capacity Assessment Survey to ORCCA and the STARS network members via email.  The survey will gather more detailed profile information that will be eventually available to all members in the upcoming members-only area of our website.  These detailed profiles will allow for increased connections and facilitate collaboration among our ORCCA members.  In addition, data collected from this survey will aid in our overall environmental scan, in order to identify strengths and gaps in existing resources and skills particularly in the area of peer recovery research.  We appreciate your participation in this survey.

 

Community-Engaged Research Training

ORCCA is pleased to announce new open access, online micro-training in community-engaged research. The goal is to provide researchers and non-researchers alike with the foundational knowledge to engage as meaningful partners in research that is responsive to community health needs. This training focuses on substance use disorder as the case example. This training is divided into four short videos, available on our website by clicking the button below.  We hope these videos will inspire our learners to take a deeper dive into community-engaged, comparative effectiveness research training.

 
Member Spotlight:
Niles Comer

Niles Comer serves as a Consultant to the STARS Network project.  Niles has spent over 30 years working in the areas of addiction recovery, HIV/AIDS, homelessness, community development, community wellness, and social enterprise.

He received his B.A. from Vermont College of Norwich University and has done graduate work in Business Administration, Training & Education, and will complete his M.A. in Social Impact from Claremont Lincoln University in June 2021.  He was trained as a Certified Addictions Counselor in the 1990s and is currently a Certified Peer Recovery Specialist.  When not working or studying, Niles enjoys any activity that involves his dog Juno and the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Resources

Grants 101/Early Career Reviewer (ECR) Program Webinar

NIH is organizing a “Grants 101/Early Career Reviewer (ECR) Program” Webinar on April 14th at 2:00PM Eastern. The ECR [public.csr.nih.gov] program aims to help early career scientists become more competitive as grant applicants through first-hand experience with peer review and to enrich and diversify CSR’s pool of trained reviewers.

 

Register for the webinar at https://csrnih.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_EwP96k3ARIee5GPK2q8bvw.

 

CSR is the portal for NIH grant applications and their review for scientific and technical merit. The purpose of this webinar is to provide useful insights into the submission and peer review processes. Information will also be provided about the ECR Program.

 

In advance of the webinar, questions can be sent to: askexperts@csr.nih.gov

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