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Starting Early Starting Smart

Oregon’s SIG project is based on the Starting Early Starting Smart (SESS) approach. SESS is a knowledge development initiative designed to:

• Create and test a new model for providing integrated behavioral health services (mental health and substance abuse prevention and treatment) for young children (birth to 7 years) and their families; and to
• Inform practitioners and policymakers of successful interventions and promising practices from the multi-year study, which lay a critical foundation for the positive growth and development of very young children.

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)

CSAP is the sole federal organization with responsibility for improving accessibility and quality of substance abuse prevention services. The center provides national leadership in the development of policies, programs, and services to prevent the onset of illegal drug use, underage alcohol and tobacco use, and to reduce the negative consequences of using substances. CSAP promotes a comprehensive prevention system approach that includes community involvement and partnership among all sectors of society. Oregon’s SIG project is part of this comprehensive prevention effort.  

Zero to Three

ZERO TO THREE is a national non-profit organization with the mission to promote the healthy development of our nation's infants and toddlers by supporting and strengthening families, communities, and those who work on their behalf. The are dedicated to advancing current knowledge; promoting beneficial policies and practices; communicating research and best practices to a wide variety of audiences; and providing training, technical assistance and leadership development.

National Governor's Association, Center for Best Practices

The NGA Center for Best Practices supports the work of governors and their policy advisors in developing and implementing strategies to increase opportunities for early child literacy, learning, and development.

Early Childhood Policy Leadership Forum

The State Early Childhood Policy Leadership Forum seeks to build state capacity to develop and strengthen statewide, cross-system early childhood (birth to age 5) policies and programs by supporting leaders who are actively guiding statewide comprehensive early childhood policy initiatives. These leaders are "boundary spanners" who are forming new links - both horizontally across health, human services, education and labor departments within state governments, and vertically between federal, state and local governments. As they work to integrate diverse federal and state funding streams and forge new partnerships with the business, philanthropic and nonprofit sectors, these leaders are challenged to function simultaneously as change agents, innovators, social marketers, evaluators, economists, early childhood advocates and policy experts.

Western Center for Applied Prevention Technology

Western Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPT) is one of five regional centers funded by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention  (CSAP) and includes Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, California, Arizona, Nevada, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Palau, and the U.S./Mexico Border Region. The purpose of CSAP's Western CAPT is to assist states, jurisdictions, and community-based prevention programs in the Western Region to apply scientifically-defensible strategies in their efforts to prevent substance abuse. CSAP's Western CAPT is organized to provide useful, efficient, cost-effective, and culturally sensitive prevention application services through a comprehensive system that matches services to the technological capabilities and capacity of local community-based prevention programs.

One Sky Center (Native American Resource Center)

The mission of the One Sky Center is to “ improve prevention and treatment of substance abuse among Native people.” Specific objectives include:

• Promote and nurture effective and culturally appropriate substance abuse prevention and treatment services for Native populations.
• Identify culturally appropriate effective evidence-based substance abuse prevention and treatment practices and disseminate them so that they can be applied successfully across diverse tribal communities.
• Provide training, technical assistance and products to expand the capacity and quality of substance abuse prevention and treatment practitioners serving this population.

Community Anti Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA)

CADCA's mission is to build and strengthen the capacity of community coalitions to create safe, healthy and drug-free communities. The organization supports its members with technical assistance and training, public policy, media strategies and marketing programs, conferences and special events.

Northwest Professional Consortium, Inc. (NPC) Research

NPC Research is a network of skilled professionals whose work is focused on research that is designed to aid public policymakers in making research-based decisions. NPC Research is providing the evaluation of Oregon’s SIG project.

Circle of Security

The Circle of Security Project is an innovative, first-of-its-kind early intervention program designed to alter the developmental pathway of parents and their young children. The Circle of Security Project integrates over fifty years of attachment research into a video-based intervention to strengthen parents’ ability to observe and improve their caregiving capacity.