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<p>Dear all,</p>
<p>Ballmer TTF candidate, Dr. Larissa Niec's campus visit had to be
rescheduled. She will be visiting next Wednesday (12/13). Her
research colloquium will be held from <b>9:30 am -11 am on Dec 13
(Wed)</b>. Job talk details and zoom link below, CV attached. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral
Health and College of Education invite you to attend the
colloquium by open-rank tenure track faculty candidate, Dr.
Larissa Niec</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> </b>Date & time: <b>Wed. 12/13 @
9:30am-11:00am (PST)</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Zoom Link: <font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><a href="https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/96343915163?pwd=SjUzdWt4cWhQeXJITHJqVkEwUzJQQT09" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/96343915163?pwd=SjUzdWt4cWhQeXJITHJqVkEwUzJQQT09</a><br>
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</span></font><b>Colloquium title: </b>Bringing Down the Wall:
Increasing Access to Behavioral Health Care through Innovative
Intervention & Implementation<b><span style="color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"> <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">Colloquium Abstract:
</span></b>The primary challenge currently facing behavioral
health researchers is no longer <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">How do we develop an
intervention that works?</i> rather, it is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">How do we get our effective interventions to the children and
families who need them?</i> Many families in need of behavioral
health care face a wall of barriers at the system (e.g.,
geographical isolation, discrimination), agency (e.g., lack of
providers), therapist (e.g., insufficient training), and family
(e.g., distrust of formal care settings) levels. Resources to
address these barriers are finite, and the need for evidence-based
treatment for children is increasing. In order to have a
meaningful and timely impact on behavioral health disparities,
therefore, it is necessary to focus on barriers that are mutable,
feasible to address within underserved communities, and
demonstrated to be associated with children’s behavioral health.
This presentation will describe a series of studies with three
primary goals: (1) to develop and evaluate innovative adaptations
to increase access to an evidence-based parent-child intervention;
(2) to reduce barriers to training for therapists in the
community; and (3) to investigate the potential of an under-tapped
resource for the implementation of behavioral health
interventions, undergraduate students. Through such
community-based, applied research, we may remove bricks from the
wall of barriers and promote health equity for children and
families.<b><span style="color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"></span></b></p>
<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:
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</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:
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mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Larissa N. Niec, PhD is a Professor of
Psychology and the Director of the Center for Children, Families,
and Communities at Central Michigan University. As a researcher,
educator, and clinician, Dr. Niec seeks to improve health equity
by increasing access to effective parent–child behavioral health
interventions for underserved families. Dr. Niec approaches this
challenge through innovative adaptations of the target, delivery
format, and implementation of evidence-based prevention and
treatment models. Her research is community-based—including
partnerships with schools, community mental health centers, and
community centers—and has a global reach. International
collaborations include work in Chile, Italy, the Netherlands,
Pakistan, South Africa, and Spain, among others. Dr. Niec’s most
recent book released by the American Psychological Association, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Strengthening the
Parent-Child Relationship in Therapy: Laying the Foundation for
Healthy Development</i> (2022), integrates the developmental and
applied sciences to scaffold practitioners in the implementation
of effective parent-child interventions.</span>
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