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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/7/23 2:01 PM, Atika Khurana
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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" moz-do-not-send="true">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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EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Candidate bio:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;
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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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