Subject: Re: Why a RCT is important to D2L & the Beau Biden Foundation
From: "Joshua Alcorn" <[email-masked]>
To: "Ashley Biden" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Hallie" <[email-masked]>, "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>, "Patty Dailey Lewis" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 05:00:30 -0400

Excellent question - will circle back with a response. 

/ja
302-598-1885 (cell)

Sent from my iPhone, which is responsible for any typos. 

> On Mar 15, 2016, at 11:13 PM, Ashley Biden <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> The only question I have is about the experiment/trial. What is the intervention? How will this impact those who don't receive intervention? 
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Joshua Alcorn [[email-masked]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2016 5:18 PM
> To: Hallie; Hunter Biden; Ashley Biden
> Cc: Patty Dailey Lewis
> Subject: Fwd: Why a RCT is important to D2L & the Beau Biden Foundation
> 
> Hi Hallie, Ashley, Hunter,
> Darkness to Light would like to apply for a Randomized Controlled Trial grant from the John Arnold Foundation. Part of the grant is that someone other than D2L is paying for the program implementation - which is something we’ll start doing in April. It would be great if the BBF could be a part of proving the effectiveness of D2L training. Win Win: good for them, good for us as we go to folks asking for help expanding this program in DE.
> NOrmally, this is something the full board would vote on. If you would like, I can send this request to the board as it exists now, but since we have not really met, I thought it would be prudent to start with you guys.
> As you can see from Lyndon’s email, this is something D2L has done once already, but needs a second RCT to be “truly evidence based.”
> Your thoughts? Happy to talk on the phone about this.
> /ja
> 
> Josh Alcorn
> 302-598-1885
> [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: Lyndon Haviland <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
> Subject: Why a RCT is important to D2L & the Beau Biden Foundation
> Date: March 15, 2016 at 3:06:03 PM EDT
> To: Joshua Alcorn <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>, [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>
> 
> Darkness to Light has a long-standing commitment to assessing the
> effectiveness of the Stewards of Children program. There have been four
> studies that have evaluated the training program. All studies have
> demonstrated similar positive results. Training participants have
> consistently demonstrated increased knowledge, improved attitudes and,
> most importantly, positive change in child-protective behaviors.
> 
> One of these studies was a randomized controlled trial (RCT); a type of
> research study is considered the gold standard for assessing efficacy of
> interventions.   This study, conducted by the National Crime Victims
> Research Center at MUSC and funded by the Centers for Disease Control
> (CDC), yielded istatistically significant results, and demoinstrated
> that our training achieves changes in knowledge, attitudes and most
> importantly reporting behavior.
> 
> However, two studies like the one described above are required to meet
> the highest research standard for evidence-based program effectiveness.
> Those in academia typically consider a program to be evidence-based only
> if it has two peer-reviewed published RCTs that measure behavior change
> over an extended period of time.
> 
> One of Darkness to Light’s most pressing priorities is the designation
> of the Stewards of Childrentraining as fully evidence-based by academia.
> This is because many end-user organizations require that the programs
> they use be fully evidence-based. This designation is needed to ensure
> that all the schools, youth-serving organizations, universities,
> hospitals and government agencies that require child sexual abuse
> training have access to it.
> 
> To achieve evidence-based designation Darkness to Light must conduct and
> publish a second RCT of the Stewards of Childrentraining. The cost of
> the study will be about $340,000.
> 
> The Coalition for Evidence Based Policy has just released an RFP for
> Social Program RCTs. If selected, the Coalition will cover the cost of
> an RCT, with the caveat that another entity must be paying to deliver
> the program. Delaware is an ideal state in which to implement an RCT,
> and the Beau Biden Foundation is already working to deliver the program
> in the state.
> 
> To move forward we would like to submit a letter of intent and include a
> letter of support from the Beau Biden Foundation. The Foundation would
> only be stating their intention to fund training in the state of
> Delaware, and support for our evaluation activities.
> --
> Lyndon Haviland, MPH, DrPH
> CUNY School of Public Health
> Distinguished Scholar
> Chair of the Advisory Council
> +1.505.603.0168
> [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>
> 
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