Background

Translation science entails application of information gained through scientific research to practices intended to improve prevention and public health. The outreach arm of Land-Grant Universities—the Cooperative Extension System—is uniquely poised to facilitate this translation process and contribute to resolution of current substance misuse and other behavioral health issues.

Objective

This paper summarizes selected literatures that guided the conceptualization of a framework for building Extension’s capacity to enhance the translation process, in order to better address substance misuse and other behavioral health issues.

Method

Peer-reviewed literature was obtained from journals representing varied disciplines including medicine, public health, education, and psychology. Journals for Extension professionals were a prominent source of relevant literature. The literature review informed the identification of relevant practice gaps, barriers in addressing those gaps, and the development of a capacity-building framework.

Results

The framework described highlights opportunities for building Cooperative Extension’s capacity to address goals in four key domains. These goals include (1) catalyzing Extension’s organizational development to support science-driven practices, (2) bolstering prevention and behavioral health-oriented professional development for Extension faculty and staff, (3) creating a stronger culture of behavioral health in Extension, and (4) strengthening Extension’s financing of prevention-oriented behavioral health efforts.

Conclusion

Addressing the capacity-related goals identified in this paper could be a major catalyst for enhancing the power of proven, prevention-oriented behavioral health and, thereby, the well-being of our families, communities and nation.

中文翻译：

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加强合作扩展中循证预防的力量：翻译科学驱动的行为健康的能力建设框架

背景

翻译科学需要将通过科学研究获得的信息应用于旨在改善预防和公共卫生的实践。授予土地的大学的外联部门-合作扩展系统-具有独特的优势，可以促进翻译过程并有助于解决当前滥用药物和其他行为健康问题。

目的

本文总结了一些文献，这些文献指导了构架扩展的框架概念化，以增强翻译功能，以便更好地解决药物滥用和其他行为健康问题。

方法

经过同行评审的文献是从代表医学，公共卫生，教育和心理学等各个学科的期刊中获得的。推广专业人士的期刊是相关文献的重要来源。文献综述为确定相关的实践空白，解决这些空白的障碍以及制定能力建设框架提供了信息。

结果

所描述的框架突出强调了建立合作社扩展能力以解决四个关键领域目标的机会。这些目标包括（1）促进推广的组织发展以支持科学驱动的实践;（2）支持推广教职员工的预防和以行为健康为导向的专业发展;（3）在推广中建立更强的行为健康文化，以及（ 4）加强推广部对预防为主的行为健康工作的资助。

结论

解决本文确定的与能力相关的目标可能是增强已证实的，面向预防的行为健康的力量，从而增强我们家庭，社区和国家的福祉的主要催化剂。