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Curriculum Infusion is the process of seamlessly fitting drug prevention content into courses that are regularly offered across the curriculum. Between 1993 and 1999 the Network for Dissemination of Curriculum Infusion based at Northeastern Illinois University was funded by the U.S. Department of Education to support the development of substance abuse prevention Curriculum Infusion programs in higher education on a national basis. The Network continues to provide resource materials to enable college/university faculty members to integrate prevention content into classes across disciplines. Click here to order training materials.
For the past five years the Network has trained faculty members at Chicago area Colleges of Education to prepare future teachers to seamlessly integrate prevention in K-12 classes across subject areas. In October 2004 the NDCI received a three year $465,800 grant from the U. S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) to prepare future k-12 teachers to integrate real life issues including substance abuse, violence, bullying, social ostracism, and HIV/AIDS into their classes.
The network is staffed principally by teaching faculty members who have experienced success implementing Curriculum Infusion at Northeastern and disseminating the Curriculum Infusion process at national and regional meetings and workshops.
1987-89 – FIPSE Institutional Grant, "Partners in Prevention." Curriculum Infusion was the major component of this grant. Northeastern was selected as one of the five outstanding programs from the 1987 cohort of FIPSE grantees by Northern Arizona University which received a FIPSE analysis grant to study characteristics of successful programs.
1988-90 – FIPSE Consortium Grant, "Chicago-land Consortium for Drug Prevention in Commuter Institutions." Northeastern staffed this consortium which was comprised of major commuter colleges and universities in the Chicago area.
1990-92 – FIPSE Dissemination Grant, "Project L.E.A.P." Northeastern successfully disseminated the Curriculum Infusion strategy to four Chicago area commuter colleges. Prevention staff created and published package of video resource materials introducing the Curriculum Infusion process, "Prevention Across the Curriculum."
1993-94 – FIPSE Dissemination Grant, "Network for Dissemination of Curriculum Infusion." Local, regional, and national workshops and trainings and distribution of a variety of resource materials including a national newsletter, "Network News." Creation and publication of video resource materials to facilitate faculty development for Curriculum Infusion, "Bringing Prevention into the Classroom."
1995-96 – FIPSE Dissemination Grant, "Network for Dissemination of Curriculum Infusion." Analysis of factors contributing to successful Curriculum Infusion; inclusion of analysis results in continuing national dissemination of the Curriculum Infusion strategy.
1997-99 –
U.S Department of Education Dissemination
Grant,
"Network for Dissemination of Curriculum Infusion." Local
and regional workshops and trainings; distribution of resource materials, including
monograph on successful programs; publication of exemplary faculty prevention
modules.
1998-Present – State of Illinois Board of Education Higher Education Cooperation Act (HECA) Grant, “Teacher Education Drug Prevention.” Training College of Education faculty members at four Chicago universities (Chicago State, DePaul, Northeastern Illinois, and North Park) to teach teachers-in-training to seamlessly integrate research-based prevention strategies into their teaching and lesson plans.
2000-Present – Department of Human Services, Bureau of Prevention Grant, A supplemental grant to assist with building and maintenance of websites, extending project training in-service teachers, and extending capacity in other project activities.
2000-2001 – Fry Foundation Grant, “West Town Training Project.” Training teachers at Wells High School and four feeder schools (Anderson, Lozano, Otis, and Peabody) to infuse research-based substance abuse and violence prevention strategies into classes across the curriculum.
2003-2006 – U. S. Department of Education,
Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) Grant,
“Real Life Issues Curriculum Infusion.” A three-year
grant to train College of Education faculty members at four universities to
teach Curriculum Infusion of Real Life Issues (e.g. substance abuse, violence,
bullying, social ostracism, and HIV/AIDS prevention) to teachers-in-training.
During the second year of the project training, resources, and project evaluation
findings will be disseminated throughout Illinois, and in the third year the
project will be disseminated nationally.
Ron Glick:
Project Director
Ronald Glick is Professor of Sociology at Northeastern
Illinois University. Dr. Glick holds a Doctorate in Criminology from the University
of California, Berkeley. He teaches the Sociology of Drug Abuse, Urban Sociology,
Social Stratification and Sociological Theory. For more than 20 years has served
as Academic Advisor to drug abuse treatment and prevention workers in the Chicago
metropolitan area through Northeastern’s University Without Walls Program.
Dr. Glick was the principal architect of Northeastern’s Criminal Justice
Department and has served as Coordinator of the Sociology Program and as Chair
of Northeastern’s Faculty Senate. Between 1987 and 1999 he served as the
Project Coordinator or Project Director of the six successive two-year grants
the university received from the U. S. Department of Education for substance
abuse prevention in higher education. Since 1993 he has served as Director of
the Network for Dissemination of Curriculum Infusion (NDCI) which was funded
by the U. S. Department of Education from 1993 to 1999 to nationally disseminate
the substance abuse prevention strategy of integrating prevention content into
courses across the curriculum. For the past four years he has directed the NDCI
Teacher Education Project which prepares future teachers at four Chicago area
Colleges of Education to integrate drug prevention into k-12 classes across
the curriculum. The NDCI is currently engaged with the Safe and Drug Free Schools
and Communities Program of the Chicago Public Schools providing curriculum infusion
training to teachers in the low income Latino West Town community. Professor
Glick is experienced in cross-cultural issues related to substance abuse. His
research and publications are on prevention and on drug abuse in the Latino
community. He co-edited Drugs in Hispanic Communities (Rutgers Press,
1990).
Bruce Joleaud:
Project Coordinator
Bruce Joleaud holds a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology
from the Adler School of Professional Psychology and is a Certified Supervisor
Alcohol and Drug Counselor and a National Certified Addiction Counselor II.
He began work in the field of mental health in 1971 and a specialty in addictions
in 1977. Since 1982 he has provided both addictions counseling and prevention
training and consultation in a variety of f and settings throughout the Midwest.
He has worked as the Clinical Training Director/Senior Manager for Healthcare
Alternative Systems, Inc., a Latino based addictions treatment and prevention
agency with multiple locations in Chicago, and for eleven years was Coordinator
of Grant Hospital’s Clinical Training Program for Addictions Counselors
(CTPAC). Mr. Joleaud was a Founding Member of the Illinois Alcohol / Drug Counselor
Training Program Director’s Consortium and served as the Chair from 1992
to 1995. He is co-author of The Training Life: Living and Learning in the
Substance Abuse Field and was the Co-host of Chemically Independent,
a cable television talk show about issues in recovery. He has served as prevention
consultant for the Network for Dissemination of Curriculum Infusion and other
university grant programs since 1987 and has been the prevention grants Project
Coordinator since 1998.
Hamid Akbari:
Training and Dissemination Consultant
Hamid Akbari, Ph. D., is Associate Professor of Management and Chair of the
Department of Management and Marketing at Northeastern Illinois University.
Professor Akbari earned his doctorate in Business Administration at Ohio State
University. He was in the first group of faculty selected to infuse prevention
into their courses at Northeastern. Since 1988 he has served as a dissemination
consultant for Northeastern prevention grants, providing workshops, training
and consultation to faculty designing prevention content for their courses.
Dr. Akbari’s research and publications focus on leadership, entrepreneurship,
and teaching pedagogy. His research background is in qualitative methods.
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