(From the September 2004 Newsletter)
SVPP held its annual summer event at the home of Rance and Allison Gregory. Partners enjoyed a delicious barbecue and gave them an opportunity to socialize and enjoy Oregon's wonderful summer weather. Many thanks to Rance and Allison for hosting this event and for their great hospitality.
SVPP Moves to New Quarters
As previously announced, the move of SVPP's office from downtown Portland to the River Park Center, on the east side of the Sellwood bridge, was successfully completed. The new location provides improved services and free parking. The new address is 205 SE Spokane Street, Suite 329. The phone number remains the same, 503-222-0114. Please stop by and see SVPP's new office.
PSU Dean will Speak at SVPP's September Meeting
Larry Wallack, Dean of Portland State University's College of Urban and Public Affairs, will be the keynote speaker at SVPP's September 21 meeting. Dr. Wallack will speak to SVPP about his approach to solving social problems. In a recent commencement address to graduate students at PSU he challenged the departing students and their families and friends to reconsider the ways in which communities are responding to social ills. He calls this the "upstream approach" vs. the "downstream approach" to problem solving.
From 1999 to 2004, Dr. Wallack was Professor and Director of the School of Community Health at PSU. He is also Emeritus Professor of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley and was a founding senior fellow and first President of the Rockridge Institute, a California-based think tank. He was the founding director of the Prevention Research Center (1983-86), the first federally funded national alcohol research center with a primary emphasis on prevention. From 1986 to 1995 he was the principal investigator for the California site of the Community Intervention Trial to Reduce Smoking (COMMIT). This project funded by the National Cancer Institute was the largest randomized community trial ever developed for the prevention of smoking.
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