Space Scouts: a collaboration between university researchers and African American churches

Space Scouts, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and produced by the Missouri Institute of Mental Health (MIMH), is a three-episode series of media tools designed to teach fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade children from African American churches about the science of drug addiction....

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Published inJournal of ethnicity in substance abuse Vol. 6; no. 1; p. 31
Main Authors Epstein, Joel, Kadela Collins, Karen, Bailey-Burch, Brendolyn, Walker-Thoth, Daphne, Pancella, Thomas
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England 2007
Subjects
Child
Community Participation
Cooperative Behavior
Curriculum
Female
Health Education - organization & administration
Humans
Male
Missouri
Program Evaluation
Religion and Psychology
Spirituality
Substance-Related Disorders - ethnology
Substance-Related Disorders - prevention & control
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Summary:Space Scouts, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and produced by the Missouri Institute of Mental Health (MIMH), is a three-episode series of media tools designed to teach fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade children from African American churches about the science of drug addiction. This article examines the effectiveness of the principles of practice for community-based participatory research used to create Space Scouts. Academic researchers at MIMH collaborated with an inter-faith agency-Committed Caring Faith Communities (CCFC)-and solicited feedback from members of the target audience, their pastors, and other church staff, substance abuse researchers, and curriculum development specialists in order to ensure that the final program would meet the needs of all involved parties.
ISSN:1533-2640
DOI:10.1300/J233v06n01_03