Conrad N. Hilton Foundation [to 16 April 2016]
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Our News
Keeping Alcohol in Focus to Reduce Youth Substance Use
By Alexa Eggleston, April 12, 2016
…Our Substance Use Prevention Strategic Initiative is helping to develop knowledge related to screening and early intervention for young people by testing various approaches designed to inform training, delivery, and evaluation of youth-related substance use prevention and early intervention activities. Observations from a round of recent interviews with our grantees indicate the Strategic Initiative is helping address three broad areas of need:
:: Awareness: Building expertise in preventing youth substance use among a broad range of youth-serving organizations, many of whom did not have prior work in the area
:: Adaptation: Modifying the traditional SBIRT approach for non-primary care settings so they can develop a fit that can be sustained as part of routine practice
:: Access: Linking young people to community-based services such as job training, mentoring, or mental health programs as part of the intervention and referral process…

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Press Release
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Awards More Than $20 Million in Grants in the First Quarter of 2016
(LOS ANGELES) April 5, 2016– The board of directors of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation announced today that it approved $20.56 million in grants during the first quarter of 2016, including a $5.44 million grant to the UCLA WORLD Policy Analysis Center (WORLD) for the creation of an initiative that will train the next generation of world leaders and thinkers, and a $2.5 million grant to City of Hope to launch a cancer prevention initiative that will target poor diet and obesity as key risk factors for disease.