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NORTHSTAR

New Orientation for Reducing Threats to Health from Secretive-problems That Affect Readiness

Since 2003 we have been working with the Air Force to enhance their current prevention delivery system (known as the Integrated Delivery System; IDS) infrastructure through:

• (a) the development and validation of a information system needed to direct prevention efforts more effectively and efficiently
• (b) the adoption of a prevention-science-based approach
• (c) the evaluation of its effectiveness

Most recently we have been using the large, representative sample from the at-risk population (active duty members of the U.S. Air Force and their spouses) to provide effect sizes of risk factors at various levels (i.e., individual, family, work, and community).

The project started with a pilot study involving both the innovative information system and the enhanced Integrated Delivery System and is continuing with an AF-wide IDS implementation and the testing of hypotheses about the buffering effects of protective factors, and use these results to create exploratory models of risk and resilience for these problems.

Overall , NORTHSTAR aims to enhance the AF's capacity to reduce death, injury, and degraded force readiness via proactive reduction of the prevalence and impact of family maltreatment, suicidality, and alcohol/drug abuse.

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