# Presentation: 515041

## Informed Partnerships

- Effectively Tapping NPL Resources

## Overview

- Role
- Responsibilities
- Resources
- Relationships
- Examples

**Notes:**
5 things,

But first a question to you....

## What do NPLs do?

## 
National Program Leaders carry out the mission of CSREES: To advance knowledge for agriculture, the environment, human health and well-being, and communities. 

- National Program Leaders carry out the mission of CSREES: *To advance knowledge for agriculture, the environment, human health and well-being, and communities*.

- NPL Role

## NPL Responsibilities

- Conceive, Formulate, and Direct
- Administer and Manage
- Evaluate and Assess
- Network and Collaborate

**Notes:**
Network and collaborate with partners and stakeholders to identify mission-relevant problems, opportunities, and issues requiring federal attention and support;
Conceive, formulate, and direct programs and activities to respond to existing or emerging problems, opportunities, and issues through the development and application of science-based knowledge; 
Administer and manage programs and activities to develop and apply science and knowledge; and, 
Evaluate and assess the quality, outcomes, and impacts of these programs.

## NPL Resources

- Agricultural & Food Biosecurity
- Agricultural Systems
- Animals & Animal Products
- Biotechnology & Genomics
- Economics & Commerce

- Families, Youth & Communities
- Food, Nutrition & Health
- Natural Resources & Environment
- Pest Management
- Plants & Plant Products
- Technology & Engineering

**Notes:**
87 NPLs working in 59 identified programs across 11 National Emphasis Areas:

## NPL Resources

- NPL Liaisons
- Program Reviews
- Multi-State Research Projects
- Internal & External Teams
- eXtension
- NRI
- Social Science Perspective

**Notes:**
In concrete terms

Internal and External Teams

## NPL Resources

- CSREES Technology
- Web
- Breeze
- Newsletters
- Listserv
- Teleconference Bridges

## Environmental Scan

## NPL Relationships-Internal 

- Social Scientists Working Group
- Diversity Advisory Council
- International Council
- Portfolio Review Team
- Obesity Task Force

- Partnerships Working Group
- Human Nutrition Coordinating Committee
- Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee
- One Solution

**Notes:**
One Solution seeks to address the shortcomings of the existing reporting environment through an integrated approach that ties together reporting systems and processes across all CSREES programs. One Solution will fulfill three major goals: 
• Simplify reporting and reduce burdens for grantees; 
• Improve the quality of accountability data and better equip the agency to meet increasing performance and budget reporting expectations; and 
• Reduce effort required to complete reporting-related processes, allowing staff members to focus on program leadership and active, portfolio-based management. 

## NPL Relationships-External

- Committees, Working Groups, Partnerships
- FSNE Evaluation Interagency Working Group
- ERS Diet Quality Initiative Steering Committee
- Federal Interagency Task Force on Older American Indians
- Federal Interagency Working Group on Child Abuse and Neglect
- National Assembly Family Strengthening Peer Network

## NPL Relationships-External

- Committees, Working Groups, Partnerships
- NCI Team-Up Cancer Prevention National Steering Group
- Medicare Partners Coordinating Committee
- Coalition of Organizations for Disaster Education
- National Endowment for Financial Education
- Consumer Federation of America
- Defense Agencies

## NPL Relationships-External

- Committees, Working Groups, Partnerships
- 4-H Annie E. Casey Family Strengthening Awards Committee
- HAY-Helping America’s Youth
- NIH Nutrition Coordinating Committee
- NCI 5-A-Day Interagency Coordinating Committee
- Pediatric Obesity Research Interest Group
- 1890 Childhood Obesity Prevention Project
- Breastfeeding Promotion Consortium
- Federal Housing Partnership

## External Examples

## CSREES’ ongoing partnership with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act (MMA) 2003

September 2004 Agreement $300K
States were chosen on the basis of CMS demographic and beneficiary data: NE, SD, NV, WY, ID 
NPL: Caroline Crocoll
www.csrees.usda.gov/nea/family/sri/family_sri_medicare.html

- Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act (MMA) 2003
- September 2004 Agreement $300K
- States were chosen on the basis of CMS demographic and beneficiary data: NE, SD, NV, WY, ID
- NPL: Caroline Crocoll
- www.csrees.usda.gov/nea/family/sri/family_sri_medicare.html

- Medicare Education Project

**Notes:**
To help educate Medicare beneficiaries, family caregivers, and rural and limited-resource families to make informed consumer and health care decisions. 
Signed into law in December of 2003 
Providing seniors and people living with disabilities with a prescription drug benefit 
More choices and better benefits under Medicare
Rural communities and traditionally underserved audiences do not have ready access to accurate information about Medicare reform.

Families, 4-H and Nutrition Unit (F4-HN)
	USDA/CSREES 
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) 
Cooperative Extension
National Recognition/Awards
Cabinet Secretaries/President
Florida-Computers 
Indiana: 18Kentucky: 21  Georgia: 44Florida: 25California: 15valued at $200K

## America Saves

- Late 1990s Money 2000
- Cornell & Rutgers
- Helped non-savers to catch the savings habit-save $2000 by the year 2000
- Consumer Federation of America
- How can we use Social Marketing theory to change attitudes away from consumption to savings?
- NPL: Jane Schuchardt
- _[www.csrees.usda.gov/nea/economics/fsll/publications/amsaves_imp05.doc](http://www.csrees.usda.gov/nea/economics/fsll/publications/amsaves_imp05.doc)_

**Notes:**
Idea was to dissolve by the year 2000

## Family Strengthening

- 2004 meeting w/ National 4-H Council, National 4-H Headquarters, A.E.C. Foundation
- Development of 4-H Annie E. Casey Family Strengthening Awards Program
- Eligible 4-H programs are those that significantly involve families especially those families that are disadvantaged and live in rural areas
- Five $15,000 awards each year (5 in 2006 & 5 in 2006)
- NPLs: Suzanne LeMenestrel & Caroline Crocoll
- _[www.fourhcouncil.edu/4HFamiliesProgram.aspx](http://www.fourhcouncil.edu/4HFamiliesProgram.aspx)_

**Notes:**
Meet yearly to review proposals
Stephen Small Wisconsin chosen as the first distinguished lecturer

## CODE

- Following 9/11
- Coalition of Organizations for Disaster Education
- 27 National Organizations & Federal Agencies
- CSREES, FEMA, Red Cross, US Geological Survey, National Weather Service, NOAA, DHHS, Commerce, Interior, Homeland Security
- EDEN
- Quarterly Meetings
- NPLs: Joseph Wysocki and Caroline Crocoll
- _[www.disastereducation.org](http://www.disastereducation.org/)_

**Notes:**
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

## Health Promotion

- FDA Initial Listserv contact
- FDA Office of Women's Health (OWH) wants to expand its outreach services to include USDA CSREES CES Health Educators.
- Series of 40 research-based fact sheets on health-related issues
- Partnering opportunities, EFNEP, Human Nutrition, Health
- NPL: Shirley Gerrior
- www.pueblo.gsa.gov/rc/f08csrees.htm

## Bio-based Fuels

- CSREES and other interested federal agencies are exploring opportunities to convene an “experts workshop” to bring social scientists and bio-economy experts together to develop a systems map of integrative issues and identify priorities to be incorporated into existing and new programs.
- NPLs: from ECS, F4-HN, NRE, CP & P&A
- _[www.csrees.usda.gov/newsroom/impacts/05index/energy_biofuels.pdf](http://www.csrees.usda.gov/newsroom/impacts/05index/energy_biofuels.pdf)_

**Notes:**
for research, education and extension, 
You have the executive summary from a draft white paper on bio-economy
Discussion/panel this afternoon 

## Contact

- NPL Liaisons
- _[www.csrees.usda.gov](http://www.csrees.usda.gov/)_
- _[www.csrees.usda.gov/about/AllUnits/staff_dir_search.cfm](http://www.csrees.usda.gov/about/AllUnits/staff_dir_search.cfm)_
- Bottom Line

**Notes:**
Bottom Line for FCS
In a time of limited funding and great need for our programs, NPLs work hard to facilitate partnerships and resources for the FCS community

Or  as Jane Schuchardt like to say, we provide
Visibility
Opportunity an certainly 
Accountability in our work for the system

QUESTIONS?