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11/09/09 – CSR staff presenting at six regional BJA Performance Measurement trainings

Ursula Murdaugh, M.P.H. leads CSR staff to deliver BJA Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Performance Measurement Tool (PMT) trainings and provide guidance to JAG grantees on reporting in the PMT, developed by CSR. The free one day trainings will be held in Alexandria, VA, St. Louis, MO, Irving/Dallas, TX, Atlanta, GA, and San Francisco, CA.

9/23/09 – WRMA/CSR team wins recompete of HRSA contract for another 5 years!

CSR in partnership with Walter R. McDonald and Associates, Inc. (WRMA) will continue to provide data and technical assistance support for HRSA’s HIV/AIDS Bureau Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program through 2014!

9/22/09 – CSR as a subcontract to the Cloudburst Group wins a task order with CDC’s Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity.

Under this task order, CSR and Cloudburst will update the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity (DNPAO) State Legislative database. CSR will bring its many years of research, evaluation, and data management services to create and conduct a strategy for identifying state-level legislation, regulation and appropriation history that impacts these three important policy areas.

8/10/09 – CSR wins 5 year contract to provide logistical support services for Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS).

In FY2009, CSR will facilitate the peer review process for the Child Sexual Predator Program (CSPP). The CSPP is a new funding initiative implemented by the Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) aimed at reducing and preventing child endangerment and protecting communities from sexual predators. Launched in 2008, the program provides grants to help locate, arrest, and prosecute child sexual predators and exploiters, and enforce state sex offender registration laws. The program will support community policing initiatives throughout the United States by promoting partnerships between law enforcement and United States Attorneys Offices (USAO), as well as with other community partners, such as the U.S. Marshals Service, parole and probation offices, social service agencies, and state or local prosecutors, to collectively reduce and prevent child endangerment by sexual predators.

7/17/09 – CSR wins recompete of OJJDP 4-Year Evaluation Management Contract.

CSR was successful in recompeting the OJJDP contract. Under this contract, CSR provides expert assistance to OJJDP in research, evaluation, and performance measurement by continuing to host, maintain and continue enhancement of OJJDP’s Performance Measures Data Collection and Technical Assistance Tool (DCTAT); provides performance measures training and technical assistance for OJJDP grantees and federal staff; ensures logistical and expert knowledge support for research meetings; and conducts periodic “on-demand” research tasks, such as literature reviews, data analysis, and review of research products.

5/15/09 – CSR wins prestigious 2009 e-learning awards.

CSR’s e-learning course, Helping Patients Who Drink Too Much, created for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), has garnered an unprecedented number of awards since its recent launch. The Web-based course received a First Place Gold Screen Award from the National Association of Government Communicators, both Gold and Platinum Hermes Awards from the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals, and most recently two bronze Horizon Interactive Awards. CSR is honored to have been recognized for our contribution to the field of e-learning.

4/20/09 – CSR AEDS contract staff article published in the May issue of Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.

3/1/09 - CSR’s CEDAP contract with DHS FEMA extended through 2010.

2/1/09 - Sex Offenders and Disintegrative Shaming article by CSR staff, Dr. Monica Robbers, “Lifers on the Outside,” published in the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology.

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12/19/08 - CSR ends 2008 with a new contract win!

Under this HHS Program Support Center (PSC) IDIQ contract vehicle, CSR is eligible to provide the following services: policy assessments/analysis, program assessments, evaluation design studies and data collection, performance measurements, technical assistance/expertise, data analysis and auxiliary/support services.

CSR research products for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) recently accepted in scientific journals

Under the Alcohol Epidemiologic Data System contract with the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), CSR researchers, often in collaboration with NIAAA staff, produced a number of recent research products. Click here to view full list.

11/15/08 - Behavioral science article by CSR staff, Dr. Monica Robbers, “Facilitating fatherhood: A longitudinal examination of father involvement among young minority fathers,” published in Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal.

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10/25/08 - CSR staff presenting at the APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition in San Diego October 25-29, 2008

CSR staff John Foster-Bey, M.A., M.B.A., Tiffani Jeffries, and Craig Dearfield, M.A. attended the APHA conference to present the year 3 findings on CSR's 5-year national evaluation of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities (CRCHD) Community Network Program (CNP). John was the lead presenter on two panels. One looked at what has been learned from the CNP sites on innovative approaches to reducing cancer health disparities. The second panel reported on CNP outcomes.

9/25/08 - The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) awarded a new contract to CSR to develop a Performance Measurement Tool

Expanding our corporate efforts to support the Office of Justice Programs with performance measurement support for its grant programs, CSR competed for a new effort to develop a BJA-wide performance measurement tool that will incorporate at least 10 new grant programs over the next several years. This important project will support the agency’s efforts to report on both GPRA (Government Performance Results Act) and PART (Performance Appraisal Rating Tool) outcome measures for its funded programs.

9/21/08 - CSR is part of the Cloudburst Group's winning bid for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 5-year Chronic Disease IDIQ

CSR joined a team led by the Cloudburst Group to qualify for CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP) IDIQ vehicle for Technical and Management Support for Health Promotion Activities 2008 (TAMS 2008). Under the TAMS contract, CSR will bring many years of research, evaluation, and data management services to the CDC to study a variety of important disease-related issues.

9/9/08 - CSR wins NIAAA Alcohol Epidemiologic Data System (AEDS) contract for another five years

CSR was successful in recompeting the NIAAA contract that we have managed since 1982. Under this contract, CSR researchers will prepare alcohol epidemiologic reports; conduct alcohol studies and present results in scientific manuscripts for peer-reviewed journal publications; provide technical assistance to NIAAA researchers; provide technical support to public data users of NIAAA-sponsored national survey data.

7/23/08 - CSR staff compile data-related documentation for the COMBINE clinical trial sponsored by NIAAA

CSR staff Daniel Falk, Ph.D., Patricia Thomson, Ph.D., and Chiung Ming Chen, Ph.D. compiled 53 codebooks and performed certain data cleaning for the COMBINE clinical trial data for NIAAA’s Division of Treatment and Recovery Research.

6/1/08 - CSR celebrates 30 years of service in the Government contracting industry!

Over the past 30 years, CSR has held more than 350 contracts, grants, and related procurements, primarily with the Federal Government. CSR has worked hard to assemble and maintain a strong, interdisciplinary team of writers, researchers, and management consultants and have provided research, training, technical assistance and a broad range of management services that enable the public and private sectors to make informed and optimal decisions in a rapidly changing world.