INFORMATION DISSEMINATION CORE (Cyders & Zapolski, Co-PIs) Project Summary/Abstract Reducing the prevalence of Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) requires an approach in which intervention and education are widely accessible and on a continuum from the beginning stages of use (e.g., prevention) to problematic, risky, and disorder-levels of use (e.g., intervention). Stakeholders in AUD prevention and care include patients, family members, health care providers, community institutions (e.g., schools, hospitals), lawmakers, and the general community. The theme of this Indiana Alcohol Research Center (IARC) is to investigate factors that contribute to risky, binge and high-intensity drinking behaviors (BHID). The long-term goal of this Core is to collaborate with our community partners to improve outcomes for AUD across the state of Indiana. Our work is driven by the needs of these partners and will be guided by a community-based participatory research (CBPR) framework. The objective of this Core is to serve as a bridge for the strong expertise and empirical science conducted in our IARC and engagement with our community – with the ultimate goal of increasing public knowledge about the scientific underpinnings of AUD, especially in under- resourced communities, and improving AUD outcomes. Specific Aim 1: Disseminate findings on adolescent alcohol use and AUD outcomes as well as prevention programming material to school partners to increase public knowledge of adolescent alcohol use and AUD and increase access to adolescent substance use prevention programming, particularly among underserved youth and communities. We plan to engage with our school partners by providing educational material on the prevalence, risk factors for and consequences of adolescent alcohol use and BHID for school administration, teachers, and school mental health providers (e.g., school nurses and guidance counselors). We have also created dissemination material fora school-based substance use prevention program and plan to further engage with our school partners by training professionals within school settings to deliver the prevention program across the state, particularly in underserved communities. Specific Aim 2: Serve as an educative and advisory body for our community partners in a way that allows for the broadest reaching impact on AUD services and policy in the state of Indiana. We plan to engage with our community by creating 1) an AUD training program for healthcare providers; 2) expert services for educational, community, and client advocacy agencies, and 3) an amplified website presence and accessibility for ongoing IARC experts and resources. Through these two aims, we seek to improve community education on the science of AUD. The positive impact of our proposed work will be in reducing prevalence of and improving outcomes for youth with AUD throughout the state of Indiana by expanding access to AUD science programming, and by helping inform science-based policy, provide...