CADCA and the WFSM study team worked with the CAB to develop a proposal through a face-to-face meeting during the CADCA National Leadership Forum in February 2010, web-assisted conference calls in April and September 2010, and multiple telephone and email exchanges. In October 2010, an initial proposal was submitted to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), which is a component of the US National Institutes of Health. That proposal fared well in the peer review process but was not scored at a level that resulted in funding based on the first submission. The collaboration of the WFSM study team, CADCA, and the CAB participated in a web-assisted conference call in May 2011 to plan revisions to the proposal, resulting in the submission of a revised proposal in October 2011. In April 2012, a 5-year research grant was funded by NIAAA (see Table 1). The study is using a CBPR approach to assess the process and impact of policy development, community education, and related enforcement efforts on preventing teen drinking parties.
