Closing Summary

Cassie Lauver: Thank you, Peter. We’ve come to the end of our program for another year and I would be remiss if I didn’t thank a number of people who have helped. We did have a planning committee that came up with this year’s topic of Research to Practice, and the planning committee list, I think, is in your book, and want to thank them. Also want to give a special thanks to Carol O’Toole part of the Division of State and Community Health staff. She’s been instrumental in making sure the meeting has run smoothly and also recognize our scholar, Heather *Demeris, and our scholar graduate, Elizabeth *Walkup, for helping with the meeting as well. Also want to thank, in particular, Viro Staff, Denise (inaudible) and Michele Waller, Bonnie Strickland, Michele (inaudible), and Michael Cogan who were all instrumental in putting the *plannery sessions together. And in addition, many staff from the Bureau as well as you all from states and communities that contributed to what I think was a very successful meeting. Certainly, we’ve had presentations, as Dr. van Dyck said, that are very rich and very in depth, talking about what research is in the field these days and what states are doing to seize on the research to build policy and practice to serve the populations that we’re all here to serve. And just to go back, I don’t know if Sally Fogerty is still here, but she put out a challenge on the first day of the conference to take two things, and we certainly heard a lot of research in the last two and half days; a lot of initiatives and a lot of state of the art, and I think we can think about the presentations and look for taking home two challenges that we can look at and what we can do around those. Just before we leave, this bowl is the raffle tickets that, again, our logistics contractor has donated a gift for those people wanting and willing to submit their evaluations, and we do want those, and we’ll put this on the back table. I think that they’re going to draw at 12:00. One does not need to be here to win. I think most of the people have written their information on there and at this point I just want to say thank you and everyone have a safe trip home.