Our university motto “science with practice” captures the central theme of the institute—promoting the application and translation of intervention science into community practices to improve people's health and well-being.
Our Vision:
We envision prevention science that promotes capable and healthy youth, adults, Our Mission:
PPSI’s mission is to conduct innovative research promoting capable and healthy Our Values and Core Beliefs: Partnerships with communities—schools, Extension, other community agencies—are Prevention and health promotion program efforts should be oriented toward building Science with practice approaches are critically important in sustained, high quality delivery, Independent functioning of staff is respected within a culture of collaboration.
Innovation and creativity are key in the implementation, evaluation and dissemination Systems and policy changes most appropriate for local cultures and environments Unwavering pursuit of highly effective partnerships and interventions is essential.
families, and communities, contributing to legacies of well-being across generations.
Central to this vision is the land grant university ideal of science with practice,
fostered by a culture of collaboration and public health innovation. We are realizing
this vision through a network of partnerships with communities and schools that aims
to advance the science and practice of positive human development.
youth, adults, families, and communities—through partnerships that integrate science
with practice.
Current Science-with-Practice Goals—Toward greater public health impact:
*To expand the evidence base on the effectiveness of prevention, positive youth development, and health promotion interventions for youth, adults, families and communities. This includes examination of
*To evaluate engagement of youth, adults, and families in evidence-based prevention and health promotion intervention projects
*To evaluate community-school-university partnership approaches to dissemination of evidence-based prevention, positive youth development, and health promotion interventions, including factors related to quality delivery and sustainability
Partnership Results To Date:
*Community-school-university partnership delivery of evidence-based interventions has resulted in:
*Evidence of intervention effectiveness includes:
*Evidence of benefits of community-school-university partnerships to the high-quality implementation of scientifically-rigorous research studies includes:
Partnership Network Approach:
*We are developing a partnership network to support community participatory research. This network links public education systems—the national Cooperative Extension and public school systems—and other community-based groups and institutions.
*Our partnership network approach is intended to achieve large-scale public health benefits, through broader use of a community-school-university partnership model.
*The partnership network will:
*The targeted public health and well-being outcomes for the partnership network fall under two general categories:
essential to long-term, positive outcomes for youth, adults, families and communities.
community capacity to sustain evidence-based interventions in a scientifically-sound way.
evaluation, and dissemination of evidence-based interventions.
of programs to promote healthy development and prevent problems.
are actively pursued.
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