The Institute evolved from the Social and Behavioral Research Center for Rural Health, initiated and co-founded by the PPSI Director in 1987. The original Center supported a program of research directed toward the aforementioned goals. Through history, this program of research progressed to the point of organizing a dedicated research unit at ISU (PPSI), approved by the Board of Regents in 2004. Since the late 1980s, the Institute's research model has followed a developmental progression. The research model entails close cooperation with communities in which preventive intervention research is conducted, assisted by the Cooperative Extension Service, with each new major project incorporating a stronger partnership component than the one before it. PPSI was designed to build on this model, serving as a platform for a national network to support partnership-based prevention programming and research. In 2016, PPSI became the Coordinating Center for North American Universities in collaboration with the Colombo Plan-ICCE and the U.S. Department of State/INL to disseminate the Universal Prevention Curriculum within and through universities in the U.S. and Canada. In the summer of 2017, PPSI became a part of the Department of Human Development and Family Students within the College of Human Sciences.
2017
Joins Department of Human Development and Family Studies in the College of Human Sciences
2016
Becomes UPC Coordinating Center for North American Universities
2016
Supports Co-Founding of the ICUDDR
2012
Centerpiece PROSPER Project Joins Social Impact Exchange
2007
Lead Institue on SPR's Translational Research Taskforce
2004
PPSI Approved by Board of Regents
2002
Prevention Center Proposed
2001
IRISS-Organized "umbrella" Institute for Prevention Research
2001
NIH-Funded PROSPER Grant Award
1996
NIH-Funded MERIT Award (CaFaY)
1991
NIH-Funded Project Family Grant Award
1991
Lead ISU Center for Consortium for Substance Abuse Research and Evaluation
1986
Seed Grants for Applied Research