National Prevention Science Coalition Feb 20 School Resource Officers and Racial Disparities in School Discipline and Juvenile Justice Referrals A school resource officer (SRO) is a sworn law enforcement officer assigned to a designated school with the primary goal of improving...
National Prevention Science Coalition Sep 16, 2020 Racially Disproportionate Discipline in Early Childhood Educational Settings Scope of the Problem In a recent analysis from Pre-K through elementary school systems, U.S. states reported 1.27 million cases of young...
National Prevention Science Coalition Sep 8, 2020 Evidence-Based Police Reform There are 18,000 police departments and 800,000 officers in the United States. Departments vary in the quality of their leadership,...
National Prevention Science Coalition Aug 19, 2020 Education as a Social Determinant of Health Need for Educational Reform to Increase the Odds for All Education exerts a significant influence on many aspects of health. Studies show...
National Prevention Science Coalition Aug 12, 2020 How does the American economy benefit from preventing the costs of structural racism? In 2011, the American Academy of Pediatrics released a report that, “examines extensive evidence of the disruptive impacts of toxic...
National Prevention Science Coalition Jul 2, 2020 Equity, Social Policy, and Social Determinants of Health Post COVID-19 Full recovery from COVID-19 pandemic, social unrest will require new policy that promotes equity, streamlines access to social services...
National Prevention Science Coalition Mar 22, 2017 Innovation, Implementation and Scaling Evidence-Based Programs “Over the past three decades, hundreds of empirically supported interventions showing improved outcomes for children and families have...
National Prevention Science Coalition Nov 10, 2016 Parenting and Family-Based Intervention: A Critical Facet of Prevention There is a multi-decade history of empirically tested parenting and family-based interventions to address many areas of prevention (e.g.,...
National Prevention Science Coalition Feb 18, 2016 Ensuring that Evidence Has Impact: Active Approaches to Implementing and Scaling Evidence-Based Prevention Strategies The ultimate success of prevention science will not be...
National Prevention Science Coalition Jan 4, 2016 Fact Sheet: Juvenile Justice Reform and the Role of Prevention Science in Federal Policy Introduction As lawmakers consider the reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) of 1974, there is an...
