Structural Racism Booklet: Research and Policy Analyses
The National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives is pleased to provide this 40-page booklet of factsheets documenting evidence...
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National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives
A professional organization dedicated to translating scientific knowledge from the field of prevention science into effective and sustainable practices, systems and policies.
Fact Sheets
National Prevention Science Coalition
Feb 20, 2021
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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.,...
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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...
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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...
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National Prevention Science Coalition
Jan 4, 2016
Fact Sheet: Prevention Through Employment
Employment is the primary pathway out of poverty for most non-elderly adults, yet cyclical and longer-term structural economic changes...
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National Prevention Science Coalition
Jan 4, 2016
Fact Sheet: Early Childhood Development
Background Early Childhood Development (ECD) programs are effective in helping to aid and sustain student’s cognitive and social...
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National Prevention Science Coalition
Jan 4, 2016
Fact Sheet: Early Intervention to Reduce Dropping Out
Early intervention often is thought to be investing in children under the age of five, through programs like Head Start and the Women,...
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National Prevention Science Coalition
Jan 4, 2016
Fact Sheet: Prevention of Chronic Diseases
Background In the age of chronic disease, their prevention---and the prevention of unnecessary complications and ill-health among the...
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National Prevention Science Coalition
Jan 4, 2016
Fact Sheet: School Violence Prevention
Recent tragedies in schools have motivated policy-making that is attempting to put an end to senseless violence. However, reactionary...
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National Prevention Science Coalition
Jan 4, 2016
Fact Sheet: Prevention of Mental Health Problems
The Problem When we think about cancer, heart disease, or diabetes, we don’t wait years to treat them. We start way before Stage 4 to try...
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National Prevention Science Coalition
Jan 4, 2016
Fact Sheet: Cost of Homelessness
National Alliance to End Homelessness http://www.endhomelessness.org/pages/cost_of_homelessness Homelessness can be surprisingly costly...
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