The National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives is pleased to provide this 40-page booklet of factsheets documenting evidence...

A school resource officer (SRO) is a sworn law enforcement officer assigned to a designated school with the primary goal of improving...

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...

There are 18,000 police departments and 800,000 officers in the United States. Departments vary in the quality of their leadership,...

Need for Educational Reform to Increase the Odds for All Education exerts a significant influence on many aspects of health. Studies show...

In 2011, the American Academy of Pediatrics released a report that, “examines extensive evidence of the disruptive impacts of toxic...

Full recovery from COVID-19 pandemic, social unrest will require new policy that promotes equity, streamlines access to social services...

“Over the past three decades, hundreds of empirically supported interventions showing improved outcomes for children and families have...

There is a multi-decade history of empirically tested parenting and family-based interventions to address many areas of prevention (e.g.,...

Active Approaches to Implementing and Scaling Evidence-Based Prevention Strategies The ultimate success of prevention science will not be...

Introduction As lawmakers consider the reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) of 1974, there is an...

Employment is the primary pathway out of poverty for most non-elderly adults, yet cyclical and longer-term structural economic changes...

Background Early Childhood Development (ECD) programs are effective in helping to aid and sustain student’s cognitive and social...

Early intervention often is thought to be investing in children under the age of five, through programs like Head Start and the Women,...

Background In the age of chronic disease, their prevention---and the prevention of unnecessary complications and ill-health among the...

Recent tragedies in schools have motivated policy-making that is attempting to put an end to senseless violence. However, reactionary...

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...

National Alliance to End Homelessness http://www.endhomelessness.org/pages/cost_of_homelessness Homelessness can be surprisingly costly...