Funded by a $9.9 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and built as a partnership with Iowa State University, PROSPER consists of collaboration between prevention scientists like Welsh, schools, community stakeholders, and Penn State Extension educators.

According to Welsh, PROSPER stands apart from existing prevention projects because of its emphasis on delivering high-quality, research-based programs both outside of and within the classroom.

As part of Penn State’s Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center, Welsh and the PROSPER team have developed a suite of prevention programs based on extensive research, which target the early teen years when these programs are most effective.

Read the feature story: “Preventing Teen Substance Abuse.”

Read “A Q&A with prevention researcher Janet Welsh.”