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The Innovation Ecosystem Project

Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education (CARE) for Educational Leaders: Exploring efficacy and change processes

Exploration of Benefits of the Circus Arts for Positive Youth Development

Experimental Study of a Model to Support the Use of Research in State-Level Legislation to Protect Children

The Role of Research Institutions in Developing Public Policy Infrastructure for Social Benefit

Evaluation of Family Impact Seminars

Building The Science of Evidence-informed Prevention Policy: Testing the Research-to-Policy Collaboration with State Legislatures

Family Foundations for Parents of Elementary School Children with Disabilities

Investing in prevention infrastructure: Economic evaluation of the PROSPER delivery and support system

Next-Day Effects of Alcohol Use on Daily Cognitive Functioning

Connecting Policymakers with Researchers to Improve Educational Equity

Resilient, Engaged & Active Community Health (REACH)

Expanding PROSPER to Address Increasing Mental Health Needs

Supporting Effective Entrepreneurship Policy

Coordination and Dissemination of Technical Assistance to Support Rural Communities

Exploring Legislative Frameworks for Leveraging and Measuring Research Use

Family Health Study: Stress and Obesity

Developing a Mindfulness and Compassion Course to Promote Engineering Students’ Resilience and Psychological Well-being

Obesity Prevention for First-time Military Parents and their Children: Testing an Evidence-based Family Program

Genes, Environments, and Experiences in the Phenotypic Development of Cost Discounting and High-Risk Decision Making

Unlocking Female Potential: Opening Doors for Women Entrepreneurs

Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center Data Infrastructure Development

Mobilizing First Mover Capital to Catalyze Venture Investment in Minority Entrepreneurs

Opioid Misuse Prevention Project

Mindful Yoga to Help Treat Opioid Dependence

Daily Stress, Coping, and Premature Cognitive Aging in Child Abuse Victims at Midlife

Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education (CARE) for Special Educators

Developmental fMRI Study of Alcohol Use in Adolescence

The Link between Memory Perceptions and Alzheimer’s Risks

The Family Life Optimizing Well-Being (FLOW) Study

Mindfulness-Based Intervention Implementation and Sustainability in Diverse School Contexts

Autism Parent Navigators: Test of a Support Program for Parents

Building Interconnected Prevention Systems to Address Substance Misuse Using PROSPER

Examining a Brief Parent Intervention to Reduce College Student Drinking and Consequences

Testing Science Communication Strategies and Impact among Policymakers During a National Crisis

Testing Research Strategies and Impact among Policymakers to Reduce Inequalities Precipitated by COVID-19

Penn State CORE (COllege Relationships and Experiences)

Cross-Cohort Research Programme: Employment, Health, and Well-Being

Families, Adolescents, and Schools Thriving in Everyday Living (FASTEN) Study

Improving Assessment of Subjective Memory Impairment for Detecting Alzheimer’s Disease

Randomized Trial of a Data-driven Technical Assistance System for Drug Prevention Coalitions (Coalition Check-Up)

Penn State SELF (Student Engagement, Learning, and Flourishing)

Measuring Teacher Care in Elementary and Middle Schools Classrooms: Positivity, Presence, and Patience

Testing the Efficacy of Mindfulness Training for Teachers on Improving Classroom Settings for Early Adolescents

Mindfulness and Compassion Programs and Practices in K-12 Urban Educational Reform: Designing a Sustainable Future

Project RESPECT: Teacher training program for responding to students in emotionally supportive and positive ways

Learning to BREATHE: Promoting Adolescent Well Being Through Emotion Regulation Skills Instruction

Optimizing a Mindful Intervention for Urban Minority Youth via Stress Physiology

Resource Development and Coordinated Planning for a Statewide Comprehensive Interagency Prevention System

Sibling Socialization of Alcohol and Drug Use from Adolescence through Early Adulthood

Life Course Intervention Research Network (LCI-RN)

High-Intensity Drinking and Related Consequences: Daily Data from a National Sample Aged 19 to 22

Growing Evidence-Based Prevention in Pennsylvania to Address Opioid Misuse

Future Directions in Social and Emotional Learning and Education

An In-Depth Examination of Protective Behavioral Strategies to Reduce Alcohol-Related Consequences (F31/Nichole Sell)

Impact of the Research-to-Collaboration Model: Testing an Approach to Improve the Use of Research Evidence

Support to Adapt and Test the Feasibility of Implementing the Evidence-based Head Start REDI with Preschool Native American Children and their Families

Examining the Impact of Students’ Motives on Comorbid Alcohol and Drug Use

Mechanisms Underlying the Relationship between Sleep Problems and Drug Use in Adolescence

Evaluation of the Evidence2Succes Framework

Support Low-Cost Randomized Controlled Trial of Prevention Program Impact on Medicaid Burden

Stress, Self-regulation, and Psychopathology in Middle Childhood (Family Life Project)

Stress Exposure and Immune Outcomes in Children (Family Life Project)

Strengthening Relationships/Strengthening Families (Family Foundations)

Resource Center for the Standardized Program Evaluation Protocol (SPEP™)

Research and Policy Briefs on Social and Emotional Development

Preventing Intimate Partner Violence among Teens Who Are Pregnant or Parenting

Perinatal Intervention and Long-Term Outcomes (Family Foundations)

Pathways to Health from Adolescence through Young Adulthood (PROSPER 2nd Generation)

Partnership Model for Diffusion of Proven Prevention (PROSPER III)

Optimizing the Selective Prevention of Psychiatric Disorders by Targeting Transdiagnostic Mechanisms Affected by Child Maltreatment

Optimizing Prevention of Costly Adult Outcomes

Multi-Couple Group Intervention for PTSD

Mindfulness-based Self-Care for Youth Services Workers

Longitudinal Effectiveness of Communities That Care on Reducing Youth Risk Factors

Informing a Cultural Adaptation of a Parent-Based Intervention for African American Youth

HIV and Substance Use Prevention among Maltreated and Non-Maltreated Female Adolescents (F31/Megan Maas)

Heartfulness in Education: The Effects of Mindful Self-compassion Training on Teachers’ Wellbeing, Student-Teacher Relationships, and Schools Climate

Health Promotion in Rural Pennsylvania: The PROSPER Program

Health & Wellbeing of Sexually Abused Females & Offspring: A 25- and 27-year Follow-up

Examining an Intervention to Reduce Underage DUI and Riding with Impaired Drivers

Enhancing Outcomes of an Evidence-based Social-Emotional Program with a Schools Support Model

Engaging Fathers in Home Visitation: Incorporation of a Co-parenting Intervention

Efficacy of a Behavioral Intervention to Reduce Skin Cancer Risk Among Patients

Early Life Stress and the Environmental Origins of Disease: A Population-based Prospective Longitudinal Study of Children in Rural Poverty (Family Life Project) (ECHO)

Developing an App to Promote the Well-being of Families with Adolescents

Continuous Quality Improvement of the Pennsylvania Coordinated Medication-Assisted Treatment (PacMAT) Program: Phase 1

Comparison of Interventions to Teach Melanoma Patients’ Skin Self–Examination

CARE: Improving Classroom Learning Environments by Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education

An Epidemiological and Longitudinal Study of Rural Child Literacy Trajectories (Family Life Project)

A Low-Cost RCT for Evaluating the Impact of a Universal Substance Abuse Prevention Model on the Medicaid System

A Longitudinal and Person-Centered Study of College Alcohol Consequences

A Cognitive Analysis of Riding with Drinking Drivers in Emerging Adults (F31/Brittany Hultgren)

2019 Pennsylvania Youth Survey (PAYS)

A Novel Pregnancy Prevention Intervention for Latina Middle School Girls

Promoting Self-Regulation Skills and Healthy Eating Habits in Head Start

Children in Rural Poverty: Risk and Protective Mechanisms (Family Life Project)

The Innovation Ecosystem Project

Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education (CARE) for Educational Leaders: Exploring efficacy and change processes

Exploration of Benefits of the Circus Arts for Positive Youth Development

Experimental Study of a Model to Support the Use of Research in State-Level Legislation to Protect Children

The Role of Research Institutions in Developing Public Policy Infrastructure for Social Benefit

Evaluation of Family Impact Seminars

Building The Science of Evidence-informed Prevention Policy: Testing the Research-to-Policy Collaboration with State Legislatures

Family Foundations for Parents of Elementary School Children with Disabilities

Investing in prevention infrastructure: Economic evaluation of the PROSPER delivery and support system

Next-Day Effects of Alcohol Use on Daily Cognitive Functioning

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