PROSPER community-university partnership model for public education systems: capacity-building for evidence-based, competence-building prevention.
This paper presents a model to guide capacity-building in state public education systems for delivery of evidence-based family and youth interventions-interventions that are designed to bolster youth competencies, learning, and positive development overall. Central to this effort is a linking capacity agents framework that builds upon longstanding state public education infrastructures, and a partnership model called PROSPER or PROmoting School-community-university Partnerships to Enhance Resilience. The paper presents an overview of the evolving partnership model and summarizes positive results of its implementation over a 12-year period in an ongoing project.
Spoth
Richard
R
Partnerships in Prevention Science Institute, Iowa State University, Ames 50010, USA. rlspoth@iastate.edu
Greenberg
Mark
M
Bierman
Karen
K
Redmond
Cleve
C
D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D017146:Models, Organizational; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012572:School Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D020377:Self Efficacy; D014481:United States; D014495:Universities / Q000458:organization & administration*