The Center for Prosocial Communities: Mission Statement
Our group involves faculty and students at CU and other institutions who are committed to understanding and promoting resilience among those at exceptionally high-risk for bad life outcomes. We conduct research on how resilience naturally unfolds and on how interventions artificially instigate resilience. We are interested in interventions commonly provided to high-risk youth. At our clinic, we evaluate community-, school, and family-based interventions designed to promote resilience among high-risk youth and multi-problem families. In our lab, we train students in research and clinical methods. We consult with juvenile-justice and school systems around the country about cost-effective methods of identifying, assessing, and helping high-risk youth, their families, and their communities. We provide free clinical evaluations to hundreds of juvenile offenders and their families each year and low-cost treatment to a growing number of families each year.