About the Healthy Schools Division
The Prevention Research Center’s Healthy Schools division partners with schools, districts, and state departments of education to test and implement evidence-based approaches to promoting student health, wellness, and academic achievement.
Explore what it means to support the PRC’s Healthy Schools Division:
The PRC Healthy Schools Division in the News
Improving mental and behavioral health through social work and prevention research
In this podcast, Anne Williford, director of the PRC's Healthy Schools Division, discusses her research to identify effective prevention and intervention strategies to mitigate risk and promote positive behavioral health outcomes in youth.
In the battle against opioid addiction, prevention is a necessary weapon alongside treatment
In this opinion piece, Nathaniel Riggs, executive director of the CSU Prevention Research Center, explains why the goal is to prevent opioid disorders before they happen and how Colorado should devote a share of its lawsuit settlements on data-supported prevention methods.