Research & Continuing Education
Regional Research Institute for Human Services (RRI)
RRI conducts research and evaluation with the goal of improving peoples’ lives, human services, supports, and policies. Nationally recognized for its innovative practices related to the inclusion of family members, youth and adult consumers in all levels of human service planning, design, implementation, and evaluation, RRI has provided evaluation and research services since 1972.
Research and Training Center (RTC)
The RTC for Pathways to Positive Futures aims to improve the lives of youth and young adults with serious mental health conditions through rigorous research and effective training and dissemination. Our work is guided by the perspectives of young people and their families, and based in a positive development framework.
Reclaiming Futures
Reclaiming Futures helps young people in trouble with drugs, alcohol, and crime. In 2001, with a $21 million investment from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 10 founding communities located throughout the United States began reinventing the way police, courts, detention facilities, treatment providers, and the community work together to meet this urgent need.Reclaiming Futures is now in 26 communities thanks to investments by RWJF, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) and the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust.
Summer Institute on Youth Mentoring
The Summer Institute on Youth Mentoring offers a truly distinctive educational opportunity for experienced mentoring professionals which includes a week-long seminar presenting the latest developments in theory and research on youth mentoring, sessions led by prominent, nationally recognized research fellows, ample time for participants to think critically and creatively about their own program issues and explore opportunities for innovation - and a sustained dialogue between experienced professionals and researchers.
The Center for Interdisciplinary Mentoring Research (CIMR)
The Center for Interdisciplinary Mentoring Research at Portland State University fosters collaboration among faculty from Social Work, Sociology, Psychology, Business Administration, and Engineering and Computer Science to charting new directions for research and practice across multiple domains of mentoring, including youth development, higher education, and workplace mentoring.
The Center for Improvement of Child and Family Services
The Center for Improvement of Child and Family Services integrates research, education and training to advance the delivery of services to children and families. We work with agency and community partners to promote a child serving system that protects children, respects families, and builds community capacity to address emerging needs.
The Center for Improvement of Child and Family Services integrates research, education and training to advance the delivery of services to children and families. We work with agency and community partners to promote a child serving system that protects children, respects families, and builds community capacity to address emerging needs.
Based at the PSU School of Social Work, our long history of involvement with public child welfare provides an advantage in terms of knowledge of agency-based research, familiarity with practice trends, and a network of local and national relationships for research and training.
The Child Welfare Partnership’s team of professional trainers offers all training for incoming public child welfare staff, as well as advanced and supervisory training and for caregivers (foster, adopt, and relative parents). For more information about these programs, go to the Child Welfare Partnership programs.
The Center’s training programs expand the Partnership’s reach to other instructional topics and communities. These training programs include grant-funded projects and contracts with specific agencies and initiatives.
