Author: Sharon Kingston

By Cathryn Richmond (NPSC), Amanda J. Khan (NPSC) and Sharon Kingston (NPSC, Dickinson College) The National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives (NPSC) works in a nonpartisan manner with congressional offices and caucuses, as well as with administrators of federal agencies, to assist the federal government in adopting evidence-based prevention policies, programs and practices. The NPSC is composed of scientists, educators, community stakeholders, practitioners and clinicians, policy makers, advocates, and foundation representatives who believe that the wide-scale and high-quality implementation of evidence-based prevention will: substantially improve the quality of Americans’ lives, and result in major long-term cost savings by...