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American society is faced with pervasive problems confronting individuals, families, and communities. Issues of child and youth development, of economic competitiveness, of environmental quality, of violence and crime, and of health and health care, require creative solutions and the design, deployment, and evaluation of innovative public policies and intervention programs. There is increasing pressure for universities to take an active role in the development of innovative solutions to these societal problems. Michigan State University has responded to such pressures to design and deliver knowledge applications, in part, through its Applied Developmental Science Program (Fitzgerald, Abrams, Church, Votruba, & Imig, 1996; Lerner, Lerner, Nguyen, Pease, Reiling, Firlan, White, & Freel, 1994). The overarching goal of the ADS Program is to establish university-community partnerships that focus on resolution of community-defined problems.
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Fitzgerald, H.E., Abrams, L.A., Andrews, M., Villarruel, F., Brown, R., Reed, C.S. (1999). Checkpoints: Building Capacity to Enhance Program Impact Through Evaluation. In: Chibucos, T.R., Lerner, R.M. (eds) Serving Children and Families Through Community-University Partnerships. Outreach Scholarship, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5053-2_27
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