Services are provided to K-12 districts on promoting strategies for engaging youth as partners in school systems change -- academic, school culture, and supportive services for student physical health and psycho-social well-being. This work, a partne...

Workshops, webinars and training opportunities are provided for Michigan child welfare workers, supervisors, and foster parents. Designed in partnership with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services we coordinate a consortium of Michigan ...

Helped the City of Detroit identify short and long term actions to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, provided expert advice on the most credible, aggressive and economically viable targets, developed a replicable and complete Climate Action Plan...

Partnering with a metro Detroit middle school to investigate the impact of restorative practices on school climate and exclusionary discipline outcomes. The study aims are to: (a) examine whether establishing a restorative justice policy led to less ...

Professional development intervention to support educators' mental health and high quality, relationship based practices with children and families.

Outreach and working with underrepresented international analysts to ensure they are able to gain relevant training and certification to participate in the international intelligence community.

Outreach and working with underrepresented international analysts to ensure they are able to gain relevant training and certification to participate in the international intelligence community.

A team of students participate in Operation UNITED which is a grassroots effort by the Detroit Office of the FBI and the Detroit Police Department to identify homicide victims from cases that have gone cold. These individuals are exhumed and bones ar...

The Department of Political Science's Public Service Internship Program facilitates student internships with state legislators, the Governor's Office, State Supreme Court and lower courts, local government offices, nonprofits, lobbying and public rel...

Detroit Ceasefire has been a cornerstone of Detroit’s violence reduction strategies. Ceasefire involves a focused deterrence model aimed at gang- and group- related violence. It involves direct communication of a deterrence message to high-risk indiv...

Funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Detroit CBCR seeks to reduce crime in select micro-hotspots in the Eastside of Detroit by directly addressing crime through enforcement strategies and by addressing underlying causes of crime. The project s...

Detroit CGIC seeks to prevent violent crime by identifying perpetrators, linking criminal activities, and identifying sources of crime guns for immediate disruption, investigation, and prosecution. It is an interagency collaboration focused on the im...

This initiative is an arrest diversion program which seeks to address low level offenses, including opioid and other illicit drug use, as public health issues rather than criminal issues providing immediate access to comprehensive, community-based se...

Detroit Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) involves a multi-agency collaboration of local, state, and federal criminal justice agencies, community partners, and a research partner (i.e. MSU School of Criminal Justice) following a data-driven strategic ...

PGLD is a place-based crime prevention strategy which involved the establishment of a formal partnership between the city of Detroit, Detroit Police Department (DPD), and small business owners and parcel owners. The crime control strategy employed by...

This project seeks to address opioid and violent crime within the city of Detroit. This includes the assessment of the geospatial distribution of opioid and violent crimes incidents to identify patterns which can inform strategic and tactical underst...

The primary outcome of a GCIC is the identification of armed violent offenders for investigation and prosecution. Other outcomes include the identification of crime gun sources, efficient resource allocation, providing decision makers with the most a...

With a focus on Detroit’s 9th precinct, which has historically experienced the highest levels of violent crime in the city, the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office (WCPO) is attacking the problem from multiple angles. First, it developed a dedicated NFS...

Evaluation of a mentoring program for people returning to Wayne county on parole. Graduate and undergraduate students participated.

Evaluation of a Bureau of Justice Assistance funded study of the effects of a mentoring program on participants.

The purpose of all field education courses is to provide students opportunities to develop their professional social work skills in various settings across the state of Michigan that meet course competencies (ethics, DEI, policy, human rights, resear...

This is a research study about Detroit neighborhoods, and the physical activity levels and health of residents. The study aims to understand physical activity and neighborhood conditions that support healthy residents. We hope that this study can bui...

InnovateGov prepares and delivers MSU’s most vital resource – talented and motivated students – to Detroit’s civic institutions while providing students with a one-of-a-kind opportunity to do real and impactful work on the city’s most critical social...

The Hearts and Minds on Babies study is a five-year implementation and evaluation study of an attachment-based intervention in Early Head Start programs. Collected data from community partners; provided training to community partners; coded and analy...

The Teacher Stress study aims to understand the sources and intensity of stress for Early Head Start teachers, as well as the ways in which teachers cope with their work-related stress. Collected data from teachers in community partner agencies; anal...