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increasing
access to and use of basic human services by the needy
(e.g., immunization recruitment, use of shelters and
kitchens by homeless persons)
safer drinking
and other drug use, smoking cessation, safer sexual
practices
reducing
accidents (in residential and work
settings)
changing
unsafe driving practices
mental health
resources for rural areas
mental health
and prevention practices for particular groups (homeless,
juveniles)
energy
conservation (e.g., using public rather than private
transportation)
recycling more
and more consistently
community
empowerment in neighborhood crime
prevention
encouraging
home owners to test for lead in water, to use filters and
other lead reduction strategies
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School and
teacher accountability (School voucher programs, teacher
incentives)
Affirmative
action policy evaluation (assumptions and
outcomes)
Sex Education
curriculum in schools (issues of child, parent, and/or
school rights, appropriateness,
prevention)
School
tracking (policy evaluation, educational outcomes,
alternatives)
Compensatory
education programs (evaluation, outcomes)
Multicultural/diversity
programs on school campuses (characteristics,
assumptions, evaluation)
Gender equity
in education (research, policy)
parent
involvement in schools (research and
intervention)
school
structure and school impact (e.g., effects of size,
school type)
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measuring and
reducing risk of assault, eliminating date
rape
prevalence,
prevention, and coping strategies for harassment, e.g.,
stalking
reducing risk
of property crimes (e.g., of theft from rooms, offices,
cars)
reducing
vandalism, assaults on others
employment
facilitating (e.g., running a Jobs or Grad School
Club)
literacy
empowerment
sexual
harassment policy
welfare reform
policy and effectiveness
child abuse
prevention programs and policy (program assumptions,
efficacy)
juveniles and
legal system (treatment,
prevention/intervention)
school
violence (prevention efforts,
effectiveness)
domestic abuse
(prevention/intervention, program evaluation,
policy)
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