The Research Translation Platform sits within Penn State’s Evidence-to-Impact Collaborative and specializes in rigorously evaluating the effectiveness and impact of research translation models, including the Research-to-Policy Collaboration, SCOPE, and Family Impact Seminars. The platform implements these models at a large scale (e.g., hundreds of meetings per year) in order to experimentally test the ways in which these practices can support policymakers’ use of research evidence.

SRCD’s Child Policy Connect program bridges the gap between child development research and policymaking. In partnership with TrestleLink, SRCD is replicating the Research-to-Policy Collaboration model. This process enhances researcher-policymaker collaborations, which ensures that timely, evidence-based insights will inform Congressional policy. This initiative fosters researchers’ direct engagement with congressional staff, supports research translation efforts, and provides travel awards for Capitol Hill meetings. Through this partnership, SRCD strengthens the infrastructure for sustained, nonpartisan research impact in policymaking.

Mount Hope Family Center integrates research, clinical services, and training to support children and families affected by adversity. Through its partnership with TrestleLink, the center strengthens researcher-policymaker engagement to advance child welfare policy in New York. TrestleLink advises the legislative engagement strategy, including outreach, rapid responses to policymakers’ interests, and policy brief development. Ultimately, the goal is to support New York policy decisions that effectively prevent child maltreatment.

Guided by science, the National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives envisions a society that fosters nurturing environments and caring relationships for the well-being of all. Their mission is to prevent social ills and promote wellbeing by translating scientific knowledge into effective and sustainable practices, systems and policies.

UTHealth Houston’s Center for Violence Prevention provides a place for actionable research intended to prevent and mitigate the harm of multiple forms of violence. As Health Policy Director, Dr. Shannon Guillot-Wright provides leadership for legislative engagement and research translation. TrestleLink provides support for scheduling and organizing researchers in the Rapid Response Network.

The Translating Research into Action Center is led by Vice-Provost for Research and Innovation, Dr. Diana Burley, and her colleagues. The TrestleLink team is providing technical assistance for building research translation infrastructure and evaluation as part of an award designed to support institutional capacity development. This project involves a comprehensive array of programs that nurture research translation skills, develop strategies, seed investments, and cultivate a culture for recognizing and rewarding research impact.  

Child Maltreatment Solutions Network at Penn State is a nationally recognized research center that leads studies designed to investigate how to protect vulnerable children from abuse. This center uses the Rapid Response Network to organize scholars’ contributions to policies related to violence, child abuse and neglect, and sexual exploitation.

The Michael and Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living is a Research Center focused on public health and promotion of healthy Living. They piloted the first expansion of the RPC model in state government in the state of Texas.

EdEquity is an initiative that was developed to provide evidence on best practices to policymakers and school leaders to help every children thrive. In a previous project, EdEquity developed a Rapid Response Network of education scholars to participate in the Research-to-Policy Collaboration.

Shelley MacDermid Wadsworht, PhD directs the Center for Families and the Military Families Institute at Purdue University. In partnership with Karen Bogenschneider, Shelley supports the transition of the Family Impact Seminar model to TrestleLink.

The Center for American Entrepreneurship (CAE) is a nonpartisan, Washington, DC-based 501(c)(3) research, policy, and advocacy organization established in July of 2017. CAE’s mission is to engage policymakers in Washington and across the nation regarding the critical importance of entrepreneurs and startups to innovation, economic growth, job creation, and expanding opportunity – and to pursue a comprehensive policy agenda intended to achieve a stronger, more resilient, and inclusive U.S. economy through thriving entrepreneurship.

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