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Vigil at York

Candlelight vigil for child abuse awareness set for April 5 at Penn State York

3/28/18

Penn State York students in the Council on Family Relations (PSY-CFR) Club, and members of other human development and family studies (HD FS) classes are preparing for the seventh annual candlelight vigil for child abuse awareness set for Thursday, April 5 at the campus. The vigil takes place at 5:30 p.m., but other programming and information will be available beginning at 4 p.m. as part of the weekly Coffee Hour on campus.

Meg Small and Emily Waterman

Waterman receives CCWRC ‘Partner in Prevention’ award

5/30/17

Emily Waterman, a doctoral candidate in Penn State's Department of Human Development and Family Studies and a Prevention and Methodology Training Fellow, was presented with the Centre County Women’s Resource Center Partner in Prevention Award at the Center’s 7th annual Celebration Luncheon on Tuesday, May 23.

Diana Fishbein

Fishbein to present at translational research conference

9/30/16

Diana Fishbein, director of the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center and C. Eugene Bennett Chair in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, will be one of the primary speakers at the second annual symposium for the University of Minnesota’s Institute for Translational Research in Children’s Mental Health. The conference, “Moving Toward Precision Healthcare in Children’s Mental Health: New Perspectives, Methodologies and Technologies in Therapeutics and Prevention,” will take place Oct. 5-7.

Teacher Stress and Health series

Research brief addresses teacher stress and health

9/28/16

The Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have released a social and emotional learning brief—Teacher Stress and Health: Effects on Teachers, Students and Schools—the first in a 10-part series. This first brief examines the causes and consequences of teacher stress—a growing problem with nearly one-half of teachers reporting high daily stress and more teachers leaving the profession than ever before.

Bennett Lecture in Prevention Science 2016

Bennett Lecture to highlight rural drug prevention programs

9/27/16

Gene Brody, founder and director of the Center for Family Research and Regents’ Professor of Child and Family Development at the University of Georgia, will present the 2016 Bennett Lecture in Prevention Science from 4 to 5 p.m. Oct. 20 in 110 Henderson Building.

Economic Evidence

HDFS faculty member moderates panel on economics of preventive interventions

5/2/16

Daniel Max Crowley, assistant professor of human development and family studies and faculty affiliate of the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center at Penn State, led a conversation among stakeholders on May 2 in Washington, D.C., regarding "Advancing the Power of Economic Evidence to Inform Investments in Children, Youth, and Families," a consensus report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Translational Behavioral Medicine

Special journal issue features new model of translational science

4/18/16

Diana H. Fishbein, along with co-editors Ty A. Ridenour, Mindy Stahl and Steve Sussman, outlined the full translational spectrum of prevention science in a special issue of the Springer publication, Translational Behavioral Medicine. Fishbein is director of the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center (PRC), C. Eugene Bennett Chair in Prevention Research, and professor of human development and family studies at Penn State.

York Vigil

Vigil serves as a reminder to do the right thing, 'Lest we forget'

4/7/16

“Lest we forget.” These are words that continue to hold great meaning for students in the Penn State York Council on Family Relations (PSY-CFR) Club as they prepare for the fifth annual candlelight vigil for child abuse awareness set for April 14. The event will take place at 5 p.m. at the Nittany Lion Shrine Plaza in front of the John J. Romano Administration Building, 1031 Edgecomb Ave., in York, and is free and open to the public. In case of inclement weather, the event will take place inside the building. The Student Veterans Association (SVA) is also sponsoring the vigil.

police car at night

Penn State EPISCenter guides police with crime prevention

3/7/16

As tensions remain high between citizens and police in many communities across the nation, a Pennsylvania police department has reached out to Penn State researchers for help using prevention science to both prevent crime and strengthen police-community relations.

AFI project

Kinesiology students address resources, health problem areas in Pennsylvania

2/12/16

Penn State kinesiology students conducted a project to learn how social norms, health issues and resources can affect a city's physical activity and overall health. While there is no single prescription to find a balance, the students used the American Fitness Index to create action plans for seven Pennsylvania cities, including Allentown, Scranton, State College, Reading, York, Erie and Lancaster, to start bridging the gap.

Candlelight Vigil York 2014

Vigil provides information to increase awareness of child sexual abuse

11/21/14

A crowd of about 100 gathered for the “Lest We Forget Candlelight Vigil” for child sexual abuse awareness and prevention held at Penn State York on Nov. 13. The fourth annual vigil was sponsored by the Penn State York Council on Family Relations (PSY-CFR) Club and the Student Veterans Association.

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Students plan candlelight walk in support of child abuse prevention

11/8/12

Penn State York's Human Development and Family Studies (HD FS) Club is holding a candlelight vigil and silent walk of the campus to show their support of victims of child abuse at 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15. Those who plan to participate should meet in the lobby of the Main Classroom Building, 1031 Edgecomb Ave., York. The event is open to the public. Last year the HD FS Club held a similar event in November. Participants will walk together as a unified group, circle the campus in silence and finish in the lobby of the Main Classroom Building where brief remarks will be shared regarding the HD FS Club's pledge tree project and its goal to raise public awareness of child abuse prevention. Walkers will be asked to sign a pledge and then place a paper Nittany Lion paw on the tree, which will be displayed in the building lobby for the rest of the semester.

Penn State Blue Out shirts now on sale at campus bookstore

8/31/12

Bookstores at Penn State's Commonwealth Campuses, including Beaver campus, are selling Blue Out T-shirts for Penn State's Blue Out football game against Temple, Saturday, Sept. 22, at Beaver Stadium on Penn State's University Park campus. The sale is open to the public.

The idea is the same as that of previous Penn State White Out games, to show a united front of Penn Staters and friends rallying for the same cause -- in this case the awareness and prevention of child and sexual abuse.

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