Project Family: A Partnership Integrating Research with the Practice of Promoting Family and Youth Competencies

Abstract

Project Family involves a community-university partnership directed toward “action-oriented research” (e.g., Small, 1995). As such, it aims to achieve two goals: To generate knowledge that will advance the science of family-focused competency building and to enhance the well-being of participating families and children. The project’s ultimate purpose is to strengthen the competencies of general population families and children on a broad scale—to ensure that a larger number of children develop into healthy and adaptive adults in the project’s targeted general populations.