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Center for Assessment and Policy Development

The Center for Assessment and Policy Development (CAPD) is a non-profit organization founded in 1987. Our mission is to help institutions, communities, and public systems improve outcomes for children, adolescents, and families. Issues on which we work include: antiracism, particularly efforts to reduce or eliminate institutional racism; improving the health, positive development, and early school success of young children; family support and empowerment; education; adolescent parenting; violence prevention; community change; leadership; and civic engagement.

Our intent is to help those with whom we work strengthen their own capacities to address these issues. We do this by helping them to craft and execute thoughtful responses to pressing social issues. We employ multiple strategies to carry out our mission. For example, we plan, design and help to implement community/foundation partnerships; write position papers and do policy analysis; and provide evaluation and technical assistance for community groups, non-profit institutions, state and local governments, schools, and corporate and private foundations.

The theme that ties our work together is positive social change. To each effort, we bring: extensive experience in our fields of expertise; familiarity with a broad range of strategies that promote change at family, institutional, community, and system levels; and an analytic approach that fosters state-of-the-art solutions to complex and long-standing social problems.

For more information: Visit www.capd.org or contact Sally Leiderman at sleiderman@capd.org