About the Tri-Ethnic Center

The Tri-Ethnic Center for Prevention research is administratively located within the Department of Psychology and College of Natural Science at Colorado State University. The Center has a 30-year history of broad-based, multidisciplinary and multifaceted research efforts aimed at understanding community dynamics and the social, psychological and cultural factors that contribute to social problems such as substance use, delinquency, dropout, intimate partner violence, HIV/AIDS, anger and anger management, school violence, avoidable injuries, car crashes and environmental and other social problems. The Center has been designated a Center of Excellence by the Colorado Commission on Higher Education and has been chosen as a Program of Research and Scholarly Excellence at Colorado State University for the past 10 years. Center faculty comprise a multidisciplinary team engaged in research aimed at understanding the underlying causes of social problems and in utilizing these findings to develop and test prevention programs at the community and individual level. There are ten full-time Ph.D. level researchers, three part-time PhD's and a support staff of approximately fifteen full time specialists, depending on current project funding.

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Current Major Funding

Current Major Funding Provided by The National Institute on Drug Abuse, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Additional funding provided by The National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse and the Colorado Tobacco Research Program.