Focus Area Portfolio Posts

iRT develops innovative, research-based training and resources to promote safe driving using both individual and environmental prevention strategies.

iRT develops online and school-based programs to bring mindfulness into the lives of children and adolescents.

Mentoring provides role models, social connectedness and a sense of belonging, and skills development for millions of youth and young adults. iRT studies mentoring as well as develops tools and services to support mentoring programs to maximize their impact on mentees.

iRT develops tools and resources to translate scientific knowledge into implementation strategies to improve workplace safety and health, with a particular focus on small businesses.

Preventing violence is a key concern for every school, youth-serving organization, and community; and it requires not only reducing violent behaviors, but also promoting positive behaviors that can buffer against the risk factors encountered by youth. iRT is dedicated to developing effective, scalable, developmentally appropriate, engaging interventions to address the issue of interpersonal violence.

iRT is committed to preventing substance use and misuse through the development of evidence-based programs and services.

iRT is dedicated to increasing the recruitment and retention of underrepresented groups, such as first-generation college students, students from ethnic or racial minority groups, women, and persons with a disability, into STEM careers.

iRT develops programs and services to improve the lives of people with disabilities.

Access to effective, high-quality, online educational resources provides a critically important avenue to improve equity, standardization, and scalability to our nation’s youth. iRT is at the forefront of developing multimedia-rich, accessible, interactive, web- and mobile-based eLearning programs.

We are immersed in a media world. iRT has unparalleled expertise in teaching children, teens, parents, and teachers skills to navigate through thousands of media messages to be able to make healthy, responsible, independent decisions.