IBS News

The Center for Resilience and Wellbeing in Schools at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Institute of Behavioral Science was launched October 1, 2017 with a five-year $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration as a part of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. The Center serves the Rocky Mountain region directly and will be national resource hub to promote safe, trauma responsive school environments.

Beverly Kingston, Director of IBS’s Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV), and Bill Woodward, director of training and technical assistance with CSPV were both recently been featured in an article on CU Boulder Today. The article highlighted CSPV's research efforts focused on violence prevention in schools. Kingston, Woodward, and CSPV have been researching youth violence and its relation to gun violence over the past few decades and Kingston will present her findings at Uniting to Prevent School Violence on April 16 at CU-Anschutz Medical Campus.

As the article states, Kingston believes the greatest change will come from shifting the culture
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"When more women are involved in group decisions about land management, the group conserves more—particularly when offered financial incentives to do so..."

In an article published in Nature Climate Change, Krister Andersson, Nathan Cook, and Tara Grillos - all from the Center for the Governance of Natural Resources - demonstrate how involving more women in local decision-making improves the effectiveness of forest conservation efforts.  The research study took place in forest communities from Indonesia, Peru, and Tanzania, and involved increasing the proportion of women within local decision-making groups.  You can read the CU Boulder Today article here, or
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Allison Atteberry, a Fellow at the Institute of Behavioral Sciences and Assistant Professor in the Research and Evaluation Methodology (REM) program within the School of Education at CU Boulder, has recently been recognized for her work evaluating Denver’s ProComp system. ProComp is intended to be a “pay-for-performance compensation system” for Denver’s public-school teachers. However, disagreements over ProComp led to teachers participating in a three-day strike in mid-February. As Atteberry points out, “There’s…. economics-based theories about why this [ProComp] should help, and then there’s the reality.” Unclear communication from Denver’s school districts about the bonus amount a teacher will receive and what
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