Expertise that moves communities forward

Making an Impact

At CPPR, we help partners move from insight to action—giving partners clarity, funders confidence, and communities momentum for lasting change. Our approach blends rigorous research, community engagement, and implementation expertise to support ideas from development through sustained impact.

Our work is about more than projects—it’s about people. When communities, data, and lived experience come together, powerful things happen.

From Insight to Action

How States Are Integrating Child Care Into Rural Health Transformation

CPPR analyzed Rural Health Transformation Program proposals from all 50 states to identify how child care is being integrated into rural health system transformation and where opportunities exist to better align health and early childhood initiatives.

CPPR Brings Compassionate Coordination to Maternal Mortality Prevention Conference

Working with statewide partners, CPPR has helped bring together health care providers, public health leaders, and community organizations to strengthen collaboration, share knowledge, and improve systems of care for mothers and families.

How Strengthening Family Well-Being Prevents Need for Foster Care

A growing body of research shows these separations are preventable. A study from the University of Kansas Center for Public Partnerships and Research highlights that early childhood services remain underused tools for keeping families intact — and reducing long-term costs to the state.

Reducing Child Removals Strengthens Family Integrity and Well-Being

By swiftly identifying the underlying needs of children, youth, and families served by child welfare, the comprehensive array of Family First services was systemically responsive in connecting families to appropriate supports, such as mental health, parental skill-building, kinship navigation, and substance use disorder treatment.

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Our Commitment

We work alongside public agencies, nonprofits, funders, and community members to tackle complex challenges and create systems that help children and families thrive—now and into the future. We are devoted to advancing:
• Family well-being
• Physical and emotional health
• Economic stability for all