Our Team

Center Partners

The RAND Corporation is a research organization that develops solutions for public policy challenges to help make communities throughout the world safer and more secure, healthier, and more prosperous. RAND brings significant experience in conducting reviews of evidence and primary research on school and afterschool-based SEL and safety initiatives. RAND will advise on evidence-based programs and practices for SEL and school safety and will serve as the Center’s evaluator.

The center will be led by WestEd, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research, development, and service agency, working nationally to promote excellence, achieve equity, and improve learning and other outcomes for children, youth, and adults. Across all content-specific areas of WestEd’s education and human development work, the agency offers a range of research, evaluation, consulting, technical assistance, professional learning, tools and measures, and policy analysis. WestEd will provide overall vision and leadership for the center, subject-matter expertise, project administration, and stakeholder coordination.