Truman School of Government and Public Affairs

Each year, the City of Columbia and County of Boone contract with local social service agencies to provide a wide range of social services to citizens of Columbia and Boone County. Providing funding for needed services is intended to improve the quality of life for the recipients of services and the community as a whole.

For the 4th year the City/County have contracted with the Institute of Public Policy to provide a capacity evaluation of the agencies which are being considered for funding.

The goals of the provider capacity evaluation process are to:

IPP provided professional strategic planning services for a local nonprofit – Mid-Missouri Legal Services – from February through April 2017. Through courses of strategic planning and action planning sessions with members of the organization, IPP developed a three-year strategic plan for the organization.

Deliverables included:

The Missouri Housing Development Commission (MHDC) contracted with the Public Policy Research Center at the University of Missouri-St.

The Enhanced Re-Entry Project (E-REP) was designed to reduce recidivism for 224 recently released, high-risk offenders in Boone County. E-REP implements promising practices and evidenced-based principles in an outpatient re-entry program addressing key risk factors for recidivism. These risk factors include: substance use, employment, retention, and access to recovery support services.

IPP contracted with Epworth Children and Youth Services to conduct an evaluation of an adapted version of the Teen Outreach Program (TOP), and evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program.

While women represent about half of Missouri’s population, the government charged with representing their interests does not reflect this.  Engaging women in government is not only important in legislatures.  The work of local and state boards and commissions also affects women.  However, gender parity in these bodies remains a problem.  The Women’s Foundation has created the Appointments Project to address this challenge.  By helping women apply and submitting them as candidates to state and local boards, the Women’s Foundation hopes to appoint more women and, in t

The VA Hospital in Columbia, MO contracted with the Institute of Public Policy to conduct focus groups with Veterans who are enrolled in Veterans benefits but have not recently utilized healthcare benefits at the Truman VA Hospital.

The St. Louis County Department of Public Health contracts IPP to serve as the external evaluators for the Minority Youth Violence Prevention II: Project RESTORE grant. IPP conducts a Restorative Justice assessment and evaluation for the program.