Discover the impact of collaboration and explore recent study insights and results while reading about the power in community in our most recent edition of the newsletter. Visit this page to learn more about the stories behind the headlines below.

City of Pittsburgh Calls on Youth Leaders to Take Civic Action

Creating Change Agents Youth Leadership and Activism: Pittsburgh Regional Collaborative for Collective Impact

Now Recruiting: Youth Thriving Summit 2025 TPS Student Planning Committee Schools, students, and community partners are invited to bring ideas to the planning table for the 2025 Youth Thriving Summit. Please use this form to provide your contact information and our team will reach out to you with details on how to get involved.

THRIVE Update: Knowing Someone Cares Makes a Difference in Young Person’s Life

Doula for Every Family Project Reaches Completion

Healthy Start Studies Doula Support for Moms with Babies in Neonatal Intensive Care Units

Healthy Pregnancy Collabs’ Work Published in the Maternal and Child Health Journal

PA Educational Equity Gets a Boost with 3Rs Funding Award 

Connecting with Community Through Racial Literacy and Entrepreneurship

Homewood-Brushton YMCA Holds Space for Creating Peace and Youth Violence Prevention

Women for a Healthy Environment Wins National Award

CDC Visits Wilkinsburg to Experience ReCAST in Action

The Pittsburgh Study (TPS) is a collective impact initiative.  We collaborate across systems and disciplines, convening a variety of partners, organizations, and individuals to collectively promote child thriving and racial equity in our region.

TPS is not just one study. We’re made-up of multiple large and small research-informed, co-created interventions that span from pregnancy to adolescence to school-based and community-level programs.

The Pittsburgh Study is unique because we invite neighbors to be part of doing science together as Citizen Scientists.  We encourage deep involvement in all aspects of the science by serving as community co-leads and members of our scientific committees. We are committed to returning data to the people and communities who help to produce knowledge and to ensure that data are translated to action. We conduct research WITH community (not traditional approaches to research that has been done “to” or “on” communities).

We believe that community members are experts. Strengths, assets, resources, and wisdom are ever present in our neighborhoods and communities. We center community voices and expertise, and together, uplift innovative practices and local solutions.

We are accountable to research practices that promote reciprocity. We aim for equitable benefits for participants, our community, and academic scientists. We are accountable for shifting standards of equity within our networks of institutional partners. We are accountable to young people and their families. We seek to develop, model, and translate programs and practices which are anti-racist, healing-centered, and trauma-sensitive. In a word, we build toward a humanized Pittsburgh and Allegheny County.