Our Mission

To create and identify evidence based principles and practices that can be used to improve the effectiveness of public services and policies that affect children and families;

To develop and provide training and technical assistance consistent with this evidence-based approach.

To facilitate planning efforts and conduct
evaluations that lead to the improvement of public services and public policies that affect children and families.

The Center for Learning Excellence at the Ohio State University helps agencies and organizations meet the educational, behavioral health, human services and youth work force development needs of the people they serve. The Center helps customers build capacity to make better decisions about child and family serving policies and programs by: conducting research or translating research findings to identify evidence-based practices that lead to positive outcomes, providing training and technical assistance consistent with the evidence-based approach and evaluating or helping customers to perform evaluations to measure the effectiveness of policies and programs.

Our Vision

Customers of the Center for Learning Excellence will make better decisions that lead to the improvement of the public services they provide for children, youth and families and the public policies they develop and carry out.