The Mis­souri Pre­ven­tion Sci­ence Insti­tute was found­ed in 2007 by Uni­ver­si­ty of Mis­souri fac­ul­ty mem­bers, Wendy Reinke and Kei­th Her­man.  Wheels were put into motion by invit­ing inter­est­ed fac­ul­ty and stu­dents from across cam­pus to a meet­ing in August 2007.  Dur­ing the first two months, after a series of dis­cus­sions with those inter­est­ed par­ty mem­bers, a vision and mis­sion state­ment was devel­oped and the MPSI was born.

In 2019 the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mis­souri rec­og­nized MPSI as a cam­pus Cen­ter to sup­port our mis­sion, to grow inter­dis­ci­pli­nary col­lab­o­ra­tion, engage­ment, and high-impact research.

Since fund­ing for endeav­ors such as the MPSI are increas­ing­ly depen­dent upon a clear-cut con­cept struc­ture, the next step was to devise a log­ic mod­el for the Insti­tute.  Dis­cus­sions with the team were expand­ed and a broad­er logis­ti­cal and con­cep­tu­al mod­el for the MPSI was devel­oped.  Our final log­ic mod­el depicts the flow from our vision to our core val­ues and assess­ments that under­lie the core oper­a­tional activ­i­ties of the Institute.

What the future holds is unknown, how­ev­er, as a team, we con­stant­ly strive to uphold the val­ues and mis­sion that our Insti­tute is based upon and con­tin­ue to work to achieve the short- and long-term objec­tives defined in our log­ic mod­el. We look for­ward to con­tin­u­ing our ded­i­ca­tion to a brighter future through our research, the class­es that are offered, and the resources that we provide.