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The Research Institute at Western Oregon University is an innovative and unique grant funded department on campus that supports the university\u2019s mission and core value focus areas including valuing community and embracing diversity by producing measurable outcomes in communities across the state and the nation. The Research Institute at Western Oregon University has a 60 year history of working in education, family and community services, and ability services and has produced academic and research to practice based products and services that are still in use in classrooms and schools today.\u00a0<\/p>\n
TRI has an annual budget of approximately $8.5 million through grants and contracts with a variety of funders including various departments within the state of Oregon, county governments, other universities, non-profit organizations and foundations. TRI is continually working to better serve our communities, and over half of our full time employees are fluent in at least one additional language besides English.<\/p>\n
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The Research Institute (TRI) at Western Oregon University improves the quality of life for individuals by facilitating positive change in education, health, and human services systems. To attain this vision, TRI conducts a comprehensive multi-disciplinary program of research, evaluation, program\/model training, development, technical assistance, direct service, and dissemination serving both typical and special populations of all ages at the local, state, regional, and national levels.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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TRI is guided by partnerships with consumers, families, and practitioners and measures the effectiveness of its work by the impact on their lives. TRI is committed to ensuring equality and valuing diversity, essential elements to the fulfillment of the institutional mission.\u00a0TRI promotes excellence by working to ensure access to fully inclusive environments in order for all staff to achieve their professional and personal goals.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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Using rigorous and reliable research design, TRI has the expertise to create, implement, evaluate and report on research pertaining to the human capacity to learn, grow, and succeed. TRI has the experience and skills to implement research-based practices and to provide effective professional trainings across the areas of Education, Health, and Human Services.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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Current work continues to align with local, state and national issues in regular and special education, public health and human services. TRI projects are working in every state within the country, as well as Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the Pacific Basin.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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If you have a research or project idea, or are working on a project that might benefit from the services at TRI, please feel free to contact us.<\/p>\r\n","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-754","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/tri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/tri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/tri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/tri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/tri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/tri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24185,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/tri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/754\/revisions\/24185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/tri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}