The Center for Policy Research (CPR) is a private, nonprofit research agency founded in 1981 to work with public and private sector service providers to plan, develop, and test projects that improve the effectiveness and efficiency of human service agencies and the justice, health and education systems. CPR provides comprehensive consulting, facilitation and survey research services and specializes in demonstration, evaluation, and basic research dealing with a broad array of human services including:

• Childcare and Education;
• Child Support;
• Child Welfare;
• Court Services;
• Health and Medical Issues;
• Incarceration and Reentry;
• Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution;  
• Fatherhood and Child Access;
• Poverty; and
• Violence and Intimate Partner Violence. 

To make contracting with CPR easier for federal government clients, CPR is a Management, Organizational and Business Improvement Services (MOBIS) and U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) contractor.