SDRG In The News
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12/9/2013
Communities across U.S. reduce teen smoking, drinking, violence and crime Communities across U.S. reduce teen smoking, drinking, violence and crime read more...
11/13/2013
Associate Director Kevin P. Haggerty, Rick Kosterman, and Jennifer A. Bailey presented a set of talks on prevention of youth marijuana use at the Symposium on Legal Marijuana in Washington: Shaping a Research Agenda conference sponsored by the University of Washington Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute on Wednesday, November 13, 2013 read more...
10/4/2013
The Quincy Communities That Care Coalition awarded Drug-Free Communities grant funds read more...
9/21/2013
Maine's Five Town Communities That Care coalition has increasingly global reach read more...
9/13/2013
Richard F. Catalano elected to membership in the Washington State Academy of Sciences read more...
6/19/2013
Dr. Eric Brown receives the 2013 Society for Prevention Research International Collaborative Prevention Research Award read more...
2/5/2013
Taking action toward a healthier America. Leading Health Indicators Webinar: Substance Abuse. read more...
1/17/2013
A cure for social ills? Prevention UW researcher is a leader in showing how prevention techniques can pay off in curing social problems. read more...
12/20/2012
Prevention System Has Lasting Effects, Benefit Exceeds Costs Towns that implemented a drug abuse prevention program called Communities That Care will see a return of $5.30 for each $1 they invested during the 5 year trial of the intervention, according to a cost-benefit analysis. read more...
11/15/2012
Richard Catalano becomes American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare fellow Richard Catalano, director of the Social Development Research Group at the UW’s School of Social Work, was inducted as a fellow into the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare Nov. 10. read more...
10/16/2012
Marriage, education can help improve well-being of adults abused as children Researchers investigating the long-term consequences of child abuse have identified some protective factors that can improve the health of victims during their adulthood read more...
10/15/2012
White House recognizes Navasota, Texas for implementing Raising Healthy Children youth development program read more...
7/31/2012
Evidence2Success to promote children's health in Providence The Annie E. Casey Foundation announced Tuesday that it has chosen Providence to be its first site for Evidence2Success, its new, evidence-based approach to promote healthy child development. read more...
7/18/2012
SDRG Founding Director presents at Center for Substance Abuse Prevention-National Institute on Drug Abuse Innovations in Prevention Symposium Series read more...
7/10/2012
Multiracial youths show similar vulnerability to peer pressure as whites Researchers who studied a large sample of middle- and high-school students in Washington state found that mixed-race adolescents are more similar to their white counterparts than previously believed. read more...
7/10/2012
International Seminar on Communities That Care Held in Santiago, Chile The neighborhood of La Legua, in the community of San Joaquín, and Carmelitos 2 of Estación Central (Santiago, Chile), are in favor of applying prevention programs and strategies through the United States based prevention system Communities that Care (CTC). read more...
7/3/2012
"It's the economics, stupid": SPR conference 2012 Economic evaluation in prevention science has experienced rapid growth in recent years. At the 20th Annual Meeting of the Society for Prevention Research (SPR) in Washington, D.C. earlier this month, a panel of experts discussed important developments and argued that economic data could improve the uptake of evidence by policy makers. read more...
6/14/2012
J. David Hawkins and Richard F. Catalano receive Presidential Award from the Society for Prevention Research. The award is given to those who have made a major lifetime contribution to prevention science research. The Presidential Award is given to those who have made a major lifetime contribution to prevention science research. This year, we are pleased and proud to present the Presidential Award to Dr. Richard F. Catalano and Dr. J. David Hawkins. They have worked together as partners for more than three decades to further the goals of prevention science and are among a small group of scholars who have applied theory and empirical findings to the prevention of social problems. read more...
6/13/2012
Intervention to improve foster families' trust, connectedness The key ingredients for a successful foster family aren't complicated, said former foster youths in a new study. Most adolescents in foster care simply need a stable home life that provides a sense of belonging, love and someone who shows a genuine interest in their lives. But the new study, by researchers at the University of Washington, also revealed that the most common challenges in foster families included overwhelmed foster parents and a lack of trust between caregivers and foster children. read more...
5/10/2012
Adolescents: From the Margins to the Mainstream of Global Health On April 26, 2012, The Lancet, the Centre for Adolescent Health, Melbourne, Australia and the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University presented an academic symposium titled, "Adolescents: From the Margins to the Mainstream of Global Health." This event was in support of the release of a ground-breaking new Lancet series on Adolescent Health in New York City during the week of April 22, 2012. read more...
4/25/2012
Young people's health is not keeping pace Although the health of the world's infants and children has improved significantly in the past 50 years, that same success has not been achieved for adolescents and young adults, say reports out today. read more...
4/25/2012
Global Application of Prevention Science - Catalano et al article in Lancet Adolescent Health Series As childhood and adolescent deaths from infectious diseases have declined worldwide, policymakers are shifting attention to preventing deaths from noncommunicable causes, such as drug and alcohol use, mental health problems, obesity, traffic crashes, violence and unsafe sex practices. read more... |
