SDRG In The News
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9/19/2016
J. David Hawkins is the 2016 recipient of the Joan McCord Award from the American Academy of Experimental Criminology. The Joan McCord Award recognizes distinguished experimental contributions to criminology and criminal justice. Award recipients must have conducted significant experimental research that in the tradition of Joan McCord, has important implications for policy and practice. The award can be given to a specific randomized controlled trial or a group of experiments leading to significant policy outcomes. The award will be presented at a special session at the American Society of Criminology Meeting in New Orleans in November. Dr. Hawkins will deliver the McCord lecture at the conference. read more...
8/12/2016
Kevin Haggerty participates in a webinar on Evidence2Success Haggerty recently participated in a webinar on the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Evidence2Success framework, which is closely related to SDRG’s CTC. The second in a series, this webinar focused on Evidence2Success tools that communities can use to improve well-being and outcomes in their children. read more...
7/21/2016
Hawkins and Catalano, American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare fellows, cited as high-impact social work scholars In a recent article (Hodge, D. R., Kremer, K. P., & Vaughn, M. G. (2016). High-impact social work scholars: A bibliometric examination of SSWR and AASWSW fellows. Research on Social Work Practice, Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/1049731516645929) identifying and describing the bibliometric contributions of high-impact social work faculty, Hodge and colleagues found that the individual with the highest h-index (a measure of lifetime scholarly impact) is Dr. J. David Hawkins, followed closely by Dr. Richard F. Catalano. In scholarly impact adjusted for career length, Catalano ranked second and Hawkins third. The results of this study indicate that the social work profession includes many researchers who are making an exceptional scientific impact, with Catalano and Hawkins being among the top scholars. read more...
7/21/2016
The Huffington Post: Unleashing the Power of Prevention Anthony Biglan, in a Huffington Post blog, describes SDRG’s CTC program as an example of the potential of prevention science and the use of tested effective programs for significantly improving human wellbeing. read more...
6/6/2016
Kevin Haggerty receives the 2016 Prevention Science Award from the Society for Prevention Research This award is given for the work of developing and testing prevention strategies. Dr. Haggerty is an international leader in the field of prevention research, developing and evaluating prevention strategies, and for the last 25 years has directed nearly all clinical intervention strategies at SDRG. His research spans the prevention translation continuum and includes basic etiological research on risk and protective factors for substance use, development, implementation, and evaluation of efficacy trials, and implementation an evaluation effectiveness trials. Dr. Haggerty has dedicated his career to reducing substance use and other problem behaviors among youth and adults and to improving the social conditions that promote well-being and increase health equity. read more...
6/6/2016
David Hawkins receives the 2016 Friend of ECPN Award from the Society for Prevention Research The award is presented to a mid-career or senior preventionist who has supported and encouraged early career prevention scientists or issues. Dr. Hawkins is known for his passion for prevention and his commitment to excellence in research and mentoring. He has made efforts for many years to support and mentor early career scientists in becoming leaders in prevention science and has illustrated his supportive mentoring through coauthoring numerous presentations, manuscripts, and other publications with early career scientists. He understands what early career scientists need to succeed as they advance in their careers and mentors in such a way as to develop successful prevention scientists and junior faculty. read more...
3/25/2016
David Hawkins presents at Congressional Briefing, April 19: Supporting Healthy Parenting through Primary Care read more...
7/30/2015
UW-led group launches plan to reduce youth problems by 20 percent in a decade read more...
6/28/2015
Marijuana taxes may not be used for prevention as campaign promised SDRG's Kevin Haggerty and Rick Kosterman featured in KUOW story. read more...
6/22/2015
Institue of Medicine Individually Authored Perspectives paper by Hawkins and colleagues: Unleashing the Power of Prevention read more...
5/28/2015
Kevin Haggerty received the Translational Science Award which is given to an individual in recognition for contributions to the field of prevention science in the area of Type 1 or Type 2 translational research. Kevin was cited for his ability to “effectively, efficiently and elegantly” take state-of-the-art prevention science and translate it into real-world settings for those most in need. read more...
5/28/2015
Karl Hill received the Friend of ECPN Award which is presented to a mid-career or senior preventionist who has supported and encouraged early career prevention scientists or issues. Karl was recognized for his “deep and genuine commitment" to supporting early career prevention scientists. read more...
5/27/2015
Sabrina Oesterle received the Science Award for Best Injury Science Oral Presentation at the 2015 conference of the Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR) for her presentation, “Preventing Adolescent Delinquency and Violence using the Communities That Care Prevention System: Findings from a Community-Randomized Trial.” read more...
4/21/2015
Kevin Haggerty participates in a press conference to sustain I-502 dollars for prevention and research read more...
4/1/2015
David Hawkins participates in OJJDP Webinar: Communities that Care: Building Trust and Preventing Crime read more...
4/1/2015
Webinar to Discuss Communities That Care: Building Trust and Preventing Crime On April 8, 2015, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. ET, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) will host “Communities that Care: Building Trust and Preventing Crime.” Jim Bueermann, President of the Police Foundation and former chief of the Redlands, CA, police department, and Dr. David Hawkins, founding director of the University of Washington’s Social Development Research Group, will describe the Communities That Care (CTC) prevention system and its community-wide effects on youth crime, violence and drug use as well as on improving police-community relations. This webinar will provide participants with a model for enhancing community trust in law enforcement through the use of CTC and will help participants understand how policing organizations can adopt an organizational focus on "controlling crime before it happens" by reducing risk factors and increasing protective factors. read more...
3/31/2015
Research shows that teens and adults are uncertain about legalities of marijuana law in Washington State read more...
3/9/2015
Study shows teens and adults hazy on Washington marijuana law. More than two years after Washington legalized marijuana, parents and teens may be hazy on the specifics of the law, if the findings of a new study are any indication. read more...
1/28/2015
Child maltreatment not a clear path to adult crime. Research has found a significant link between childhood abuse and neglect and crime in adulthood. But a recent University of Washington study finds that link all but disappears when accounting for other life factors. read more...
11/24/2014
Congratulations to J. David Hawkins who was awarded the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Criminology Division of Developmental and Life-course Criminology “for sustained and outstanding contributions to scholarly knowledge on developmental and life-course criminology.” read more...
11/7/2014
Richard F. Catalano presented the University of Michigan Injury Center Distinguished Faculty Seminar: Building Prevention Infrastructure to Reduce Delinquency, Violence and Substance Use: Communities That Care. To watch the seminar online, click on the "read more" link below. read more...
10/17/2014
SDRG's Sabrina Oesterle receives NIH award for research exploring the use of social media to advance the scientific understanding, prevention, and treatment of substance use and addiction. Her project will use Facebook to recruit parents to a parenting program to prevent teen drug use. read more...
10/15/2014
Webinar to be presented on Friday, October 17 (9-10 AM PDT) : Workshop by Del Elliott and David Hawkins on Blueprints Standards and Issues in Identifying Blueprints Programs, presented at the 2014 Blueprints Conference. The Blueprints program review process is described and the standard for certifying programs as evidence-based Model or Promising Blueprint Programs is outlined. The reviews of program evaluations by the Blueprints Advisory Board using this standard reveal a number of common problems with their design and methodology that disqualify them for certification as a Blueprint Program. We will describe eight frequently encountered evaluation issues with the hope that program developers and researchers will design and report their evaluations to address these issues and increase the number of evaluations that meet the Blueprint Standard for certification. read more... |
