CTC Facilitator Jamie Rushford, B.S., CPS was recently interviewed by the Center for CTC on how a coalition in a small rural community engages their youth.
Top: Members worked on community mapping during a CTC meeting. From left to right, LindaMore
SDRG Director, Margaret Kuklinski and Center for CTC Director of Training and Family Programs, Dalene Beaulieu at their presentation , “Increasing Uptake of Effective Parenting Programs: Lessons from Implementing Guiding Good Choices”
Members of SDRG’s Center for Communities that Care participated in the European Society for Prevention Research’s annual meeting in Cremona, Italy, during the week of September 9, 2024. Dr. Margaret Kuklinski and Dr. Nicole Eisenberg from the Center attended the conference, where CTCMore
Communities That Care’s Director, Margaret Kuklinski, PhD joined the Bipartisan Policy Center and the Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE) for an in-depth discussion on the opioid epidemic ahead of the election. Experts shared insights from a recent national survey on Americans’ views of the opioid epidemic and evaluated the government’s response to the crisis.More
Communities that Care (CTC) was recently featured in a Freakonomics Radio series shedding light on promising efforts to combat the opioid epidemic. Keith Humphreys, Professor of Psychiatry and an Addiction Researcher at Stanford University highlighted CTC and the work of the Social Development Research Group to demonstrate the potential for evidence-based strategies and community engagement in tackling complexMore
Are you interested in becoming a 2024 CADCA Blue Ribbon Coalition? This is your coalition’s opportunity to receive national recognition from CADCA and the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) for achieving evidence-based and positive community-level outcomes.
The Blue Ribbon Initiative is the only community credential awarded toMore
On March 20th, the Great Lakes Prevention Technology Transfer Center is hosting Dr. Kevin Haggerty for a 90 minute webinar exploring The National Institute on Drug Abuse – NIDA‘s Monitoring the Future data and how to identify tested and effective prevention programs.
This 90-minute webinar will explore national andMore
The UW School of Social Work‘s Social Development Research Group has recently published a research brief. This brief reviews a study done on a resource for parents of college students. The study found that a new handbook developed by SDRG researchers and the Department of Human Development at Washington State University (WSU), successfullyMore
For those of you that utilize SAMHSA‘s National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) the Results from the 2022 National Survey on Drug Use and Health has been released. Check out the following links:
https://urldefense.com/…/2022-nsduh-nnr.pdf__;!!K…
Margaret Kuklinski, Director of The Center for Communities that Care, shared comments with ABC News to discuss the newly published study highlighting prevention work done by Communities That Care. This study highlights the effect of CTC on adolescents’ handgun-carrying in rural areas. UW Researchers conducted a study of more than 4,000 adolescents across 24 communities in seven states. ByMore
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