Join Center for CTC Director Dr. Kevin Haggerty on February 14 to discuss “The Power of Community Activated Prevention.” To register, click HERE!

Communities that Care: Building Community Engagement and Capacity to Prevent Youth Behavior Problems, published by Oxford University Press is available now! Order now direct from the publisher, Oxford,or via Amazon.

From the publisher: Scholars and policymakers increasingly call for evidence-based, prevention-oriented, and community-driven approaches to improve public health and reduce youth crime, substance use, and related problems. However, few functionalMore

The Center for Communities That Care will host a training of facilitators March 5-7, 2019 in Seattle, Washington. This is an opportunity for CTC coordinators and facilitators to learn how to use CTC’s web-based platform to facilitate CTC PLUS implementation in their community.

Registration deadline: February 15, 2019. Space is limited.

Email for registration instructions and additional information: ctr4ctc@uw.edu.

Join CTC Coordinators from around to the country for a discussion on February 14th, hosted by Center for CTC Specialist Jaclynn Sagers.

If you have ideas or requests for future topics, please let us know by sending an email to Dalene Beaulieu or to the Center for CTC. This group offers CTC Coordinators/Facilitators a chance toMore

On April 6, 2918, we lost a dear friend and benefactor, Heide Felton. Heide was a true believer in promoting healthy development and preventing behavioral problems. She and her husband, Matthew, were among the original investors who created the University of Washington’s first Endowed Professorship in Prevention, held by Professor J. David Hawkins from 1999 through 2017. That professorship providedMore

Make plans now to join us at the Blueprints Conference in Denver, April 30 – May 2, 2018. The Center for Communities That Care will host a CTC pre-conference for current CTC implementers. Come spend the day with us to share new tools, including: strategies for using the Phase 5 CTC PLUS tools to ensure high quality implementation of BlueprintsMore

A new Surgeon General’s report finds alcohol and drug misuse and severe substance use disorders, commonly called addiction, to be one of America’s most pressing public health concerns. Nearly 21 million Americans – more than the number of people who have all cancers combined – suffer from substance use disorders.

“Alcohol and drug addiction take an enormous toll on individuals,More

Join co-sponsors, Senators Patty Murray and Lamar Alexander, at the Capitol Visitor’s Center in Washington, DC for a briefing that brings together researchers and evaluators, practitioners, policymakers, and parents to discuss the effectiveness of family-focused prevention interventions, as well as personal accounts of how these interventions have had positive effects on families. CLICK HERE for more information.
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Join David Hawkins, Kevin Haggerty, Blair Brooke-Weiss, and Dalene Dutton on April 11th in Denver, Colorado for a community of learners session for communities implementing CTC and an opportunity to share successes and challenges. We will explore practices and strategies to operationalize the Social Development Strategy in CTC communities. We will also explore the eCTC’s web-based platform and experiences of currentMore

A new paper in Prevention Science using data from the Community Youth Development Study (Rhew et al. 2015) did not find effects of CTC on reducing problem behaviors in repeated cross-sectional samples of 6th, 8th and 10th grade students. Although drug use and delinquency generally decreased in prevalence in CTC communities for each of these grades over the course ofMore