Seattle Times colunmnist Jerry Large featured Seattle’s first CTC project in a recent post:
“A homegrown method for helping young people thrive is at long last taking root in Seattle. Communities That Care, a system for improving outcomes for families in neighborhood-specific ways, was created by two University of Washington professors and has been used successfully in cities aroundMore

UW researchers show that communities that use sound child-development practices can prevent future problems for individuals and for the community.  Read full column in Seattle Times. 

Fewer high school students across the U.S. started drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, committing crimes and engaging in violence before graduation when their towns used the Communities That Care prevention system during the teens’ middle school years.  A University of Washington study found that the positive influence of this community-led system was sustained through high school.

“These towns are safer now,More