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Prevention systems like Communities That Care should be used to help at-risk youths before they enter the system say researchers in an article published this week in the journal Pediatrics, and featured on NPR. Read the full article here.

On May 7th the Tooele City Council celebrated the last 10 years of prevention success with the premier of a new commercial for Guiding Good Choices featuring Miss Utah, Danica Olsen-Baker.    The clip will air locally in Tooele at the Motor Vu Drive In.  Watch here!

Don’t miss an informative CTC webinar on Friday, March 14 at 9:00am Pacific Time!

One of the most challenging aspects in advancing the use of evidence-based programs is engaging community stakeholders, helping them to identify their community’s needs, and the programs that will best meet those needs. For 20More

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