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Today the Institute of Medicine released two individually-authored perspectives on the power of prevention: Unleashing the Power of Prevention and A Challenge to Unleash the Power of Prevention. The authors “propose a grand challenge that will advance the policies, programs, funding, and workforce preparation neededMore

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 DevelopmentMore

Dr. Richard Catalano, co-developer of Communities That Care, will present a distinguished faculty seminar Wednesday, November 12 at 4pm Eastern.

Building Prevention Infrastructure to Reduce Delinquency, Violence and Substance Use: Communities that Care.
Join the University of Michigan Injury Center for a presentation of the research base for prevention of behavioral health problems and how to use communityMore

In Blueprints Standards and Issues in Identifying Blueprints Programs, Del Elliott and David Hawkins will repeat the workshop on this topic 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 usingMore

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