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The Social Development Research Group is a nationally recognized, interdisciplinary team of researchers united in a common mission to understand and promote healthy behaviors and positive social development among diverse populations. We:

Conduct research on factors that influence development Develop and test the effectiveness of interventions Study service systems and work to improve them Advocate for science-based solutions to health and behavior problems Disseminate knowledge, tools, and expertise produced by our research

Richard F. Catalano, Jr, PhDDirector

Kevin P. Haggerty, MSW, PhD

J. David Hawkins, PhD

Charlotte Eidlin

Associate Director

Founding Director

Administrator

My 2012 sabbatical year zoomed by like a frequent f lyer. Temporarily freed from regular responsibilities at SDRG and the UW, I had the chance to pursue other projects and goals, including deepening SDRG’s involvement in international research. I visited colleagues John Toumbourou in Australia, Daniel Shek in Hong Kong, and Michael Little and Louise Morpeth at the Dartington Social Research Unit in England, and brainstormed with each about our next collaborative projects. My sabbatical was marked by the publication of a paper in The Lancet—a “late-life dissertation” for me and the culmination of 2 years of effort with a global group of colleagues, launched with press conferences and news releases on three continents. See page 3 for a summary of key messages.

Back on campus, I worked on two projects at the UW School of Social Work. The first established prevention science as a three-course certificate program in the MSW program. I also assisted Dean Edwina Uehara in bringing the concept of Grand Challenges to social work. This idea has been used successfully in mathematics and engineering to stimulate innovative solutions to complex problems just beyond the reach of current science. The process of identifying grand challenges has been taken on by the American Academy for Social Work and Social Welfare.

I returned to my role as SDRG director in September, exhausted and determined never to take another sabbatical! I also was humbled by how much work remains to improve the health of children and adolescents globally—a challenge that SDRG will continue to address well into the future. In his year as acting director, Kevin Haggerty did a great job and achieved many personal and organizational milestones. He earned his PhD in 2011, and after a successful year at the helm, was promoted to associate director.

Under Kevin’s stewardship, SDRG was very productive, publishing 41 manuscripts in 2012 and attracting funding to translate our preventive interventions to a variety of contexts. Three of our translational projects are highlighted on pages 2 to 5.

During my sabbatical I made the decision to step down as director of SDRG in September 2014, after 10 years in this position and over twice as many as associate director. I will remain at SDRG as an investigator and hope to assist the next director with the transition. I look with great happiness upon the last 34 years of growing, honing, and sustaining our particular strengths in understanding youth and young adult development, developing and testing interventions to promote positive development and prevent problems, and advocating for science-based solutions to health and behavior problems. SDRG is strong, and its investigators are scary smart. I invite you to read about what we’ve been up to this year.

Cheers!

Richard F. Catalano, PhDDirectorBartley Dobb Professor for the Study and Prevention of Violence

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Dear Friends,

Recent decades have witnessed

the development of interventions that are proven to enhance positive youth development, a major achievement in prevention science. Yet few evidence-

based programs have achieved widespread use. Meanwhile, many agencies continue to offer programs with little or no indication of efficacy. As Richard Catalano and colleagues

argued in the April 2012 edition of The Lancet (see sidebar, next page), existing evidence shows the dramatic potential of prevention science to reduce the global burden of health problems.

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Why have so few tested and effective programs been widely adopted? SDRG is taking part in several projects that expand the use of evidence-based programs in real-world contexts. These projects address factors that limit the use of effective programs by schools, communities, and state agencies. Three of our efforts are highlighted here.

Bringing Raising Healthy Children to the Navasota Independent School District, Navasota, Texas: Ensuring implementation fidelity to achieve intervention success

Contributors: Navasota Independent School District, Dawn Marie Baletka, PhD, LPC, GPC; SDRG researcher Kevin Haggerty, MSW, PhD

The Navasota Independent School District in Navasota, Texas, set a goal of improving school success and reducing teenage pregnancy. The district received a grant from the U.S. Office of Adolescent Health to replicate Raising Healthy Children (RHC), a universal intervention developed by J. David Hawkins, Richard Catalano, Kevin Haggerty, and colleagues at SDRG. RHC has been tested (as the Seattle Social Development Project and Raising Healthy Children) and found effective in improving academic performance and mental health and in reducing delinquency, substance use, and sexual risk behaviors, including reducing teenage pregnancy. RHC aims to improve youth development by strengthening connections between students and positive role models; providing the opportunities, skills, and recognition that are critical for school success; and reducing risks that can lead to problem behaviors, underachievement, and other concerns. It has three major components: teacher workshops in instruction and classroom

management, universal family group sessions, and social and emotional skills instruction in the classroom.

TO IMPROVE ADOLESCENT HEALTH WORLDWIDE, WE NEED: •Greater awareness of the

health and social benefits from evidence-based preventive interventions

•Research on how to take effective policies and programs to scale

•Research on how to adapt programs for use in low- and middle-income countries

•International guidelines for promoting adolescent health and preventing adolescent problems

•Databases of community surveys measuring risk and protective factors and prevention policies and programs and the concerns they address Some key messages from Catalano et al., (2012), Worldwide application of prevention science in adolescent health. The Lancet, 379, 1653-1664.

Navasota’s initiative, called Responsible Students, Volunteers, and Parents (RSVP), is designed to reach all students in the district. It began in the 2011–2012 school year and will continue for a total of 4 years. To help ensure RSVP’s success, the Navasota district partnered with SDRG for training and technical support as it implements RHC. SDRG’s rigorous implementation standards ensure faithful adherence to

program content and correct dosage as specified in program manuals. Without fidelity, prevention goals are less likely to be met. RSVP targets fidelity with respect to RHC instructional, classroom management, and social and emotional learning skills, as well as three family-focused prevention programs (Guiding Good Choices, Supporting School Success, and Raising Healthy Children). SDRG trainers have worked with the district to train local staff to build capacity to be effective classroom and parent trainers in the RHC program. The district will continue to implement RHC strategies and work with SDRG staff as it evaluates RSVP’s success.

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Adapting Staying Connected with Your Teen to meet the needs of youth in foster care and their caregiversContributors: Washington State Children’s Administration, Leah Mattos, MSW; Partners for Our Children researchers Susan Barkan, PhD, Caroline Eichenlaub, Kara Estep; SDRG researchers Kevin Haggerty, MSW, PhD, Mary Casey-Goldstein, MA, Pat Helgren, MEd, Emma Sherman

Youth involved in the foster care system face heightened risk for problem behaviors like substance use, unintended pregnancy, and involvement in the criminal justice system. To prevent these problems, tested and effective family-focused interventions have been developed, but they are often costly and can require more time than most families have, especially if group workshops are involved. To provide an alternative that is more affordable and easier to implement, researchers at SDRG and Partners for Our Children are testing the feasibility of an adaptation of Staying Connected with Your Teen, called Connecting, for use by the Washington State Children’s Administration. Staying Connected with Your Teen is an evidence-based, self-administered, family-focused intervention found to reduce substance use

initiation, risky sexual activity, and violent behavior by strengthening family connections and enhancing skills for effective parenting of adolescents.

The project is using ADAPT-ITT, a systematic approach to adapting, implementing, and testing evidence-based interventions for use with populations different from those for whom the interventions were originally designed. Focus groups consisting of young adults with backgrounds in foster care, foster parents and relatives, and child welfare staff were held to assess and propose program adaptations. Critically, focus group sessions revealed a lack of trusted connections between youth in foster care and caregivers that could limit the implementation and effectiveness of the adapted program. Focus group discussions led to several proposed adaptations, including fostering stronger connections between foster youth and caregivers, increasing caregiver education about normative adolescent behavior, and identifying skills needed by youth as they exit the system. One of the most immediate adaptations was changing the name of the program to Connecting. The Connecting program is currently being tested in a randomized wait-list control study involving 60 families.

Evaluating the effectiveness of Common Sense Parenting in the Tacoma Public Schools, Tacoma, Washington Contributors: Tacoma Public Schools, Patrick Cummings, MA; Boys Town National Research Institute for Child and Family Studies, W. Alex Mason, PhD, Ronald Thompson, PhD; SDRG researchers Kevin Haggerty, MSW, PhD, Mary Casey-Goldstein, MA, Kate Fernandez, Charles B. Fleming, MA, Koren Hanson, MA

Though many tested and effective interventions struggle to achieve widespread distribution and uptake, some programs have experienced wide-scale use without having been tested in randomized controlled trials. This was the situation faced by Common Sense Parenting (CSP), a program developed by researchers at Boys Town and designed to teach parenting skills that promote positive

transition to high school by reducing risks for substance use, delinquency, risky sexual behavior, and school failure. The trial aims to provide evidence supporting both the internal and external validity of the program. These combined features are intended to establish CSP as an evidence-based program while preserving program characteristics that make it attractive to implementing agencies.

Two versions of CSP will be evaluated, the original CSP program and CSP Plus. CSP Plus adds two sessions to CSP from Stepping Up to High School, an SDRG intervention to better prepare families for the transition to high school. Three hundred twenty-one families have agreed to participate in the study. Families will be followed for 2 years after the intervention is over to help determine the beneficial effects of the program.

These three projects extend the reach of evidence-based programs by:

•Encouraging agencies to maintain fidelity to program requirements so that prevention goals are more likely to be achieved

• Adapting programs for new populations and considering cost and family time requirements in program design

•Rigorously testing programs to extend the number of evidence-based programs available

These three projects also demonstrate that evidence-based solutions for fostering positive youth development provide viable options for public agencies and schools.

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behavior and reduce problem behavior. Parenting skills are developed over the course of six 2-hour weekly sessions led by trained parent workshop leaders. Small-scale evaluations provided evidence of reductions in problem behavior, increased family satisfaction, and decreased risk of physical child abuse, yet the program had never been tested in a randomized controlled trial. CSP currently serves more than 1,500 children across 12 Boys Town sites and has been disseminated to agencies in 47 states and 14 countries.

Given the wide dissemination and promising evidence of CSP, researchers at Boys Town and SDRG have embarked on a randomized prevention trial of CSP in five middle schools in Tacoma. The trial focuses on eighth graders from low-income families. The goal of the trial is to improve the

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The Community Youth Development Study (CYDS) and related projects (PI: J. David Hawkins)The CYDS is a community-randomized trial of the effectiveness of the Communities That Care (CTC) prevention system in 12 pairs of matched

communities across seven states. CTC is designed to help communities promote healthy youth development and reduce levels of youth drug use, violence, delinquency, teenage pregnancy, and school dropout community wide. The study is currently assessing the sustainability and long-term effects of CTC. Funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, with co-funding from the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

Community Intervention in Indian Country CYDS Supplement (PI: Hawkins; supplement director: Richard F. Catalano) This project provides a unique opportunity to explore and strengthen the appropriateness of CTC to be sustainable and produce population-wide effects in Indian country. It augments the primary community diagnostic and outcome instrument, the CTC Youth Survey, to include potential culturally specific risk and protection indicators as well as HIV risk behaviors, an important but little studied outcome among American Indian youth. Funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse

CYDS Economic Supplement (PI: Hawkins) Margaret Kuklinski, PhD, received a supplemental research grant to conduct economic analysis of the Community Youth Development Study. Primary goals include completing a benefit-cost analysis of the preventive effects of CTC on substance use and delinquency in youth, and an assessment of the effects of the economic downturn on the sustainability of the CTC prevention system in CYDS communities. Funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse

CYDS Netherlands Supplement (PI: Hawkins) This supplement compares the implementation of CTC in the Netherlands and the United States. The project, which is being conducted collaboratively by researchers from SDRG and the Verwey-Jonker

Institute in the Netherlands, studies how an intervention that was developed in the United States can be implemented and adopted in a different cultural and policy context. Funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse

Evidence2Success (PI: Catalano) This collaboration with the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Dartington Social Research Unit in the United Kingdom, Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development, and Mainspring Consulting has developed a change model for public systems (juvenile justice, child welfare, and public schools) and neighborhoods to promote the positive development of children and families in disadvantaged urban communities. System and community change will be accomplished through assessment of system, community, and youth issues that interfere with healthy development, and the use of proven programs and policies to address identified needs. The program is being piloted in Providence, Rhode Island.Funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation

Exploring Implementation of Drug Abuse Prevention in Treatment Settings (PI: Kevin P. Haggerty) This project examines the dissemination of an efficacious prevention program, Staying Connected with Your Teen

(Staying Connected), to inner-city families through an existing health services agency. Staying Connected is a family-based self-study intervention to prevent substance use, risky sexual behavior, and violence during adolescence. In this study, Staying Connected is disseminated in seven branches of Therapeutic Health Services, an established community health agency in Seattle, Washington. Funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse

Family Connections Health Disparities (PI: Haggerty) This is a 6- and 8-year follow up of the Family Connections project. In the original study, Staying Connected with Your Teen, a universal family-based intervention to prevent drug use and other problem behaviors, was evaluated in two formats: self-administered with telephone support, and parent and teen group meetings. This long-term follow-up focuses on race differences in program efficacy, risk and protective factors for drug use, and possible biological mediators of the impact of stress on drug use. Funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse

Feasibility of Substance Abuse Prevention in Foster Care Settings (PI: Haggerty) This study evaluates the feasibility of disseminating an evidence-based, self-directed, family-focused substance abuse prevention

program, Staying Connected with Your Teen, within the foster care system. The new program, called Connecting, focuses on identifying the specific needs and unique implementation issues encountered in administering this intervention to youth in foster care and families in the child welfare system. It brings together SDRG, Partners for Our Children (a foster care research group at the University of Washington School of Social Work), and the Washington State Children’s Administration. Funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse

The International Youth Development Study (PI: Catalano)This is a collaborative international project between SDRG and colleagues at the Centre for Adolescent Health at the University of Melbourne,

Deakin University, and the Australian Catholic University in Australia. The study investigates risk and protective factors for youth substance use and antisocial behavior using matched procedures and recruitment of statewide representative samples in Washington State and Victoria, Australia. Funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

King County Department of Community and Human Services—AAFT Evaluation (PI: Haggerty)SDRG is consulting with Therapeutic Health Services and King County on the evaluation of the Assertive Adolescent and Family Treatment Project by assisting with the evaluation of program adaptations and analysis of outcome data gathered from young adults.Funded by King County Department of Community and Human Services

The Lehigh Longitudinal Study (PI: Todd I. Herrenkohl)The Lehigh Longitudinal Study is a prospective investigation of the causes and consequences of child maltreatment. It began in the 1970s when children were 18 months to 6 years of age. Data were most recently collected in 2008–2010, when children had entered middle adulthood.Recent data collection and analysis was funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research

Two recently awarded secondary data analysis grants use data from this study:

Effects of Child Maltreatment on Adult Substance Use and Mental Health (PI: Herrenkohl)This project focuses on the long-term effects of child maltreatment and other forms of family adversity on substance use behaviors and mental health problems in adults. Goals are to study the effects of differing forms of child abuse, neglect, and childhood exposure to domestic violence on substance use and substance abuse risk in adulthood; depression and anxiety symptoms; and co-occurring disorders in adulthood. Analyses will also investigate the impact of patterns of cumulative victimization and adulthood stresses on adulthood functioning. This study also focuses on resilience and sources of protection for individuals with abuse histories. Funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research

Effects of Child Maltreatment, Cumulative Victimization Experiences, and Proximal Life Stress on Adult Outcomes of Substance Use, Mental Health Problems, and Antisocial Behavior (PI: Herrenkohl)This project seeks to replicate and extend research findings on the effects of child maltreatment and exposure to domestic violence, subsequent victimization, and stress on antisocial behavior, crime, and adulthood interpersonal violence perpetration and victimization. The study also investigates patterns of resilience and predictors of desistence from antisocial behavior in maltreated children.Funded by the National Institute of Justice

Media Impact on Preschool Behavior (Study PI: Dimitri Christakis, Seattle Children’s Hospital; Subcontract PI: Herrenkohl)This project seeks to improve the media diet of young children by decreasing the amount of violence they watch and by increasing the amount of prosocial programming. The goal of this randomized controlled trial is to determine if changes in TV viewing lead to changes in child behavior.Funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (subcontract with Seattle Children’s Hospital)

OSPI/UW/Raikes Foundation Middle School Guidance Curriculum Initiative (PI: Haggerty)SDRG and professionals in the field defined research-based personal-social, academic-educational, and career development middle school competencies and outcomes. The study also examined the guidance curriculum and assessment options available to middle schools to assess and address identified competencies.Funded by the Raikes Foundation

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Raising Healthy Children (PI: Catalano)This is a longitudinal study of the etiology of problem behavior with an experimental test of a preventive intervention nested within it. The 1,040 study participants were originally

recruited when they were in first or second grade and have been interviewed annually or biannually to age 23–24. Over the 19 years of project funding, the study has contributed over 50 articles and book chapters on wide-ranging topics including intervention effectiveness, etiology of substance use, and other problems from childhood through young adulthood.Funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse

Risk Factors for Adolescent Drug Use in the United States and Colombia (PI: Eric C. Brown)SDRG is collaborating with researchers and governmental officials in Colombia to examine the validity of measures of risk and protective factors by combining data from existing, large-scale research studies of adolescent alcohol and drug use in Colombia and the United States. Aims include establishing the psychometric equivalency of scales, determining appropriate cut points for elevated levels of risk among Colombian youth, and assessing the utility of risk and protective factor data for local prevention programming in Colombia. This study is being conducted in collaboration with the Community Youth Development Study and the Nuevos Rumbos Corporation. Funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse

Seattle Public Schools High School Graduation Initiative (PI: Michael Arthur) SDRG is working with the Seattle Public Schools (SPS) to improve graduation rates of students who are at risk of dropping out or who have already dropped out of school. The project will address student needs with an array of evidence-based interventions and implement them with fidelity and high quality. SDRG will also evaluate SPS’s High School Graduation Initiative.Funded by the Seattle Public Schools.

Seattle Social Development Project StudiesStarted in the 1980s by J. David Hawkins, the Seattle Social Development Project (SSDP) is a longitudinal study which examines the development of prosocial and antisocial behaviors. The 808

study participants were originally recruited when they were in fifth grade and have been interviewed regularly through age 35. The study included a universal preventive intervention during the elementary school years aimed at reducing youth health risk behaviors. SSDP currently encompasses these four studies:

Adult Development & Mental Health (PI: Rick Kosterman)This project examines the course, consequences, predictors, and prevention of depression, social phobia, and generalized anxiety, as well as their co-occurrence with risk for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and substance abuse and dependence in young adulthood in the SSDP sample through age 33. Funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse

Gene-Environment Interplay in the Development of Tobacco and Alcohol Dependence (PI: Karl G. Hill) This is a study to examine how genes and environment work together in affecting the development of tobacco and alcohol addiction in adulthood. DNA was assessed in SSDP participants, and in this study we are collaborating with two other longitudinal projects, Raising Healthy Children and the Minnesota Center for Twin and Family Research, to examine genetic and environmental contributions to addiction and related outcomes.Funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse

The SSDP Intergenerational Project (PI: Hill) This is a longitudinal study of the children of SSDP participants. The study examines the effects and mechanisms of parental and grandparental drug use on the cognitive, emotional, academic, and social development of their

children from birth to early adolescence and the potential for intergenerational impact of preventive intervention. Funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse

Understanding Alcohol Misuse, Abuse and Dependence in Young Adulthood (PI: Hill) This study examines the occurrence and course of binge drinking, alcohol abuse, and alcohol dependence in young adulthood through age 33 in the SSDP sample. We examine social development factors in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood that predict these problems with alcohol in adulthood, as well as the contribution of specific life events such as entry into and exit from marriage, parenthood, and work.Funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

Stepping Up to High School (Study PI: W. Alex Mason, Boys Town, Omaha, Nebraska; Subcontract PI: Haggerty)This is a 5-year experimental test of the efficacy of the Boys Town Common Sense Parenting

program in improving the transition to high school in a selective sample of eighth-grade students in five middle schools in Tacoma Public Schools, Tacoma, Washington. Both the original program and a modified version supplemented with materials from the Stepping Up to High School curriculum are being evaluated. Funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse

Supporting Early Adulthood Transitions Study (PI: Catalano) This program strengthens the evaluation instruments of the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative, a program for youth aging out of foster care. Funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

CTC Manitoba (PI: Haggerty) SDRG is providing training and research support to the Province of Manitoba in its efforts to pilot the CTC prevention planning system in four diverse communities throughout the province. Funded by Healthy Child Manitoba

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Blair Brooke-Weiss, MSPH, and Kevin P. Haggerty, MSW, PhD, were featured on the Healthy People 2020: Leading Health Indicators webinar in October. They spoke about Communities That Care as a strategy to promote healthy outcomes for young people. A video and transcript of the webinar are available at http://healthypeople.gov/2020/learn /webinarsArchive.aspx#q.

Eric C. Brown, PhD, and Kevin Haggerty were invited by the Colombian Ministry of Social Protection and Public Health and the Nuevos Rumbos Corporation to give an orientation on the Development and Implementation of Communities That Care: A Community-based Prevention System in Bogotá, Colombia, in February.

Eric Brown gave two additional invited talks in South America in 2012. He was invited by the U.S. Embassy in Chile, Universidad Andrés Bello, and the Paz Ciudadana Foundation to speak on Communities That Care: The Use of Prevention Science to Promote Positive Youth Development at the International Seminar of the

Chilean National Service for Drug Use Prevention and Rehabilitation in Santiago, Chile, in July. Dr. Brown also was invited by the Brazilian National Council on Scientific and Technology Development to conduct a 4-day short course in November at the University of Brasilia entitled Prevention Science and Methodological Approaches to Conducting Prevention Science Research.

DBHR CTC Trainings and Online Video Coaching (PI: Haggerty)This collaborative project is developing six CTC online study guides that will offer detailed guidance to coach CTC trainers to prepare for high-quality delivery of the CTC community trainings. Funded by Division of Behavioral Health & Recovery, Washington Department of Social and Health Services

Guilford County CTC (PI: Haggerty) In this project SDRG provides training and technical assistance to bring the CTC prevention planning system to Guilford County, North Carolina. Funded by the Moses Cone-Wesley Long Community Health Foundation

Navasota RHC Trainings Oklahoma City RHC (PI: Haggerty) SDRG is providing training and research support to the Navasota Independent School District (Navasota, Texas) and the Millwood School District

(Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) as both districts implement Raising Healthy Children. Navasota RHC is funded by the Navasota Independent School District through a grant from the U.S. Office of Adolescent Health. Oklahoma RHC is funded by the Oklahoma Southeast Jurisdiction Church of God in Christ

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Richard F. Catalano, PhD, was inducted as a fellow into the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare in November. As a fellow, Dr. Catalano joins an elite group of social work teachers, researchers, and leaders recognized for outstanding research, scholarship, and social work practice.

Richard Catalano presented Global Application of Prevention Science to Improve Adolescent Health and Development at the United Nations Commission on Population and Development side event, Seizing the Opportunity of Adolescent Health, in April. The event was sponsored by the Australian Mission and UNICEF, and coincided with the launching of the adolescent health series in The Lancet (April 2012, 379:9826).

Richard Catalano and J. David Hawkins, PhD, jointly received the Presidential Award from the Society for Prevention Research in June. The award, presented by Society President Deborah Gorman-Smith, is given to those who have made a major lifetime contribution to prevention science research. Dr. Catalano’s and Dr. Hawkins’ contributions are described at http://www.preventionresearch.org/about-spr /awards/2012-awards-presentation/.

J. David Hawkins received the Joseph E. Zins Award for Action Research in Social and Emotional Learning: Distinguished Scholar from the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) in August. The award honors contributions to the social and emotional learning field and is given to investigators conducting action research.

J. David Hawkins and The Mothers of Prevention, the official band of the Society for Prevention Research (SPR), received the 2012 Service to SPR Award in recognition of their outstanding service to the organization. The Mothers of Prevention have been performing at the SPR Annual Minority Scholarship Dance for 8 years. The band members are David Hawkins (guitar, harmonica, vocals), Gilbert Botvin (trumpet, flugelhorn), Brian Bumbarger (drums, vocals, band manager), Celene Domitrovich (vocals), Jim Emshoff (electric piano, vocals), John Graham

(saxophone, guitar, vocals), John Jimenez (lead guitar), and Randy Swaim (bass guitar).

J. David Hawkins gave two invited addresses in 2012. He presented A Sociologist Takes on Teen Smoking, Drinking and Violence…And Wins! at the Sixth Annual Michael and Susan Dell Lectureship in Child Health, University of Texas, Austin, in March. This event recognizes distinguished researchers who have made outstanding contributions to child health. Dr. Hawkins also was invited to give the Marjorie Pay Hinckley Endowed Chair Eighth Annual Lecture in Social Work and the Social Sciences, which honors prominent social sciences scholars. He presented Promoting Positive Youth Development: Advances in Community Prevention at Brigham Young University in March.

Todd I. Herrenkohl, PhD, was promoted to Professor in the University of Washington School of Social Work in September. Dr. Herrenkohl’s work focuses on the study and promotion of positive youth development and the amelioration of risk factors related to interpersonal violence.

Bart Klika, MSW, received the 2012 UW Excellence in Teaching Award for outstanding teaching and mentoring of students both inside and outside the classroom. Mr. Klika was one of only two graduate teaching assistants to receive this honor. He also received the 2012 BASW Students’ Choice Teaching Award.

Allison Kristman-Valente, MSW, received the Multidisciplinary Predoctoral Clinical Research Traineeship funded by the National Institute of Health/National Center for Research Resources through the Institute of Translational Health Sciences.

Elvira Yañez, BA, a 2nd-year student in the University of Washington Master of Social Work program, was awarded a Fogarty fellowship to conduct research in Peru during the summer of 2012.

Intervention Research

Gloppen, K. M., Arthur, M. W., Hawkins, J. D., & Shapiro, V. B. (2012). Sustainability of the Communities That Care prevention system by coalitions participating in the Community Youth Development Study. Journal of Adolescent Health, 51, 259-264.

Haggerty, K. P., & Kosterman, R. (2012). Helping parents prevent problem behavior. Better: Evidence-Based Education, 4(3), 22-23.

Hawkins, J. D., Catalano, R. F., & Kuklinski, M. R. (2012). Communities That Care: Bridging science and community practice to prevent adolescent health and behavior problems, including violence. In Social and economic costs of violence: Workshop summary. National Research Council and Institute of Medicine Forum on Global Violence Prevention (pp. 121-139). Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

Hawkins, J. D., Kuklinski, M. R., & Fagan, A. A. (2012). Reducing barriers to learning through Communities That Care. Better: Evidence-Based Education, 4(2), 8-9.

Kuklinski, M. R., Hawkins, J. D., Plotnick, R. D., Abbott, R. D., & Reid, C. K. (2012). How has the economic downturn affected communities and implementation of science-based prevention in the randomized trial of Communities That Care? American Journal of Community Psychology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s10464-012-9557-z.

Monahan, K. C., Hawkins, J. D., & Abbott, R. D. (2012). The application of meta-analysis within a matched-pair randomized control trial: An illustration testing the effects of Communities That Care on delinquent behavior. Prevention Science. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s11121-012-0300-7.

Rhew, I. C., Brown, E. C., Hawkins, J. D., & Briney, J. S. (2012). Sustained effects of the Communities That Care system on prevention service system transformation. American Journal of Public Health. Advance online publication. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300567.

Storer, H. L., Barkan, S. E., Sherman, E. L., Haggerty, K. P., & Mattos, L. M. (2012). Promoting relationship building and connection: Adapting an evidence-based parenting program for families involved in the child welfare system. Children and Youth Services Review, 34, 1853-1861.

Child and Adolescent Health and BehaviorChoi, Y., He, M., Herrenkohl, T. I., Catalano, R. F., & Toumbourou, J. W. (2012). Multiple identification and risks: Examination of peer factors across multiracial and single-race youth. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 41, 847-862.

Crutchfield, R. D., Skinner, M. L., Haggerty, K. P., McGlynn, A., & Catalano, R. F. (2012). Racial disparity in police contacts. Race and Justice, 2, 179-202.

Fagan, A. A., Van Horn, M. L., Hawkins, J. D., & Jaki, T. (2012). Differential effects of parental controls on adolescent substance use: For whom is the family most important? Journal of Quantitative Criminology. Advance online publication. doi 10.1007/s10940-012-9183-9.

Hemphill, S. A., Herrenkohl, T. I., Plenty, S. M., Toumbourou, J. W., Catalano, R. F., & McMorris, B. J. (2012). Pathways from school suspension to adolescent nonviolent antisocial behavior in students in Victoria, Australia and Washington State, United States. Journal of Community Psychology, 40, 301-318.

Hemphill, S. A., Kotevski, A., Smith, R., Tollit, M., Herrenkohl, T. I., Toumbourou, J. W., & Catalano, R. F. (2012). Longitudinal predictors of cyber and traditional bullying perpetration in Australian secondary school students. Journal of Adolescent Health, 51, 59-65.

Herrenkohl, T. I., Hemphill, S. A., Mason, W. A., Toumbourou, J. W., & Catalano, R. F. (2012). Predictors and responses to the growth in physical violence during adolescence: A comparison of students in Washington State and Victoria, Australia. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 82, 41-49.

Herrenkohl, T. I., Lee, J. O., & Hawkins, J. D. (2012). Risk versus direct protective factors and youth violence: Seattle Social Development Project. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Special issue: Protective factors for youth violence perpetration: Issues, evidence, and public health implications, 43(2) Suppl. 1, 41-56.

Klika, J. B., Herrenkohl, T. I., & Lee, J. O. (2012). School factors as moderators of the relationship between physical child abuse and pathways of antisocial behavior. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/0886260512455865.

Oesterle, S., Hawkins, J. D., Steketee, M., Jonkman, H., Brown, E. C., Moll, M., & Haggerty, K. P. (2012). A cross-national comparison of risk and protective factors for adolescent drug use and delinquency in the United States and the Netherlands. Journal of Drug Issues, 42, 337-357.

Adult Health and Behavior Bailey, J. A., Fleming, C. B., Catalano, R. F., Haggerty, K. P., & Manhart, L. E. (2012). Romantic relationship characteristics and alcohol use: Longitudinal associations with dual method contraception use. Journal of Adolescent Health, 50, 450-455.

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Bailey, J. A., Hill, K. G., Guttmannova, K., Oesterle, S., Hawkins, J. D., Catalano, R. F., & McMahon, R. J. (2012). The association between parent early adult drug use disorder and later observed parenting practices and child behavior problems: Testing alternate models. Developmental Psychology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/a0029235; 10.1037/a0029235.supp (Supplemental).

Epstein, M., Hill, K. G., Bailey, J. A., & Hawkins, J. D. (2012). The effect of general and drug-specific family environments on comorbid and drug-specific problem behavior: A longitudinal examination. Developmental Psychology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/a0029309.

Fleming, C. B., White, H. R., Haggerty, K. P., Abbott, R. D., & Catalano, R. F. (2012). Educational paths and substance use from adolescence into early adulthood. Journal of Drug Issues, 42, 104-126. Guttmannova, K., Hill, K. G., Bailey, J. A., Lee, J. O., Hartigan, L. A., Hawkins, J. D., & Catalano, R. F. (2012). Examining explanatory mechanisms of the effects of early alcohol use on young adult alcohol dependence. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 73, 379-390.

Herrenkohl, T. I., Hong, S., Klika, J. B., Herrenkohl, R. C., & Russo, M. J. (2012). Developmental impacts of child abuse and neglect related to adult mental health, substance use, and physical health. Journal of Family Violence. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s10896-012-9474-9.

Herrenkohl, T. I., Klika, J. B., Herrenkohl, R. C., Russo, M. J., & Dee, T. (2012). A prospective investigation analysis of the relationship between child maltreatment and indicators of adult psychological well-being. Violence and Victims, 27, 764-776.

Herrenkohl, T. I., Lee, J. O., Kosterman, R., & Hawkins, J. D. (2012). Family influences related to adult substance use and mental health problems: A developmental analysis of child and adolescent predictors. Journal of Adolescent Health, 51, 129-135.

Kiff, C. J., Cortes, R. C., Lengua, L. J., Kosterman, R., Hawkins, J. D., & Mason, W. A. (2012). Effects of timing of adversity on adolescent and young adult adjustment. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 22, 284-300.

King, K. M., Nguyen, H., Kosterman, R., Bailey, J. A., & Hawkins, J. D. (2012). Co-occurrence of sexual risk behaviors and substance use across emerging adulthood: Evidence for state- and trait-level associations. Addiction, 107, 1288-1296.

Lee, J. O., Hill, K. G., & Hawkins, J. D. (2012). The role of educational aspirations and expectations in the discontinuity of intergenerational low-income status. Social Work Research, 36, 141-151.

Lee, J. O., Kosterman, R., McCarty, C. A., Hill, K. G., & Hawkins, J. D. (2012). Can patterns of alcohol use disorder in young adulthood help explain gender differences in depression? Comprehensive Psychiatry, 53, 1071-1077.

Stone, A. L., Becker, L. G., Huber, A. M., & Catalano, R. F. (2012). Risk and protective factors of substance use and problem use in emerging adulthood. Addictive Behaviors, 37, 747-755.

Methods and MeasuresBriney, J. S., Brown, E. C., Hawkins, J. D., & Arthur, M. W. (2012). Predictive validity of established cut points for risk and protective factor scales from the Communities That Care Youth Survey. The Journal of Primary Prevention, 33, 249-258.

Fernandes, A., Skinner, M. L., Woelfel, T., Carpenter, T., & Haggerty, K. P. (2012). Implementing self-collection of biological specimens with a diverse sample. Field Methods. Advance online publication. doi:10.1177/1525822X12453526.

Fleming, C. B., Marchesini, G., Elgin, J., Haggerty, K. P., Woodward, D., Abbott, R. D., & Catalano, R. F. (2012). Use of Web and phone survey modes to gather data from adults about their young adult children: An evaluation based on a randomized design. Field Methods. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/1525822X12466888.

Van Horn, M. L., Smith, J., Fagan, A. A., Jaki, T., Feaster, D. J., Masyn, K., Hawkins, J. D., & Howe, G. (2012). Not quite normal: Consequences of violating the assumption of normality in regression mixture models. Structural Equation Modeling, 19, 227-249.

Reviews and Commentary

Catalano, R. F., Fagan, A. A., Gavin, L. E., Greenberg, M. T., Irwin, C. E., Ross, D. A., & Shek, D. T. L. (2012). Worldwide application of the prevention science research base in adolescent health. The Lancet, 379, 1653-1664.

Fagan, A. A., & Catalano, R. F. (2012). What works in youth violence prevention: A review of the literature. Research on Social Work Practice. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/1049731512465899.

Fagan, A. A., & Eisenberg, N. (2012). Latest developments in the prevention of crime and anti-social behaviour: An American perspective. Journal of Children’s Services, 7, 64-72.

Fagan, A. A., & Hawkins, J. D. (2012). Community-based substance use prevention. In B. C. Welsh & D. P. Farrington (Eds.), The Oxford handbook on crime prevention (pp. 247-268). New York: Oxford University Press.

Hawkins, J. D., Catalano, R. F., Hill, K. G., & Kosterman, R. (2012). Taking effective crime prevention to scale: From school-based programs to community-wide prevention systems. In R. Loeber & B. C. Welsh (Eds.), The future of criminology (pp. 178-185). New York: Oxford University Press.

Resnick, M. D., Catalano, R. F., Sawyer, S. M., Viner, R., & Patton, G. C. (2012). Comment: Seizing the opportunities of adolescent health. The Lancet, 379, 1564-1567.

Welsh, B. C., Lipsey, M. W., Rivara, F. P., Hawkins, J. D., Aos, S., & Hollis-Peel, M. E. (2012). Promoting change, changing lives: Effective prevention and intervention to reduce serious offending. In R. Loeber & D. P. Farrington (Eds.), From juvenile delinquency to adult crime. Criminal careers, justice policy, and prevention (pp. 245-277). New York: Oxford University Press.

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Collect high-quality data using multiple modes: telephone, web, mail, school-based, in-person interviews, and bio specimen collection

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