Strong partnerships, careful decisions rooted in good science – and several timely injections of serendipity – have combined to build on the shell of a dejected young US probation officer one of the widest-ranging and energetic contributions to the emerging science of prevention.
Richard Catalano is Director of the Social Development Research Group at the University of Washington, which he founded with David Hawkins
An operating system describes a method to help communities, agencies or local authorities choose effective prevention, early intervention and treatment models.
Longitudinal studies involve repeated observations of the same items over lengthy periods. They are often used in psychology to study developmental trends across the life span, and in sociology to study events throughout lifetimes or generations.
The Social Development Research Group – affiliated to the School of Social Work at the University of Washington in Seattle – was founded by David Hawkins and its current Director Richard Catalano.
Raising Healthy Children is a public health program developed by David Hawkins and Richard Catalano from the Social Development Research Group at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Public health approaches seek to prevent impairments to health and development by changing the behavior or exposure to risks of a specified population.
Communities That Care (CtC) is an “operating system” developed by David Hawkins and Richard Catalano from the Social Development Research Group at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Services organized but not necessarily provided by health, education, social care, police or youth justice agencies with the purpose of improving children's health or development. They include all agencies working with children, among them purchasers and voluntary and private providers. Following the UK Children Act, 2004 local authorities replaced administrative departments of education and social care with departments of children's services to work closely with health, youth justice and other agencies.
social exclusion
Social exclusion refers to the involuntary detachment of an individual from mainstream society, usually as a result of the long-term accumulation of multidimensional disadvantage.