Posted on December 30, 2011

How the Five Town community got started with CTC…

This week’s blog installment begins to tell the story of our local CTC efforts.  Here is an excerpt:

Based on feedback received via email over the last couple of weeks, we decided it might be a good idea to provide a brief summary of how Five Town CTC got started.  SO, here goes:

Back in 1997 researchers at the University of Washington’s Social Development Research Group (SDRG) began a study called Diffusion of State Risk/Protective-Focused Prevention—The Diffusion Project for short.  Dr. Richard Catalano and Dr. J. David Hawkins were interested to learn how communities made decisions about the strategies they use to prevent youth problem behaviors such as substance abuse, violence, delinquency, school drop-out, and teen pregnancy. READ MORE

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