Center for Communities That Care

Center for Communities That Care Communities That Care (CTC) is a proven, community-change process for reducing youth violence, alcohol & tobacco use, and delinquency.

CTC is a coalition-based prevention operating system that uses a public health approach to prevent youth problem behaviors such as violence, delinquency, school drop out and substance abuse. Using strategic consultation, training, and research-based tools, CTC is designed to help community stakeholders and decision makers understand and apply information about risk and protective factors, and prog

rams that are proven to make a difference in promoting healthy youth development, in order to most effectively address the specific issues facing their community’s youth.

Congratulations to our Center for CTC and SDRG Director, Margaret Kuklinski, on her appointment to the Washington State ...
08/20/2026

Congratulations to our Center for CTC and SDRG Director, Margaret Kuklinski, on her appointment to the Washington State Academy of Science!

From the announcement:

Margaret Kuklinski, Endowed Professor in Prevention in the School of Social Work and director of the Social Development Research Group, for “contributions to the economic assessment of prevention programs addressing substance abuse and mental health, and for advancing community-engaged research, and effective communication of findings to different audiences.”

Eleven faculty members at the University of Washington have been elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences while another was elected to the WSAS Board

Check out United Way of Steele County’s new wheels - great way to get seen in the community!
07/30/2026

Check out United Way of Steele County’s new wheels - great way to get seen in the community!

There is still time to register!
06/16/2026

There is still time to register!

Bringing the Social Development Strategy to your community should be fun for everyone! The Center for CTC is excited to host a monthly series featuring a member from Five Town CTC in Maine, where they brough SDS to life with the STAR program (Skills Training and Recognition). Join us Tuesday June 16th 10am PT/1pm ET!
https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/efzAEiZlSSa6xcwRrH-7DA

Bringing the Social Development Strategy to your community should be fun for everyone! The Center for CTC is excited to ...
06/08/2026

Bringing the Social Development Strategy to your community should be fun for everyone! The Center for CTC is excited to host a monthly series featuring a member from Five Town CTC in Maine, where they brough SDS to life with the STAR program (Skills Training and Recognition). Join us Tuesday June 16th 10am PT/1pm ET!
https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/efzAEiZlSSa6xcwRrH-7DA

Are you looking for an evidence-based program that addresses family risk factors Early initiation of drug useFavorable a...
05/28/2026

Are you looking for an evidence-based program that addresses family risk factors
Early initiation of drug use
Favorable attitudes towards antisocial behavior
Favorable attitudes towards drug use

Check out Guiding Good Coices
https://www.communitiesthatcare.net/programs/ggc/

An evidence-based program for parents/ caregivers of youth ages 9-14. Caregivers learn to strengthen family bonds, improve parent-child communication, healthy conflict management and how to share their own family guidelines at home.

Our next training of workship leaders is July 14, 15, 16, 20 & 21, 2026. Interested? Register at https://cvent.me/KyDklE

The National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives is hosting a full-day webinar on Federal Research Investments...
05/20/2026

The National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives is hosting a full-day webinar on Federal Research Investments in Whole Child Health and Well-being — Wednesday, June 24th 10:00am to 5:00pm ET.
Children across the U.S. are facing serious challenges to their healthy development. The good news? Decades of research have shown us what works. Now it's time to talk about how to put it into practice — at scale, in communities, through smart federal investment.
This event brings together National Institutes of Health (NIH) leadership and leading child health experts to explore how a whole-child approach to health and well-being can help every child flourish.
Presented by the Decade of the Child Committee, with sponsors Nova Institute for Health, the National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives, the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center at Penn State, and UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.
Register here: https://bit.ly/42tioqH

The Center for CTC is hosting a virtual Social Development Strategy workshop May 20th and 27th. This six-hour interactiv...
05/04/2026

The Center for CTC is hosting a virtual Social Development Strategy workshop May 20th and 27th. This six-hour interactive training is designed to prepare any youth-serving agency/individual to use the Social Development Strategy (SDS) in their work.
Register for the workshop here: https://cvent.me/XYZDlr

The Center for Communities That Care is thrilled to welcome Margaret Flynn Khan for our May Monthly Series. Learn what F...
04/28/2026

The Center for Communities That Care is thrilled to welcome Margaret Flynn Khan for our May Monthly Series. Learn what FY26 funding levels, FY27 proposals, and key federal actions mean for local coalitions—and walk away with strategies to adapt and lead in a changing policy landscape. Register today: https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/gvP6KkM1RBGMM7J2Io1U5Q

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