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Social Development Research Group 9725 Third Ave NE, Suite #401 Seattle WA 98115 206.685.1997 |
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Mission The Social Development Research Group (SDRG) is a nationally recognized, interdisciplinary team of researchers united in a common mission... To understand and promote healthy behaviors and positive social development among children, adolescents, and young adults by:
SDRG's research seeks to promote youth development as well as prevent and treat health and behavior problems among young people through identifying risk and protective factors and understanding the effects of promotive and preventive interventions that address these factors. Academic success and positive development as well as drug abuse, delinquency, risky sexual behavior, violence, mental health problems and school dropout are among the outcomes studied. In 1979, J. David Hawkins and Richard F. Catalano began to develop the Social Development Model which provides the theoretical basis for this approach to promotion and prevention which underlies much of the group's research. SDRG has an Administrative unit and a Survey Research Division that serve the group’s multiple projects. In addition, the Survey Research Division provides a range of survey services to other health and social science researchers at the University of Washington and beyond. SDRG has produced more than 400 articles, books, and monographs and has secured more than $100 million dollars in grant and contract funding over its history. |
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Phone: 206.685.1997 Fax: 206.543.4507 Email: sdrg@u.washington.edu |
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