SDRG Projects
Research projects at SDRG seek to harness prevention science to improve lives among diverse populations. We do this by conducting research in multiple, coordinated areas, including:
- Seeking to understand the underlying causes of behavior, health, and social problems
- Developing and testing interventions designed to prevent behavior, health, and social problems
- Understanding how to take effective interventions out of the research setting and into the real world
- Studying service systems and working to improve them
Past Projects
The Depression and Substance Use Prevention Project (2008)
This project evaluates the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of the Depression and Substance Use Prevention (DSUP) program. DSUP is a parent-training preventive intervention adapted from two existing, evidence-based programs: one that targets adolescent depression and another that targets adolescent substance use. The program is designed for families of depressed parents with children between the ages...
Lehigh Longitudinal Study (2007)
This is a continuance of a longitudinal study examining the effects of family violence on children as they transition through adolescence and early adulthood. The study seeks to mark transitions and life successes in the lives of individuals exposed to violence at a young age. Funding adds an adult assessment to three earlier waves of...
Cambodians Sentenced Home: An Examination Into the Lives of the Deported (2006)
In the last decade, two events occurred which dramatically changed the life course for a number of Cambodian refugees and immigrants living in the United States. In 1996, legislation was passed eliminating case-by-case exceptions to deportation rulings. The second key event occurred in 2002, when the Cambodian government entered into an agreement with the U.S....
Raising Healthy Children: Bedford County, Pennsylvania (2006)
Raising Healthy Children: Bedford County, PA is based upon the successful strategies of the Seattle Social Development Project and the Raising Healthy Children (RHC) project. Bedford County will receive technical assistance, training, and monitoring from SDRG, and local staff will be hired to implement the program. The program’s overall goal is to make a significant...
SSDP – Adult Development & Mental Health (ADAMH) (2006)
This study 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. Analyses focus on the longitudinal patterns of these outcomes in the...
CYDS Netherlands (2005)
This supplemental project was conducted collaboratively by researchers from SDRG and from the Verwey-Jonker Institute, the Netherlands Institute for Care and Welfare, and Tilburg University. It expanded the scope of the parent project to compare and contrast U.S. and Netherlands data on student cannabis use. This project compared cannabis and other drug use prevalence as...
Rural Adolescent Psychopathology Study (2005)
This study uses existing longitudinal data from Project Family to investigate the role of psychopathology in the development of adolescent problem drug use. The project examines effects of earlier conduct problems and depressive symptoms on later problem drug use, and seeks to understand gender differences in those predictive relationships. The broader context of social development...
Long-term Follow-up of Families Facing the Future (2004)
This project is a follow-up of the Families Facing the Future (FFF) program (previously called Focus on Families). Data on FFF participants are being collected and analyzed about 12 ½ years after the participants were enrolled in the project and about 10 years after they were last interviewed. FFF was a randomized clinical trial of...
Seattle Safe Schools Program (2002)
In this study SDRG evaluated Seattle Public Schools’ Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative, a comprehensive effort to integrate school and community policies and services to students to promote healthy development and increase safety in and around school buildings. The District has adopted the Communities That Care strategic prevention planning framework to coordinate and integrate social development...
Cross Cultural Families (2000)
The Cross-Cultural Families program investigated the developmental trajectories of Vietnamese and Cambodian children in late childhood and early adolescence. Immigrant children and children of immigrants have become the fastest growing and most ethnically diverse segment of the U.S. child population. Yet, little longitudinal research has been conducted to better understand why some immigrant or refugee...