Abstract: Ensuring Healthy Development for All Youth: A Grand Challenge for Social Work (Society for Social Work and Research 20th Annual Conference - Grand Challenges for Social Work: Setting a Research Agenda for the Future)

Schedule:

Friday, January 15, 2016

Ballroom Level-Grand Ballroom South Salon (Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel)

* noted as presenting author

J. David Hawkins, PhD, Endowed Professor of Prevention, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Jeffrey M. Jenson, PhD, Philip D. and Eleanor G. Winn Professor, University of Denver, Denver, CO

Jordan E. DeVylder, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland at Baltimore, Baltimore, MD

Richard F. Catalano, PhD, Bartley Bobb Professor for the Study and Prevention of Violence, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Mark W. Fraser, PhD, Tate Professor for Children in Need, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

Gilbert Botvin, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Cornell University, New York, NY

Valerie B. Shapiro, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Berk, CA

Kimberly A. Bender, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Denver, Denver, CO

Behavioral health problems in childhood and adolescence take a heavy toll on millions of lives. For decades the approach to these problems has been to treat them only after they’ve been identified – at a high and ongoing cost to young people, families, and communities. Now, we have a 30-year body of research and more than 50 programs showing that behavioral health problems can be prevented through universal, selective, and indicated preventive interventions. The challenge now is to mobilize across disciplines and communities to advance prevention practices and policies on a nationwide scale. Two initiatives included in the Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare’s Grand Challenge of Ensure Healthy Development for All Youth are described in this poster. The first, Unleashing the Power of Prevention outlines a national prevention agenda developed by the Coalition for the Promotion of Behavioral Health. The second initiative, Prevention of Schizophrenia and Severe Mental Illness, reviews emerging evidence pertaining to promise of indicated prevention of schizophrenia and will be presented by Jordan DeVylder.

Abstract: Ensuring Healthy Development for All Youth: A Grand Challenge for Social Work (Society for Social Work and Research 20th Annual Conference - Grand Challenges for Social Work: Setting a Research Agenda for the Future)

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