UW News
Rico Catalano
July 30, 2015
UW-led group launches plan to reduce youth problems by 20 percent in a decade
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A national coalition of experts that includes two University of Washington researchers has a bold plan to reduce behavioral health problems such as violence and depression among young people across the country by 20 percent in a decade. And their proposal rests on one simple principle: prevention. The group’s paper, recently published on the National…