The Social Development Research Group’s (SDRG) Northwest Center for Family Support (NCFS) was established to build capacity and increase access to family-focused evidence-based interventions (EBIs) for families impacted by opioid use disorder (OUD) in the state of Washington. Learn about how NCFS is working to increase statewide capacity to deliver EBIs that braid recovery and treatment support for caregivers with OUD and prevention for their children, ages 0-14.
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argaret Kuklinski, PhD, is Director of the Social Development Research Group (SDRG), Acting Director of the Center for Communities That Care, and Endowed Associate Professor of Prevention in Social Work in the School of Social Work at the University of Washington. At SDRG and the Center for CTC, she oversees multidisciplinary staff dedicated to promoting healthy development and preventing substance misuse and other problem behaviors in young people through rigorous prevention science and dissemination of effective preventive interventions. Her own NIH- and foundation-funded research focuses on demonstrating the long-term impact of effective community-based and family-focused substance use prevention interventions; partnering with communities, agencies, and services systems to implement and scale them; and building policy support for preventive interventions by demonstrating their benefits and costs. She is the Principal Investigator of a Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts grant that established the Northwest Center for Family Support to increase access to family-focused evidence-based interventions for families impacted by opioid use disorder. Under NIDA’s HEAL Prevention Initiative she co-chairs the Health Economics Working Group, which is examining the cost-effectiveness of a set of projects aimed at developing effective approaches to preventing opioid misuse in adolescents and young adults. Dr. Kuklinski is a member of the Board on Children Youth and Families at the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. She previously served on the board of the Society for Prevention Research. As a health economist, she has helped set methodological standards for cost, benefit-cost, and cost-effectiveness analyses of preventive interventions for children, youth, and families through efforts led by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and the Society for Prevention Research. Dr. Kuklinski received a PhD in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, and an AB in Economics from Harvard University.
Jim Leighty, MSW, LICSW, is the Project Director for the Northwest Center for Family Support (NCFS) within the Social Development Research Group (SDRG) at the University of Washington’s School of Social Work. NCFS was created, via a grant from the Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts, to build capacity and increase access to family-focused evidence-based intervention for families impacted by opioid use disorder. Prior to joining SDRG, he worked in and managed various multidisciplinary community mental health programs working with adults with serious mental illness and co-occurring disorders in two assertive community treatment programs and adolescents in inpatient and juvenile justice settings. Before joining the social work world, Jim served 20 years in the US Marine Corps. Jim received his MSW from the University of Washington, an MS in Management (Finance) from the Naval Postgraduate School, and a BA in Economics & Political Science from the University of Rochester.
Ashton Gatsby is the Project Coordinator for the Northwest Center for Family Support. Their focus is on increasing data driven engagement and outreach. In addition, they work as a Research Coordinator for SDRG's Survey Research Division.
