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We acknowledge the contributions of the City of Baltimore, its families and children, and the administration of the Baltimore City Public Schools. The Prevention Program is a collaboration between the Baltimore City Public Schools and the Prevention Research Center of the Department of Mental Hygiene, the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. This work of the Prevention Program would not have been possible, let alone successful, without the active participation and continued support of the leadership, faculty, and staff of the School District and their guidance in our research and service enterprise. The Board of School Commissioners gave their strong endorsement. The faculty and staff of the Baltimore Public Schools have made crucial contributions, specifically Richard Hunter, Superintendent of Baltimore City Public Schools; Alice Pinderhughes, former Superintendent of the Baltimore City Schools; and Charlene Griffin, former Assistant Superintendent for School Management. The assistance and support of the following have been vital to our program: Leonard Wheeler, Assistant Superintendent for Elementary Schools; Charlene Copper-Boston, Associate Superintendent for External Affairs; Herman Howard, Associate Superintendent for Vocational and Special Education; Carla Ford, Supervisor, Office of Early Childhood Education; Craig Cutter, former Staff Director Department of Education; Edward Friedlander, former Assistant Superintendent of Special Education; Clifton Ball, former Executive Director; Jessie Douglas, Director of Elementary Schools; and Leonard Granick, Staff Specialist for Testing. The efforts of Ulder Tillman in community base-building are gratefully acknowledged. We also thank Alice Brogden for her manuscript preparation and technical assistance and Pamela Spencer for her contribution to data analyses. The studies on which this paper is based have been supported by the following grants, with supplements from the National Institute on Drug Abuse: National Institute of Mental Health, grant P50 MH38725, Epidemiologic Prevention Center for Early Risk Behavior; NIMH grant 1R01 MH42968, Periodic Outcome of Two Preventive Trials; and grant NIMH 1R01 MH40859, Statistical Methods for Mental Health Preventive Trials.
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Kellam, S.G., Werthamer-Larsson, L., Dolan, L.J. et al. Developmental epidemiologically based preventive trials: Baseline modeling of early target behaviors and depressive symptoms. Am J Commun Psychol 19, 563–584 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00937992
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