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Development Services Group, Inc. (DSG), is a leading national research and management firm. DSG offers a wide range of services to federal, state, and local clients and communities. DSG is a highly experienced and widely respected small business that has specialized in translating scientific results into practice, especially in the behavior and behavioral health fields, including in alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health. Since 1977, more than 100 clients have received DSG's consultation and support in program planning and evaluation, program development, training, rigorous social science research, management development, curriculum development, materials development, strategic planning, systems analysis, management information systems development, Web applications for human services programs, business/market development, and performance measures and systems.DSG is an established innovator in developing research-to-practice activities in behavior and behavioral health, managing the dissemination of research-based findings through multiple avenues, facilitating advances in implementation science, and identifying effective evidence-based programs for positive outcomes in behavior, behavioral health, and physical health. DSG offers outstanding technical and subject-matter competence in areas such as training, quantitative and qualitative research, implementation science, evaluation systems development for government agencies, community planning, materials development, and information systems and Web development. DSG staff and consultants are experts in a wide range of scholarly disciplines, practice fields, and topical areas including, but not limited to, juvenile justice, criminal justice, minority health, corrections, systems improvement, substance abuse prevention, mental health, child welfare, health care utilization, behavioral research, education and schools, networking and information sharing, software applications, and international development.