DSG - Development Services Group, Inc.

DSG is a woman-owned small business with headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland. We work with federal, state, and local agencies, with a primary focus on addressing the behaviors and behavioral health of high-risk populations. We do research and evaluation, training and technical assistance, and management consulting. We currently have more than 50 employees, more than 500 consultants, and numerous partnering universities and companies. 

Products and services include research, evaluation, training, technical assistance, assessments of evidence-based interventions, quantitative analysis, qualitative analysis, creation and maintenance of web-based repositories of information about evidence-based interventions, rigorous literature reviews, creation and maintenance of attractive and usable web sites, and the planning and convening of major national and international conferences.

Topics of special concern, on which DSG has cutting-edge experience and expertise, include juvenile justice, criminal justice, education, behavioral health (including mental health and substance abuse), violence prevention, terrorism, child welfare, minority behavioral health, and disproportionate minority contact in justice systems.