ABOUT US
A WOMAN-OWNED FIRM
Development Services Group, Inc., is a woman-owned small business (WOSB) with headquarters in Bethesda, Md. We work with federal, state, and local agencies, with a primary concentration on addressing the behaviors and behavioral health of high-risk populations. Since our founding in 1977, we have been leading the way in finding, assessing, and applying what works in the practice areas below.
Washington, D.C., Office: 7315 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 800 East, Bethesda, MD 20814
| Satellite Offices | |
| New York | Tampa |
| Denver | Boulder, Colo. |
| Boston | Atlanta |
DSG is a woman-owned small business (WOSB), certified by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) for the Women-Owned Small Business Federal Contract Program (WOSB Program), as set forth in Title 13, Part 127 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR).
OUR MISSION
DSG’s mission is to use science in the service of people. We work with difficult-to-reach populations to tackle some of the toughest problems in public health and justice.
REAL IMPACT // REAL SOLUTIONS
OUR MISSION
DSG’s mission is to use science in the service of people. We work with difficult-to-reach populations to tackle some of the toughest problems in public health and justice.
REAL IMPACT // REAL SOLUTIONS
OUR BUSINESS
Who we are and what we do. DSG is a woman-owned small business with headquarters in Bethesda, Md. 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.
Our mission is to use science in the service of people. We have staff, consultants, and partners who are research leaders in their fields, and who have held management and policy leadership positions in federal, state, and local agencies. As a result, we can mobilize both rigorous science and practical experience to address pressing problems of high-risk populations, to bring about real-world results that make a difference.
Our work ethic is to go the extra mile, even under extreme time pressure to produce excellent results, and to work closely and collaboratively with each of our clients. No timeline is too extreme for us. We get the job done.
Agencies we work with, under grants and contracts, include agencies in the U.S. Departments of Justice, Education, State, and Health and Human Services, as well as state and local agencies. We have received exemplary ratings on more than 150 projects funded by these agencies over the past 25 years.
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.
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.
The Institute for Community Studies is a related nonprofit company of Development Services Group, Inc. ICS is committed to using our expertise to improve outcomes and the quality of life among those we serve. ICS is a 501(c)(3) organization that has experience working with federal, state, local and non-governmental clients and partners. To learn more about ICS, visit the icsonline.org website.
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
. . . “Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.”
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere
Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.