Communities that care : building community engagement and capacity to prevent youth behavior problems /

Communities that Care provides an in-depth examination and illustrative examples of how communities can increase their capacity to engage in evidence-based, community-driven approaches to improve public health and prevent youth behavior problems.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fagan, Abigail A. (Author), Hawkins, J. David (Author), Catalano, Richard F. (Author), Farrington, David P. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Overview of the communities that care system : theoretical basis, development, evaluation, and comparison to other community-based preventive interventions
  • Community-based prevention of youth behavioral health problems
  • Theoretical perspectives guiding the development and evaluation of CTC
  • The development and evaluation of CTC
  • Implementing CTC and similar community-based preventive interventions
  • The importance of readiness and high-functioning coalitions in community-based prevention
  • Improving community capacity to conduct comprehensive prevention needs assessments
  • Increasing the use of evidence-based interventions to reduce youth behavioral health problems
  • Ensuring high quality implementation and sustainability of evidence-based interventions and coalitions
  • Evaluating CTC
  • Findings from the community youth development study
  • A state-wide effectiveness trial of CTC in Pennsylvania
  • Moving forward: what is needed to successfully implement CTC and other community-based prevention systems
  • The future of CTC and community-based prevention.