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.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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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.