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Communities that Care
Building Community Engagement and Capacity to Prevent Youth Behavior Problems
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Scholars and policymakers increasingly call for evidence-based, prevention-oriented, and community-driven approaches to improve public health and reduce youth crime, substance use, and related problems. However, few functional models exist. In Communities that Care, four leading experts on prevention describe one such system to illustrate how communities effectively engage in prevention activities. Communities That Care (CTC) is a coalition-based prevention
system implemented successfully in dozens of communities across the world that promotes healthy development and reduces crime rates for youth. Drawing on literature from criminology, community psychology, and prevention science this book describes the conditions and actions necessary for effective
community-based prevention. The authors illustrate how effective community-based prevention can be undertaken by describing how the CTC prevention system has been developed, implemented, evaluated, and disseminated across the U.S. and internationally. Communities that Care shares invaluable lessons about the implementation and evaluation of community-level interventions and establishes a set of best practices for anyone seeking to engage in and/or evaluate effective prevention
efforts.


Contents:

Preface by Francis Cullen
Chapter 1: Community-Based Prevention of Youth Behavioral Health Problems
Chapter 2: Theoretical Perspectives Guiding the Development and Evaluation of CTC
Chapter 3: The Development and Evaluation of CTC
Chapter 4: The Importance of Readiness and High-Functioning Coalitions in Community-based Prevention
Chapter 5: Improving Community Capacity to Conduct Comprehensive Prevention Needs Assessments
Chapter 6: Increasing the Use of Evidence-based Interventions to Reduce Youth Behavioral Health Problems
Chapter 7: Ensuring High Quality Implementation and Sustainability of Evidence-based Interventions and Coalitions
Chapters 8: Findings from the Community Youth Development Study
Chapter 9: A State-wide Effectiveness Trial of CTC in Pennsylvania
Chapter 10: The Future of CTC and Community-based Prevention


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ISBN-13: 9780190299224
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
Publication date: January, 2019
Pages: 368
Dimensions: 156.00 x 236.00 x 26.00
Weight: 494g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Public Health
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