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Communities that care : building community engagement and capacity to prevent youth behavior problems / Abigail A. Fagan, J. David Hawkins, Richard F. Catalano, David P. Farrington.

Fagan, Abigail A., (author.). Hawkins, J. David, (author.). Catalano, Richard F., (author.). Farrington, David P., (author.). Cullen, Francis T., (writer of foreword.).

Summary:

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.

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  • ISBN: 9780190299217
  • ISBN: 0190299215
  • ISBN: 9780190299224
  • ISBN: 0190299223
  • Physical Description: xvi, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Foreword / Francis T. Cullen -- Section One: 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 -- Section Two: 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 -- Section Three: Evaluating CTC -- Findings from the community youth development study -- A state-wide effectiveness trial of CTC in Pennsylvania -- Section Four: Moving forward: what is needed to successfully implement CTC and other community-based prevention systems? -- The future of CTC and community-based prevention.

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Subject: Juvenile delinquents > United States > Social conditions.
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Communities That Care : Building Community Engagement and Capacity to Prevent Youth Behavior Problems
Communities That Care : Building Community Engagement and Capacity to Prevent Youth Behavior Problems
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Communities That Care : Building Community Engagement and Capacity to Prevent Youth Behavior Problems

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Fagan et al. describe and lay out a plan for the development of CTC (Communities That Care) programs. The CTC approach rests on three assumptions. First, while the general public in the US holds punitive attitudes toward youth who do not conform to contemporary community standards, there is almost universal support for the use of rehabilitation or correction programs for these youth in the same communities. Second, a successful intervention should be broadly based in the community it serves. Third, programs need to be evidence-based using diagnostic procedures and community resource and needs assessments. The authors support their positions with summaries of relevant research. The book is well written and within the reach of the average reader. It is well referenced and adequately indexed. The authors make effective use of tables, charts, and illustrations. Communities That Care is recommended for the general holdings of all libraries and will be particularly useful to citizen activists, community developers, practitioners, and researchers focused on the treatment of troubled youth. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty. --Robert T. Sigler, emeritus, University of Alabama

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