CTC in Europe
What is publicly documented about Communities That Care in each country: current processes, past projects and survey adaptations, and the organisations behind them. This site compiles public information and does not speak for the organisations or initiatives named. Every entry is sourced and dated; organisations are named when they have agreed to it or when their role is documented in public sources.
- Countries with documented activity
- 11
- EU-funded projects since 2008
- 4
Organisations are named when they have agreed to it or when their CTC role is documented in public sources; each entry says which. Countries are shown as soon as CTC activity there is documented, including past projects.
Legend
- Established
- CTC processes have run here for years, with a partner organisation that trains and supports communities.
- Piloting
- First communities are going through the five phases; results are not in yet.
- Adapting
- The method and the survey are being adapted to the country; no community process yet.
- Survey adapted
- The CTC youth survey has been translated and tested here, mostly through EU projects; no community process is known.
- Past projects
- CTC ran here in the past, as a programme or an EU project; no current activity is known.
- CTC municipalities (61)
- Communities running a CTC process: in Germany as on the German site, elsewhere as listed in the directory; dots without names.
- Schools in Germany (143)
- Schools That Care and Weitblick: the process adapted to a single school; dots without names.
Last reviewed 16 September 2026
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Continues the work of the EU-funded CTC European Network (2013–2015).
Beyond the municipality
Starting in the school, aiming at the municipality
It often takes years before a municipality or a district begins a CTC process. The youth survey is collected in schools anyway, so the process can also start inside one school: in Germany as Schools That Care and Weitblick, the light dots on the map.
The reasoning is simple. A community needs a mandate, a coordinator and a budget before its first survey, and that can take a long time. The data the process rests on, the anonymous youth survey, is collected in schools regardless, and in the US trial most of the tested programmes that the communities chose were delivered in schools. It can therefore make sense to begin inside a single school, with its own steering group, its own survey results and its own prevention plan. The aim does not change: after the school process, the data are carried across the interfaces, ideally into a CTC process at municipal level. The school is a first step, not a substitute for it.
In Germany this meets an obligation. Schools have been required by law to draw up prevention concepts, and the CTC survey gives them a sound basis for one. Schools That Care (STC) started as a cooperation of FINDER e.V. with the Crime Prevention Council of Lower Saxony: over about two years, a steering group of school management, teachers, school social work, parents and pupils runs the CTC phases inside one school, from the survey through a stocktake of what the school already offers to a written prevention plan with tested programmes from the Grüne Liste Prävention, the German register. Weitblick is its further development into a programme for schools of all types across Germany, free for the schools, funded by the Association of Private Health Insurers (PKV-Verband) from 2022 to 2026 and evaluated externally by Hannover Medical School (MHH) in a quasi-experimental sequential design with 72 schools in six waves. First school-level analyses of 11 intervention and 29 control schools report that the adoption of science-based prevention and cross-sector cooperation improved in the intervention schools only.
For this work the CTC youth survey was extended by further instruments, among them modules on media use, on physical activity and nutrition, and on sexualised violence. These modules are in turn available to municipalities that run the full CTC process, so that a school survey and a community survey can rest on the same questionnaire.
Sources (5)
- Fagan, A. A., Brooke-Weiss, B., Cady, R., & Hawkins, J. D. (2009). If at First You Don't Succeed ... Keep Trying: Strategies to Enhance Coalition/ School Partnerships to Implement School-Based Prevention Programming. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 42(3), 387–405. doi.org/10.1375/acri.42.3.387In the library →
- Röding, D., von Holt, I., Decker, L., & Walter, U. (2026). „Capacity building“ an Schulen – Schullevelanalysen zur Effektivität der Intervention WEITBLICK. Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung. doi.org/10.1007/s11553-026-01352-6In the library →
- Röding, D., Lenz, M.-C., Decker, L., von Holt, I., & Walter, U. (2025). Study protocol of a quasi-experimental evaluation of the school-based prevention system Weitblick. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-6367600/v1In the library →
- Röding, D., Lenz, M.-C., von Holt, I., Decker, L., & Walter, U. (2025). Einflussfaktoren der Implementation von Präventionsstrategien – Validierung eines Messinstruments für den Schulkontext. Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung, 21(2), 322–328. doi.org/10.1007/s11553-025-01208-5In the library →
- von Heyden, M., Hayn, K., & Voit, V. (2025). Schule trifft Kommune: Ein Beispiel für datengestützte, Setting übergreifende Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung. Das Gesundheitswesen, 87. doi.org/10.1055/s-0045-1802083In the library →
Network
Backed by Europe, meeting at EUSPR
The European Union has co-funded Communities That Care in Europe three times since 2008 and co-funds an Estonian pilot today, and since 2025 the European CTC groups hold a network meeting at the EUSPR conference each year.
EU-funded projects
- Current project2024–2027
Joint Action PreventNCD (2024–2027)
An EU4Health joint action of 25 countries on preventing cancer and other non-communicable diseases. Within it, Estonia's National Institute for Health Development is piloting Communities That Care in three communities, Harku, Rakvere and Nõmme in Tallinn, as one of its pilot actions, with training and implementation support from Prevention Sverige and in cooperation with the model's developers at the University of Washington and the German CTC implementers. The communities started between autumn 2025 and January 2026; Harku and Rakvere have run the youth survey and moved into the planning phases. It is the first EU-co-funded CTC implementation, as opposed to a network or a survey adaptation, since the CTC European Network.
- Programme
- EU4Health Joint Action PreventNCD (HaDEA) · 101128023
- Lead
- Tervise Arengu Instituut (National Institute for Health Development, Estonia), CTC pilot
- Partners
- Harku, Rakvere and Nõmme (Tallinn) as pilot communities (Estonia) · Prevention Sverige (Sweden), training and implementation support · Center for Communities That Care, University of Washington (USA), cooperation · German CTC implementers, cooperation
Results
- EU-funded project2008–2011
SPIN: CTC arrives in Germany (2008–2011)
"Sozialräumliche Prävention in Netzwerken": with a framework partnership under the EU's Prevention of and Fight against Crime Programme, the Crime Prevention Council of Lower Saxony adapted CTC and its youth survey for Germany with Dutch partners. It piloted the approach in three sites and built the Grüne Liste Prävention, the German register of evidence-based programmes.
- Programme
- Prevention of and Fight against Crime Programme (ISEC), framework partnership of the Crime Prevention Council of Lower Saxony with the European Commission
- Lead
- Landespräventionsrat Niedersachsen with LAG Soziale Brennpunkte Niedersachsen e.V.
- Partners
- Nederlands Jeugdinstituut (Netherlands) · Verwey-Jonker Instituut (Netherlands) · DSP-groep (Netherlands) · TH Köln, Forschungsschwerpunkt Sozial · Raum · Management (evaluation)
Results
- EU-funded project2013–2015
CTC European Network (2013–2015)
"Making CTC work at the European level": nine partners in seven countries compared youth-survey data across borders, reviewed Europe's effective prevention programmes against Blueprints standards and wrote the European CTC Implementation Guide. The programme review became the basis of the CTC entries in the EUDA Xchange register; the survey work became a Springer book in 2021.
- Programme
- Prevention of and Fight against Crime Programme (ISEC), European Commission, DG Home Affairs · HOME/2011/ISEC/AG/2522
- Lead
- Landespräventionsrat Niedersachsen (Crime Prevention Council of Lower Saxony)
- Partners
- Social Research Unit at Dartington (United Kingdom; now Dartington Service Design Lab) · Verwey-Jonker Instituut (Netherlands) · Seinpost Adviesbureau (Netherlands) · Hogeschool Leiden (Netherlands) · Institut Suchtprävention (pro mente Oberösterreich), Linz (Austria) · City of Malmö (Sweden) · University of Cyprus, Department of Law (Cyprus) · University of Zagreb (Croatia)
Results
- European CTC Implementation Guide (Groeger-Roth, van den Hazel, de Vries, 2016)
- What works in Europe: review of effective prevention programmes against Blueprints standards (Dartington, 2016), basis of the CTC entries in the EUDA Xchange register
- Delinquency and Substance Use in Europe: Understanding Risk and Protective Factors (Farrington, Jonkman & Groeger-Roth, eds., Springer 2021)
- EU-funded project2022–2023
Frontline Politeia (2022–2023)
An EU Justice Programme project led by HOGENT that took prevention-science training to the frontline of substance-use and crime prevention. Its local needs analysis used CTC tools, and the CTC youth survey was adapted and piloted in Estonia, Greece and Portugal, in Greece by the drugs monitoring centre EKTEPN in Athens and in Portugal by Iscte in Lisbon, with FINDER e.V., the University of Zagreb and the City of Malmö among the partners.
- Programme
- EU Justice Programme (JUST-2020-AG-DRUGS) · 101045880
- Lead
- HOGENT University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Belgium)
- Partners
- FINDER e.V. (Germany) · University of Zagreb, Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences (Croatia) · City of Malmö (Sweden) · Tervise Arengu Instituut (Estonia) · nine further partners
Results
- CTC youth survey adapted and piloted in Estonia, 265 pupils in Hiiumaa and Märjamaa (Siilbek & Streimann 2024)
- Greek adaptation, pilot with 669 pupils in Central Macedonia and reliability report of the CTC youth survey (EKTEPN 2024)
- CTC youth survey adapted for Portugal and run in the Azores schools in 2023, 1,218 pupils (Henriques & Rabelo 2024; CIES-Iscte report 2023)
- Prevention-science training for the substance-use and crime-prevention frontline, with CTC tools for local needs analysis
EUSPR annual conference
The European Society for Prevention Research brings prevention scientists and practitioners together every autumn. The European CTC groups use the pre-conference day and the programme to meet, compare adaptations and plan joint work: a network meeting in Ljubljana 2015, a CTC workshop in Cremona 2024, the European Network Meeting with the University of Washington in Berlin 2025, and Dublin 2026.
- Most recent
- Dublin, 15 – 18 September 2026
CTC in the conference programmes
Results
- 2025 Berlin: European Network Meeting of the CTC groups on the pre-conference day (convened by Frederick Groeger-Roth and Margaret Kuklinski, University of Washington), Symposium 4A "Preparing for Communities that Care" and Campfire 3B on CTC implementation across European contexts
- 2024 Cremona: pre-conference workshop "Getting started with Communities That Care"
- 2015 Ljubljana: network meeting of the European Communities That Care project
Last reviewed 16 September 2026
Country directory
Every country with documented CTC activity, past or present, its status and the organisations behind it. This directory compiles publicly available information; it does not speak for the organisations or initiatives named. Each entry rests on the sources listed and shows when it was last reviewed.
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| Germanysince 2009 | EstablishedLast reviewed 16 September 2026 |
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| Swedensince 2014 | EstablishedLast reviewed 16 September 2026 |
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| Estoniasince 2022 | PilotingLast reviewed 16 September 2026 |
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| Irelandsince 2025 | PilotingLast reviewed 16 September 2026 |
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| Greecesince 2022 | AdaptingLast reviewed 16 September 2026 |
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| Croatiasince 2002 | Survey adaptedLast reviewed 16 September 2026 |
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| Portugalsince 2022 | Survey adaptedLast reviewed 16 September 2026 |
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| Austria2013–2014 | Past projectsLast reviewed 16 September 2026 |
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| Cyprus2006–2012 | Past projectsLast reviewed 16 September 2026 |
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| United Kingdom1997–2009 | Past projectsLast reviewed 16 September 2026 |
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| Netherlands1999–2015 | Past projectsLast reviewed 16 September 2026 |
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