2010 · Study · English
Implementation of the Communities That Care prevention system by coalitions in the Community Youth Development Study
Arthur, M. W., Hawkins, J. D., Brown, E. C., Briney, J. S., Oesterle, S., & Abbott, R. D.
Arthur, M. W., Hawkins, J. D., Brown, E. C., Briney, J. S., Oesterle, S., & Abbott, R. D. (2010). Implementation of the Communities That Care prevention system by coalitions in the Community Youth Development Study. Journal of Community Psychology, 38(2), 245–258. doi.org/10.1002/jcop.20362
Summary
Implementation paper from the Community Youth Development Study, the randomised community-level trial of Communities That Care. Its starting point is the gap between the growing list of tested, effective programmes and policies for preventing adolescent delinquency and drug use and their poor dissemination and quality of implementation in communities. The study compares the 12 prevention coalitions implementing CTC in the intervention communities with the prevention coalitions found in the 12 control communities. As hypothesised, the CTC coalitions implemented significantly more of CTC's core intervention elements and significantly more tested, effective prevention programmes than the control coalitions. The authors discuss what this means for achieving widespread dissemination of effective programmes, policies and practices. The paper is the clearest demonstration that CTC changes what coalitions actually do, which is the mechanism through which the trial's later youth outcomes are expected to arise.