2007 · Study · English
Effects of Communities That Care on Prevention Services Systems: Findings From the Community Youth Development Study at 1.5 Years
Brown, E. C., Hawkins, J. D., Arthur, M. W., Briney, J. S., & Abbott, R. D.
Brown, E. C., Hawkins, J. D., Arthur, M. W., Briney, J. S., & Abbott, R. D. (2007). Effects of Communities That Care on Prevention Services Systems: Findings From the Community Youth Development Study at 1.5 Years. Prevention Science, 8(3), 180–191. doi.org/10.1007/s11121-007-0068-3
Summary
First system-level outcome paper from the Community Youth Development Study, the community-randomised trial of Communities That Care, reporting change in three community outcomes 1.5 years after CTC was introduced in 12 communities. Data came from the Community Key Informant Survey administered in 2001 and 2004 to 534 community leaders across all 24 communities, representing multiple sectors in each. Multilevel analyses controlling for respondent and community characteristics showed that CTC and control communities started from comparable levels of adopting a science-based approach to prevention, of collaboration across community sectors and of collaboration on specific prevention activities, and that CTC communities showed significantly greater increases on all three between 2001 and 2004. The authors conclude that CTC changed the proximal system outcomes theorised to lead to more effective prevention services and, in turn, to lower risk, stronger protection and better youth outcomes, the results that the German Röding et al. trial later set out to replicate.