2011 · Study · English
Prevention service system transformation using Communities That Care
Brown, E. C., Hawkins, J. D., Arthur, M. W., Briney, J. S., & Fagan, A. A.
Brown, E. C., Hawkins, J. D., Arthur, M. W., Briney, J. S., & Fagan, A. A. (2011). Prevention service system transformation using Communities That Care. Journal of Community Psychology, 39(2), 183–201. doi.org/10.1002/jcop.20426
Summary
Analysis in the Journal of Community Psychology of how the local prevention system changed 4.5 years into the community-randomised CTC trial, based on surveys of key community leaders. The significantly higher adoption of a science-based approach to prevention seen in CTC communities in 2004 was maintained in 2007, and leaders in CTC communities were willing to commit significantly more funding to prevention than their counterparts in control communities. The difference in community collaboration observed in 2004, however, had not lasted by 2007. Two subgroup findings are reported: in communities with high poverty rates, leaders in CTC towns reported stronger norms against drug use, and in communities with large minority student populations they reported greater use of the social development strategy, each relative to control communities with similar characteristics. Together with the 2013 follow-up by Rhew et al., this paper shows which system-level changes CTC holds onto and which it does not.