2018 · Book chapter · English
The Future of CTC and Community-Based Prevention
Fagan, A. A., Hawkins, J. D., Catalano, R. F., & Farrington, D. P.
Fagan, A. A., Hawkins, J. D., Catalano, R. F., & Farrington, D. P. (2018). The Future of CTC and Community-Based Prevention. Oxford University Press. doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190299217.003.0010
Summary
Closing chapter of the 2018 Oxford University Press book Communities That Care: Building Community Engagement and Capacity to Prevent Youth Behavior Problems, written by the system’s developers and its principal evaluators. The authors note that community-based prevention is widely expected to reduce youth behavioural health problems, yet few such systems have been evaluated well enough to show it. They review the impact of CTC, then identify the components they consider responsible for the changes in community norms and processes the trial documented and for the system’s effectiveness and cost-effectiveness. A section on challenges addresses what communities in the United States and abroad may encounter when implementing CTC or similar interventions, with proposed solutions. The chapter ends with recent developments: an online training system that replaces much of the face-to-face delivery, and international replications. For European readers the international and training sections are the most immediately useful; the book as a whole is the current standard reference on the model.