2019 · Book · English
Communities that care: Building community engagement and capacity to prevent youth behavior problems
Fagan, A. A., Hawkins, J. D., Farrington, D. P., & Catalano, R. F.
Fagan, A. A., Hawkins, J. D., Farrington, D. P., & Catalano, R. F. (2019). Communities that care: Building community engagement and capacity to prevent youth behavior problems. Oxford University Press. doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190299217.001.0001
Summary
Book by the developers and leading evaluators of Communities That Care, setting out the conditions and actions required for effective community-based prevention. Its chapters cover how communities build readiness for prevention among local stakeholders, form and sustain diverse and well-functioning coalitions, conduct local needs and resource assessments, agree on priorities collectively, select evidence-based interventions that fit prioritised needs, resources and context, and implement them with fidelity and sustain them over time. CTC is described in detail as the worked example: a coalition-based system shown to promote healthy youth development and reduce behaviour problems community-wide by raising support for evidence-based interventions, encouraging positive interaction between residents and young people, using local data to set priorities, matching interventions to those priorities and ensuring they are coordinated, delivered faithfully, widely disseminated and evaluated. The book also recounts CTC's development through community-based participatory research and the rigorous trial that tested it, making it the standard reference for anyone introducing the system in Europe.