2024 · Article · German
CTC: kommunale Gesundheitsförderung bei Kindern und Jugendlichen
Groeger-Roth, F.
Groeger-Roth, F. (2024). CTC: kommunale Gesundheitsförderung bei Kindern und Jugendlichen. Public Health Forum, 32(3), 242–244. doi.org/10.1515/pubhef-2024-0070
Summary
Short German-language overview in Public Health Forum by Frederick Groeger-Roth of the Lower Saxony Crime Prevention Council, the body that transferred Communities That Care to Germany. It sets out the foundations of CTC as a method for municipal health promotion and how a municipality puts it into practice: a local steering structure, a youth survey that measures risk and protective factors, and a data-driven action plan that concentrates prevention on the factors that matter most locally for health-related behaviour problems among children and adolescents. Programmes whose effectiveness has been tested are selected from the Grüne Liste Prävention register to fit the identified needs and anchored permanently in the municipality’s regular institutions rather than run as add-on projects. Written for public-health readers rather than crime-prevention specialists, it is a concise entry point for European practitioners who want the CTC logic in a few pages; it presents no new empirical data.