2017 · Book chapter · English
Communities That Care (Wiley Encyclopedia of Juvenile Delinquency)
Haggerty, K. P.
Haggerty, K. P. (2017). Communities That Care (Wiley Encyclopedia of Juvenile Delinquency). Wiley. doi.org/10.1002/9781118524275.ejdj0119
Summary
Encyclopaedia entry on Communities That Care in the Wiley Encyclopedia of Juvenile Delinquency and Justice, written by one of the system's developers. It presents CTC as a prevention system that gives communities the tools to address adolescent health and behaviour problems on a simple premise: identify the risk factors that are elevated and the protective factors that are depressed among local youth, then implement preventive interventions shown in rigorous trials to change those specific factors, and the prevalence of problem behaviours, delinquency among them, should fall. The entry describes how CTC engages community stakeholders in a shared vision and provides tools for assessment, prioritisation and goal setting, and it cites the evidence base as of 2017: the randomised controlled trial in 24 US communities and the quasi-experimental study in Pennsylvania. A short, citable definition of the system for reports and funding applications.