2008 · Study · English
Communities That Care, Core Elements and Context: Research of Implementation in Two Countries
Jonkman,H., Haggerty, K.P., Steketee, M., Fagan, A.A., Hanson, K., and J.D. Hawkins
Jonkman,H., Haggerty, K.P., Steketee, M., Fagan, A.A., Hanson, K., and J.D. Hawkins (2008). Communities That Care, Core Elements and Context: Research of Implementation in Two Countries. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2712284/
Summary
Two-country implementation study reporting how far the Communities That Care prevention operating system was put in place in 22 communities: 12 in the United States, taking part in the Community Youth Development Study, and 10 in the Netherlands. The paper sets out the core elements of CTC, the phased process, the coalition, the youth survey and community profile and the action plan built on tested programmes, and presents the results of two implementation measures administered in both countries, then discusses the similarities and differences in how the process unfolded. Published in Social Development Issues and available through PubMed Central, it is one of the first systematic comparisons of CTC implementation inside and outside the US and an early source on the adjustments the Dutch sites made. For European practitioners it documents which elements travel unchanged and where local conditions, above all the supply of tested programmes, shape what a coalition can do.