2015 · Study · English
Assessing Sustained Effects of Communities That Care on Youth Protective Factors
Kim, B. K. E., Oesterle, S., Hawkins, J. D., & Shapiro, V. B.
Kim, B. K. E., Oesterle, S., Hawkins, J. D., & Shapiro, V. B. (2015). Assessing Sustained Effects of Communities That Care on Youth Protective Factors. Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research, 6(4), 565–589. doi.org/10.1086/684163
Summary
Follow-up analysis in the Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research of the CTC trial (24 communities, seven states), asking whether the gains in protective factors seen during implementation survived the withdrawal of support. The panel of 4,407 young people was surveyed annually from grade 5 to grade 10; grade 10 fell one year after study funding for CTC implementation ended. Global test statistics assessed CTC effects across 15 social-development-model protective factors in five domains (community, school, family, peer, individual). The global effect across all domains was no longer significant in grade 10. Domain-specific sustained effects remained for boys in the individual domain, for girls in the peer domain, and in the individual domain for youth with low-to-medium baseline risk. The authors conclude that the broad effects on protection observed in middle school may need deliberate reinforcement during the high-school years. Companion to Kim et al. (2014): the effects were real but faded.