2008 · Study · English
Installing the Communities That Care Prevention System: Implementation Progress and Fidelity in a Randomized Controlled Trial
Quinby, R. K., Hanson, K., Brooke-Weiss, B., Arthur, M. W., Hawkins, J. D., & Fagan, A. A.
Quinby, R. K., Hanson, K., Brooke-Weiss, B., Arthur, M. W., Hawkins, J. D., & Fagan, A. A. (2008). Installing the Communities That Care Prevention System: Implementation Progress and Fidelity in a Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Community Psychology, 36(3), 313–332. doi.org/10.1002/jcop.20194
Summary
Fidelity report from the first 18 months of the Community Youth Development Study, the five-year group-randomised trial of Communities That Care in 12 US intervention communities. Installation followed the standard CTC protocol: six trainings delivered by certified trainers at each site, a locally recruited community coordinator, ongoing monitoring against the CTC milestones and benchmarks, and proactive technical assistance and coaching. Three groups of raters judged progress on each milestone of the first four CTC phases. Averaged across raters, between 89% and 100% of those milestones were rated “completely met” or “majority met”, indicating that the early phases had been implemented with high fidelity. The paper reports no youth outcomes; its value lies in documenting that the CTC process itself can be installed as designed, a precondition for interpreting the trial’s later effect estimates and a benchmark for European sites monitoring their own phase progress.