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Communities that care : building community engagement and capacity to prevent youth behavior problems / Abigail A. Fagan, [and three others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fagan, Abigail A., author.
- Hawkins, J. David, author.
- Farrington, David P., author.
- Catalano, Richard F., author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Juvenile delinquents--United States--Social conditions.
- Juvenile delinquents.
- Youth--Mental health services--United States.
- Youth.
- Community health services--United States.
- Community health services.
- Behavior modification--United States.
- Behavior modification.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- Evidence-based, prevention-oriented, and community-driven approaches are advocated to improve public health and reduce youth behavior problems, but there are few effective models for doing so. This text advances knowledge about this topic by describing the conditions and actions necessary for effective community-based prevention.
- Contents:
- Overview of the communities that care system : theoretical basis, development, evaluation, and comparison to other community-based preventive interventions
- Community-based prevention of youth behavioral health problems
- Theoretical perspectives guiding the development and evaluation of CTC
- The development and evaluation of CTC
- Implementing CTC and similar community-based preventive interventions
- The importance of readiness and high-functioning coalitions in community-based prevention
- Improving community capacity to conduct comprehensive prevention needs assessments
- Increasing the use of evidence-based interventions to reduce youth behavioral health problems
- Ensuring high quality implementation and sustainability of evidence-based interventions and coalitions
- Evaluating CTC
- Findings from the community youth development study
- A state-wide effectiveness trial of CTC in Pennsylvania
- Moving forward: what is needed to successfully implement CTC and other community-based prevention systems
- The future of CTC and community-based prevention.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-029924-X
- 0-19-029925-8
- 0-19-029923-1
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