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Communities That Care (CTC) is a community-based operating system for decreasing risk, enhancing protection, and reducing problem behavior in youth community wide. The approach has been developed and modified through community input and formative evaluation over 20 years. CTC provides communities with a structure for engaging stakeholders to improve youth development; a process for establishing a shared community vision; tools for assessing levels of risk and protection experienced by community youth; and a framework for prioritizing risk and protective factors, implementing evidence-based programs to address them, and monitoring and assessing attainment of specific, measurable community goals. CTC has been implemented in over 500 communities across the United States and countries including Australia, Canada, Croatia, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. All materials needed to implement CTC...
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The Community Youth Development Study was supported by research grant R01 DA015183-03 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, with co-funding from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. The content of this entry is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the funding agencies.
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Hawkins, J.D., Catalano, R.F., Kuklinski, M.R. (2014). Communities That Care. In: Bruinsma, G., Weisburd, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_581
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