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Communities That Care (CTC)

A comprehensive prevention approach for communities

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Community coalitions are a strategy to coordinate activities and resources to prevent adolescent substance use and delinquent behaviour. They can bring together diverse community stakeholders to address a common goal and have the benefit of mobilising communities in prevention and health promotion initiatives. The Communities That Care (CTC) approach is based on the premise that the prevalence of adolescent health and behaviour problems in a community can be reduced by identifying strong risk factors and weak protective factors experienced by the community’s young people and by then selecting tested and effective prevention and early intervention programmes that address these specific risk and protective factors. For this review, we found a total of five studies evaluating the effectiveness of CTC and one narrative review of international organisations, mainly from outside the EU. Overall, our analysis suggests some evidence of effectiveness of the CTC approach as a drug prevention initiative in the non‑EU studies. As cultural factors probably play an important role in the implementation of this sort of community mobilisation approach, this review suggests that effectiveness still needs to be assessed in a European context. It would then be possible to evaluate the CTC approach in Europe through a multisite randomised controlled trial. Given the findings from existing studies and the well‑developed theoretical model behind CTC, further investigation of this prevention model within the European context appears to be merited.
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ISSN 2315-1463
ISBN 978-92-9497-049-7
DOI 10.2810/972747
Catalogue number TD-AU-17-001-EN-N
ISBN 978-92-9497-048-0
DOI 10.2810/68897
Catalogue number TD-AU-17-001-EN-C
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ISSN 2315-1463 ISBN 978-92-9497-049-7 DOI 10.2810/972747 Catalogue number TD-AU-17-001-EN-N
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ISSN ISBN 978-92-9497-048-0 DOI 10.2810/68897 Catalogue number TD-AU-17-001-EN-C
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