Blueprints for Violence Prevention

Mihalic, Sharon; Fagan, Abigail A.; Irwin, Katherine; Ballard, Diane; Elliott, Delbert S.

doi:10.1037/e302992005-001

Cited by 94 publications

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“…Advances in prevention science over the past 2 decades have identified common risk factors for adolescent substance use and delinquent and violent behavior and have produced a growing list of tested and effective preventive interventions, 16, 17 yet these advances are not systematically used by local decision makers. 18-20 Widespread installation of tested and effective preventive interventions could have significant benefits to public health.…”

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Sustained Decreases in Risk Exposure and Youth Problem Behaviors After Installation of the Communities That Care Prevention System in a Randomized Trial

Hawkins

Oesterle

Brown

et al. 2012

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med

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To test whether the Communities That Care (CTC) prevention system reduced levels of risk and adolescent problem behaviors community-wide 6 years after installation of CTC and 1 year after study-provided resources ended.Design: A community randomized trial.Setting: Twenty-four small towns in 7 states, matched within state, randomly assigned to control or intervention condition in 2003.Participants: A panel of 4407 fifth-grade students was surveyed annually through 10th grade from 2004 to 2009.Intervention: A coalition of community stakeholders received training and technical assistance to install CTC, used epidemiologic data to identify elevated risk factors and depressed protective factors in the community, and implemented programs to address their community's elevated risks from a menu of tested and effective programs for youths aged 10 to 14 years, their families, and schools.Outcome Measures: Levels of risk and incidence and prevalence of tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use; delinquency; and violent behavior by grade 10.Results: Mean levels of targeted risks increased less rapidly between grades 5 and 10 in CTC than in control communities and were significantly lower in CTC than control communities in grade 10. The incidence of delinquent behavior, alcohol use, and cigarette use and the prevalence of current cigarette use and past-year delinquent and violent behavior were significantly lower in CTC than in control communities in grade 10.Conclusions: Using the CTC system can produce enduring reductions in community-wide levels of risk factors and problem behaviors among adolescents beyond the years of supported implementation, potentially contributing to long-term public health benefits.

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Sustained Decreases in Risk Exposure and Youth Problem Behaviors After Installation of the Communities That Care Prevention System in a Randomized Trial

Hawkins

Oesterle

Brown

et al. 2012

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med

126

125

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“…Doing so often entails extensive planning, training, and quality assurance in the EBP involving a complex set of interactions among developers and system leaders, front line staff, and consumers. In fact, it is generally understood from the literature that it takes an agency a minimum of two years to complete implementation (Fixsen & Blasé, 2009) and that the success of a program is largely dependent on the success of the implementation methods (Mihalic et al, 2004). However, little is known about which aspects of these methods and interactions are most important for successful implementation (Fixsen, Naoom, Blasé, Friedman, & Wallace, 2005).…”

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Predicting Program Start-Up Using the Stages of Implementation Measure

Saldana

Chamberlain

Wang

et al. 2011

Adm Policy Ment Health

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Recent efforts to better understand the process of implementation have been hampered by a lack of tools available to define and measure implementation progress. The Stages of Implementation Completion (SIC) was developed as part of an implementation trial of MTFC in 53 sites, and identifies the duration of time spent on implementation activities and the proportion of activities completed. This paper examines the ability of the first three stages of the SIC (Engagement, Consideration of Feasibility, Readiness Planning) to predict successful program start-up. Results suggest that completing SIC stages completely, yet relatively quickly, predicts the likelihood of successful implementation.

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“…School-based curricula, certain structured afterschool activities, community- and home-based parent training programs, and community-wide prevention strategies have all been found to be effective in reducing adolescent drug use, delinquency, violence, and other problem behaviors (Hawkins & Catalano, 2004; Mihalic, Fagan, Irwin, Ballard, & Elliott, 2004; Sherman, Gottfredson, MacKenzie, Eck, Reuter, & Bushway, 1997; Welsh & Farrington, 2006). …”

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Translational research in action: implementation of the communities that care prevention system in 12 communities

Fagan

Hanson

Hawkins

et al. 2009

Journal Community Psychology

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Translational research (Pentz, Jasuja, Rohrbach, Sussman, & Bardo, 2006; Woolf, 2008) is concerned with moving advances in prevention science into everyday practice in communities, yet there are few models for ensuring this transfer of knowledge. Communities That Care (CTC) provides a planned, structured, and data-driven system that trains community prevention coalitions to select evidence-based programs and replicate them with strong implementation fidelity. This paper describes the implementation of the CTC prevention system in 12 communities participating in the Community Youth Development Study. The results indicated that intervention communities enacted, on average, 90% of the core components of the CTC system, and achieved high rates of implementation fidelity when replicating school, afterschool, and parent training programs. These results held over time; communities successfully launched their prevention coalitions and programs and maintained the quality of their prevention services over five years. These results indicate that the CTC system can be used to foster translational research.

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Blueprints for Violence Prevention

Cited by 94 publications

References 4 publications

Sustained Decreases in Risk Exposure and Youth Problem Behaviors After Installation of the Communities That Care Prevention System in a Randomized Trial

Sustained Decreases in Risk Exposure and Youth Problem Behaviors After Installation of the Communities That Care Prevention System in a Randomized Trial

Predicting Program Start-Up Using the Stages of Implementation Measure

Translational research in action: implementation of the communities that care prevention system in 12 communities

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