Science-Based Prevention through Communities That Care: A Model of Social Work Practice for Public Health

Haggerty, Kevin P.; Shapiro, Valerie B.

doi:10.1080/19371918.2013.774812

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“…Although PROSPER and CTC are both coalition-based approaches, there are important differences between them. While PROSPER focuses on drug use prevention, CTC focuses on impacting shared risk and protective factors for multiple health and behavior problems (Haggerty and Shapiro 2013). CTC does not prescribe specific programs for parents and students, but trains the local coalition to choose from a menu of tested programs that best address the community’s profile of risk and protection.…”

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Building Local Infrastructure for Community Adoption of Science-Based Prevention: The Role of Coalition Functioning

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The widespread adoption of science-based prevention requires local infrastructures for prevention service delivery. Communities That Care (CTC) is a tested prevention service delivery system that enables a local coalition of community stakeholders to use a science-based approach to prevention and improve the behavioral health of young people. This paper uses data from the Community Youth Development Study (CYDS), a community-randomized trial of CTC, to examine the extent to which better internal team functioning of CTC coalitions increases the community-wide adoption of science-based prevention within 12 communities, relative to 12 matched comparison communities. Specifically, this paper examines the potential of both a direct relationship between coalition functioning and the community-wide adoption of science-based prevention and a direct relationship between functioning and the coalition capacities that ultimately enable the adoption of science-based prevention. Findings indicate no evidence of a direct relationship between four dimensions of coalition functioning and the community-wide adoption of a science-based approach to prevention, but suggest a relationship between coalition functioning and coalition capacities (building new member skills and establishing external linkages with existing community organizations) that enable science-based prevention.

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“…Thus, those countries that cover a broader range of family risk levels also tend to include group formats. This is not surprising, as group interventions have been identified as the most suitable for early prevention (Haggerty & Shapiro, ). Similarly to previous studies, our results support the idea that cross‐national diversity in the risk level of the target population may in part be due to different historical traditions in relation to child welfare policy and practice (Boddy et al, ).…”

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Family education and support for families at psychosocial risk in Europe: Evidence from a survey of international experts

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Suárez

Lara

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There is overwhelming consensus among policy makers, academics, and professionals about the need to support families in their childrearing tasks. Consequently, European countries have been encouraged to develop family support interventions aimed at guaranteeing children's rights, targeting particularly those children in situations of psychosocial risk. While a certain amount of evidence exists regarding how family support is generally delivered in certain European countries, with a particular focus on parenting initiatives, this paper aims to take existing evidence one step further by providing an updated review focusing on two core components of the Council of Europe's Recommendation on Positive Parenting: families at psychosocial risk as the target population, and family education and support initiatives as the delivery format. The scope of the study was therefore broad, in both geographical and conceptual terms. An online survey was conducted with experts from 19 European countries to gather information regarding how they perceive family education and support initiatives for families at psychosocial risk. Both quantitative and qualitative data were analysed by computing frequencies/percentages and by following a thematic synthesis method, respectively. The results revealed both similarities and disparities as regards provider profiles, intervention characteristics, and quality standards. Practical implications are discussed, such as the need to diversify initiatives for at‐risk families in accordance with the tenets of progressive universalism, the ongoing need for an evidence‐based, pluralistic approach to programmes, and the skills and qualifications required in the family support workforce. This study constitutes a first step towards building a common family support framework at a European level, which would encompass family support and parenting policies aimed at families at psychosocial risk.

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“…Strengths-based social work involves engaging and leveraging resources in the individual and social environment to promote well-being (Saleebey, 2008; Simmons & Lehmann, 2013). CTC is a strengths-based approach to social work practice (Haggerty & Shapiro, 2013) that uses a risk and protective paradigm (Coie et al, 1993; Pollard, Hawkins, & Arthur, 1999) to identify individual and environmental strengths. Studies have identified protective factors in the individual, peer, family, school, and community domains shown to decrease the likelihood of problem behaviors and/or mitigate the effects of risk exposure (Bowers et al, 2011; Losel & Farrington, 2012).…”

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Assessing Sustained Effects of Communities That Care on Youth Protective Factors

Kim

Oesterle

Hawkins

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Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research

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Objective The Communities That Care (CTC) prevention system seeks to build community capacity for a science-based approach to the promotion of healthy youth development. Prior research shows the positive effects of CTC on youth protective factors during CTC implementation. This research tests sustained effects of CTC on youth protective factors 1 year after external support to communities for CTC implementation ended. Method Data come from a community-randomized trial of CTC in 24 communities across 7 states. A panel of 4,407 youth in CTC and control communities was surveyed annually from Grade 5 through Grade 10. Youth reported their exposure to protective factors identified in the social development model. Global test statistics are calculated to examine effects of CTC across 15 protective factors in 5 domains (community, school, family, peer, and individual) assessed in Grade 10, 1 year after study support for CTC implementation ended. Analyses also examine variation in sustained effects by gender and baseline risk levels. Results Global effects of CTC on protective factors across all domains are not sustained in Grade 10. However, sustained domain-specific effects are observed in the individual domain for males, in the peer domain for females, and in the individual domain for youth with low-to-medium risk at baseline. Conclusions Greater emphasis on strengthening protective factors during high school might be needed to sustain broad effects of CTC on protective factors observed during middle school.

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Science-Based Prevention through Communities That Care: A Model of Social Work Practice for Public Health

Cited by 19 publications

References 124 publications

Building Local Infrastructure for Community Adoption of Science-Based Prevention: The Role of Coalition Functioning

Building Local Infrastructure for Community Adoption of Science-Based Prevention: The Role of Coalition Functioning

Family education and support for families at psychosocial risk in Europe: Evidence from a survey of international experts

Assessing Sustained Effects of Communities That Care on Youth Protective Factors

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