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Communities That Care
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What is Communities That Care? (CTC)
• Operating system” that focuses on risk and protective factors to provide structure for community efforts to address youth issues.
• Addresses:• Substance abuse• Delinquency• Teen pregnancy• School dropout• Violence
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Community Risk Factors
• Availability of drugs.• Availability of firearms.• Community laws and norms favorable to
drug use, firearms, and crime.• Media portrayals of violence.• Transitions and mobility.• Low neighborhood attachment and
community disorganization.• Extreme economic deprivation.
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Family Risk Factors
• Family history of problem behavior.• Family management problems.• Family conflict.• Parental attitudes toward, and involvement
in, substance abuse, crime, and violence.
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School Risk Factors
• Early and persistent antisocial behavior.
• Academic failure in elementary school.• Lack of commitment to school.
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Individual/Peer Risk Factors
• Alienation and rebelliousness.• Friends who engage in problem behaviors.• Early initiation of a problem behavior.• Constitutional factors.
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Individual Protective Factors
• Gender• Resilient temperament• Positive orientation• Intelligence
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Positive Factor: Bonding
• Parents and families• Other significant adults• Teachers, school• Peer groups• Organizations• Community
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How Protective Factors Counter Risk
• Individual characteristics provide a foundation for healthy behavior.
• To develop or enhance individual characteristics, children and adolescents are given a chance to contribute to their families, schools, and communities. Youth need:• Skills.• The opportunity to contribute.• Recognition for their contribution.
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How Protective Factors Counter Risk (cont.)
• Contribution leads to bonding.• For a bonded child or adolescent, the provision of
healthy beliefs and clear standards furnish the structure and corrective feedback needed for positive development.
• Ultimately, this progression leads to healthy behavior.
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Advantages to the CTC Approach
• Grounded in theory and practice.• Inclusive and participatory.• Takes a community perspective.• Involves training at every step.• Provides a menu of “best practices” from which to
choose.• Is adapted to its own needs by each community.• Includes evaluation and adjustment as an integral
part of any effort.• Seems to work for most problem behaviors.
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Disadvantages to the CTC Approach
• Only inclusive and participatory for certain people.• Allows the choice of only a finite number of
approaches.• Choosing from “best practices” may encourage
communities to merely follow directions rather than throwing heart and soul into the effort.
• Narrowly focused.• To a certain extent, based on assumptions.• Has a service to sell.
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Who should be involved in CTC?
• People directly affected by the problem behaviors.• People affected indirectly by the problem
behaviors.• Community leaders and decision-makers.• Those with community interest.• The media.
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How do you employ the CTC approach?
• Awareness.• Education.• Community mobilization.• Community assessment.• Prevention plan development.• Program implementation.• Outcomes evaluation.
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Community Assessment
• Youth survey.• Census and accompanying GIS data.• Archival records.• Direct contact with youth and other citizens.
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Resources to Support the CTC Approach
• Money• Expertise• People• Avenues to reach youth