Citation

Fagan AA, Hanson K, Hawkins JD, Arthur MW. J. Community Psychol. 2009; 37(7): 809-829.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/jcop.20332

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

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. In this article, the authors describe the implementation of the CTC prevention system over a 5-year period in 12 communities participating in the Community Youth Development Study.