The Community Youth Development Study: A Test of Communities That Care

社区青年发展研究： 对关爱社区的考验 摘要 这项为期五年的竞争性续签将评估关爱社区(CTC)的长期影响 预防体系。反恐系统是动员社区利用预防科学规划的一项战略。 实施战略性社区预防服务。CTC的非实验评估表明，它 可以帮助社区发展更有效的预防服务系统，减少青少年健康 和行为问题(Arthur等人，2003；Feinberg等人，2005；Harachi等人，1996；Jensen等人，1997)。 目前的研究是CTC疗效的第一个随机对照试验。CTC系统正在 在当前研究的干预社区中忠实地实施。这项研究目前显示 在实施四氯化碳三年后，对风险暴露和犯罪行为的早期影响。 拟议的更新将评估四氯化碳对社区预防服务系统关键方面的影响。 以及关于青少年吸毒、犯罪、暴力和危险性行为的报告，在该计划启动九年后 四年后，研究提供的支持四氯化碳的资源结束。社区青年发展研究是对社区青年发展的一次实验测试 关爱社区(CTC)预防规划系统。它的设计目的是找到 如果使用CTC系统的社区能够通过以下方式改善公共卫生 降低青少年吸毒、青少年犯罪、暴力和危险性行为的比率 与不使用此方法的社区相比时的行为。

The Community Youth Development Study: A Test of Communities That Care Abstract This five-year competing renewal will assess the long-term effects of the Communities That Care (CTC) prevention system. The CTC system is a strategy for mobilizing communities to use prevention science to plan and implement strategic community prevention services. Non-experimental evaluations of CTC suggest that it can assist communities to develop more effective prevention service systems and reduce adolescent health and behavior problems (Arthur et al., 2003; Feinberg et al., 2005; Harachi et al., 1996; Jensen et al., 1997). The current study is the first randomized controlled trial of CTC's efficacy. The CTC system is being implemented with fidelity in the intervention communities of the current study. The study is currently showing early effects on risk exposure and the initiation of delinquent behavior after three years of CTC implementation. The proposed renewal will assess the effects of CTC on key aspects of community prevention service systems and on adolescent drug use, delinquency, violence and risky sexual behaviors nine years after its initiation and four years after study-provided resources supporting CTC end. The Community Youth Development Study is an experimental test of the Communities That Care (CTC) prevention planning system. It is designed to find out if communities that use the CTC system can improve the public health by reducing rates of adolescent drug use, delinquency, violence, and risky sexual behavior when compared to communities that do not use this approach.