Translational research in action: implementation of the communities that care prevention system in 12 communities
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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. 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. The results indicated that the intervention communities enacted, on average, 90% of the core components of the CTC system, and achieved high rates of implementation fidelity when replicating a variety of 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 5 years. These results indicate that the CTC system can be used to foster translational research. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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Similar scaling-out approaches are possible when implementing other types of interventions including evidence-based decision support systems such as Communities that Care.
“Similar scaling-out approaches are possible when implementing other types of interventions including evidence-based decision support systems, such as Communities that Care [68–72], which helps communities decide which among a menu of EBIs are most appropriate to implement, rather than a single intervention.”
From “Scaling-out” evidence-based interventions to new populations or new health care delivery systems (2017) · cites this paper as [70]
Community partnership models have been shown to enhance selection, adoption, and sustained use of EBIs.
“Community partnership models are another form of organizational development intervention that have been shown to enhance selection, adoption, and sustained use of EBIs (Fagan et al. 2009; Spoth et al. 2011; Spoth and Greenberg 2011).”
From Standards of Evidence for Efficacy, Effectiveness, and Scale-up Research in Prevention Science: Next Generation (2015) · cites this paper as Fagan et al. 2009
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- Arthur MW Blitz C 2000 Bridging the gap between science and practice in drug abuse prevention through needs assessment and strategic community planning Journal of Community Psychology 28 3 241 255
- Fagan AA Hawkins JD Catalano RF Shinn M Yoshikawa H 2008 Using community epidemiologic data to improve social settings: The Communities That Care prevention system The power of social settings: Promoting youth development by changing schools and community programs 292 312 New York Oxford University Press
- Authors
- Fagan, A. A., Hanson, K., Hawkins, J. D., & Arthur, M. W.
- Affiliations
- University of South Carolina (US)
- University of Washington (US)
- Corresponding author
- Fagan, Abigail A.
- Venue
- Journal of Community Psychology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2009-08-21
- Volume
- 37
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 809-829
- ISSN
- 0090-4392 (ISSN-L)
- 1520-6629
- PMC
- PMC3222885
- OpenAlex
- W2061845765
- Cited by
- 84
- References
- 53
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- FWCI
- 6.64
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Journal of Community Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA015183)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Policy Implementation Science
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Community Health and Development
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Keywords
- Communities That Care, translational research, implementation fidelity, prevention science, school-based prevention, after-school programs, parent training
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