Resources
Publications
Communities That Care has been shown to be effective in reducing alcohol use, substance use, antisocial and violent behaviour, improving academic performance, and strengthening protective factors. In addition to these improvements to adolescent health and behaviour outcomes, large US and Australian trials have demonstrated that Communities That Care increases the adoption and implementation of evidence-based programs.
The below publications provide evidence for the effectiveness of Communities That Care.
2022
Communities That Care Prospectus
Evaluation of Communities That Care - Effects on Municipal Youth Crime Rates in Victoria, Australia: 2010 – 2019
Prevention Science. 23, 24-35.
2020
Long-term Impacts and Benefit–Cost Analysis of the Communities That Care Prevention System at Age 23, 12 Years After Baseline
Injury Prevention. 26(5), 463-470.
2019
Community intervention to prevent adolescent health behavior problems: Evaluation of Communities That Care in Australia.
Health Psychology. 38(6), 536-544.
2014
Effects of the Communities That Care system on cross-sectional profiles of adolescent substance use and delinquency.
American Journal of Preventative Medicine. 47(2), 188-197.
Youth problem behaviors 8 years after implementing the Communities That Care prevention system: A community-randomized trial
JAMA Pediatrics. 168(2), 122-129.
Variation in the sustained effects of the Communities That Care prevention system on adolescent smoking, delinquency, and violence
Prevention Science. 15, 138-145.
2012
Cost benefit analysis of Communities That Care outcomes at eighth grade
Prevention Science. 13, 150-161.
Sustained decreases in risk exposure and youth problem behaviors after installation of the Communities That Care prevention system in a randomized trial
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. 166(2), 141-148
2010
Effects of the Communities That Care model in Pennsylvania on change in adolescent risk and problem behaviors
Prevention Science. 11, 163-171.
2009
Results of a type 2 translational research trial to prevent adolescent drug use and delinquency: A test of Communities That Care
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. 163(9), 789-798.
2008
Installing the Communities That Care prevention system: implementation progress and fidelity in a randomized controlled trial
Journal of Community Psychology. 31(3), 316-332.
Bridging science to practice: achieving prevention program implementation fidelity in the Community Youth Development Study
American Journal of Community Psychology. 41, 235-249.
2007
Communities That Care - Review of implementation in three Australian communities (2007)
2025
Prevention science in Australia, in Drug Abuse Prevention: A Global Approach
2013
A clustered randomised trial examining the effect of social marketing and community mobilisation on the age of uptake and levels of alcohol consumption by Australian adolescents: Study protocol
BMJ Open. 3(1), 1-8
2024
Australian Communities That Care (CTC) intervention: Benefit-cost analysis of a community-based youth alcohol prevention initiative
PLoS One. 19(11), e0314153.
Using effective community coalitions to prevent mental and behavioral disorders on a national scale
Mental Health & Prevention. (33), 200322.
Prevention Science. 23, 36-47.
A component evaluation of a randomised control community intervention to reduce adolescent alcohol use in Australia
2021
Evaluation of community coalition training effects on youth hospital-admitted injury incidence in Victoria, Australia: 2001–2017.
Prevention Science. 22, 452-463.