Community Mobilization and Readiness: Planning Flaws which Challenge Effective Implementation of ‘Communities that Care’ (CTC) Prevention System (CROSBI ID 280244)
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Podaci o odgovornosti
Bašić, Josipa
engleski
Community Mobilization and Readiness: Planning Flaws which Challenge Effective Implementation of ‘Communities that Care’ (CTC) Prevention System
This article reviews the experience of implementing a community approach to drug use and youth delinquency prevention based on the ‘Communities that Care’ (CTC) system implemented in one Croatian county consisting of 12 communities, 2002 to 2013 (Hawkins, 1999 ; Hawkins & Catalano, 2004). This overview explores selected critical issues which are often not considered in substance use(r) community intervention planning, implementation as well as in associated process and outcome assessments. These issues include, among others, the mobilization process of adequate representation of people ; the involvement of relevant key individual and organizational stakeholders and being aware of the stakeholders’ willingness to participate in the prevention process. In addition, it is important to be aware of the stakeholders’ knowledge and perceptions about the ‘problems’ of drug use and youth delinquency in their communities as well as the characteristics of the targeted population(s). Sometimes there are community members and stakeholders who block needed change and therefore prevention process enablers and ‘bridges’ should be involved in moving prevention programming forward. Another barrier that is often overlooked in prevention planning is community readiness to change and a realistic assessment of available and accessible resources for initiating the planned change(s) and sustaining them. All of these issues have been found to be potentially related to intervention success. At the end of this article, I summarize perspectives from prevention scientists and practitioners and lessons learned from communities’ readiness research and practice in Croatian that has international relevance.
substance abuse, juvenile delinquency, community mobilization and readiness, community prevention, Communities that Care
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Podaci o izdanju
50 (8-9)
2015.
1083-1088
objavljeno
1082-6084
1532-2491
10.3109/10826084.2015.1007655
Povezanost rada
Edukacijsko-rehabilitacijske znanosti, Pedagogija