Kootenai Alliance for Children & Families

Fostering a safe, healthy, drug-free community

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About Communities That Care®

 

The CTC system is based on successful public health models of community action.  It has been designed to guide communities through the five most critical and challenging steps in this process, from community mobilization through outcomes evaluation. 

 

These five steps — or phases — are:

 

1. Getting started — assessment & identification of key individuals & organizations to lead effort;

2. Organizing, introducing, involving;

3. Developing a community profile;

4. Creating a community action plan; and

5. Implementing and evaluating the community action plan

 

The system is inclusive (involves all parts of the community), proactive (targets predictors of problems rather than waiting until the problems occur), and identifies and addresses priority predictors specific to a community to promote positive development before young people become involved in problem behaviors.  It is grounded in rigorous research from a variety of fields, and customized to each individual community.  It takes a systematic approach to:

 

· community building;

· focus on promoting positive youth development and preventing problem behavior; and

· help communities collect the right data, prioritize predictors, match prioritized predictors to tested effective programs/policies/practices, as well as implement and evaluate a community action plan.

 

If you would like to learn even more about the Communities That Care® prevention-planning system, please visit the SAMHSA website at:  www.samhsa.gov.

 

Click here for information on KACF in the CTC process.

Click here for CTC reports, links, and press releases.

Did you know ...??

 

A marijuana joint is sometimes dipped in embalming fluids then PCP is added to it?

COMMUNITIES THAT CARE®