Communities That Care Community Planning System

Welcome to Communities That Care

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has added Communities that Care (CTC) as a part of the CSAP toolkit.

SAMHSA has full copy rights to these materials and invite interested entities to download them from our website http://preventionplatform.samhsa.gov and use them in implementing your programs. Your State may provide you with technical assistance and/or training to aid you in this process.

Communities That Care is a system developed by J. David Hawkins and Richard F. Catalano that empowers communities to use advances from prevention science to guide their prevention efforts.

For an orientation to the Communities That Care system, please download Investing in Your Community’s Youth: An Introduction to the Communities That Care System. It provides an overview of the Communities That Care research foundation, implementation phases, and materials.

If you are interested in introducing Communities That Care to your community, please download Tools for Community Leaders: A Guidebook for Getting Started. It will help you define your community, recruit leaders, identify and address community readiness issues and plan next steps.

The CTC Prevention Strategies Guide lists fifty-six tested and effective prevention programs and policies shown to increase protective factors, reduce risk factors and reduce adolescent problem behaviors in well controlled studies. These are the preventive interventions recommended in the Communities That Care system.

The Communities That Care Youth Survey, is a reliable and valid instrument to measure the incidence and prevalence of substance use, delinquency and related problem behaviors and the risk and protective factors that predict those problems in your community.

The remaining documents on this web site are the complete trainers’ and participants’ manuals for the six Communities That Care training events through which Communities That Care is installed in communities. The order in which these training events are conducted is described in Investing in Your Community’s Youth.

If you have questions or would like more information about Communities That Care please contact Patricia B. Getty, Ph.D. at patricia.getty@samhsa.hhs.gov at the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention or your regional Center for the Application of Prevention Technology (CAPT) available through the SAMHSA website at http://www.captus.org/home.cfm.

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Patricia B. Getty, Ph.D.
Acting Branch Chief
Division of Systems Development
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
1 Choke Cherry Road, Room 4-1027
Rockville, MD 20857
Patricia.Getty@samhsa.hhs.gov