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28 School- and Community-Based Preventive Interventions During Adolescence: Preventing Delinquency Through Science-Guided Collective Action

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This chapter reviews tested and effective school- and community-based prevention programs that target risk and protective factors to prevent the development of violence, delinquency, and substance use among youth. Further, we introduce the collective impact approach that calls for a wider collaboration across multiple environmental domains and service sectors to coordinate prevention efforts to achieve community wide change. Throughout the chapter, we highlight two prevention strategies, PROSPER and Communities That Care (CTC), that engage and empower communities to reach schools and communities as well as individuals and families for greater impact. Well-controlled trials of CTC and PROSPER have shown that a collective impact approach can achieve better outcomes for young people community wide.

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    B. K. Elizabeth Kim M.S.W., Amanda B. Gilman M.S.W. & J. David Hawkins Ph.D.

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Kim, B.K.E., Gilman, A.B., Hawkins, J.D. (2015). 28 School- and Community-Based Preventive Interventions During Adolescence: Preventing Delinquency Through Science-Guided Collective Action. In: Morizot, J., Kazemian, L. (eds) The Development of Criminal and Antisocial Behavior. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08720-7_28

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