Research
Five Town Communities That Care is committed to making data-based decisions, including decions about the most effective programs to spend our community’s prevention dollars on. Below are links to sites with more information about the research and theory behind our programs and practices, as well as to information about the problem behaviors we seek to prevent.
- The Communities That Care system. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, which has endorsed the Communities That Care system as an effective way to promote healthy youth development, has a resource site with lots of information about CTC.
- STAR
- Math Mentors and Literacy Mentors
- Guiding Good Choices
- Life Skills Training
For More Information…
- Youth Suicide
(Maine Youth Suicide Prevention Program) - Youth Suicide
(National Center for Injury Prevention & Control) - Inhalant Abuse
(New England Inhalant Abuse Prevention) - Underage Drinking
(Natl Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism) - Underage Drinking
(StopAlcoholAbuse.Gov) - Youth Violence
(Natl Youth Violence Prevention) - Youth Substance Abuse
(Natl Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Info) - Juvenile Delinquency Prevention
(Juvenile Justice & Deliquency Prevention) - Teen Pregnancy
(Medline Plus) - School Drop Out
(School Dropout Prevention Program – ED.gov)