Community-Coalition On Drug Awareness
Educating Communities Through
Awareness-Acknowledgement-Action
The Communities That Care process creates awareness of the risk and protective factors impacting on the healthy development of children and adolescents.
Throughout the process, communities target their prevention efforts to reduce risk factors and strengthen protective factors in the four domains of community, family, school and peer/individual.
Risk factors used in CTC have been shown in multiple longitudinal studies to be reliable predictors of at least one of six adolescent health and social problems – alcohol and drug abuse, antisocial behaviour, youth violence, school failure, anxiety/depression and teenage pregnancy.
Protective factors buffer against risk in otherwise adverse circumstances by either reducing the impact of risk, or changing the way a child or young person responds to it.
