Creating a positive, healthy, and caring community for youth and families
CTC engages and empowers youth, families, and the community, through prevention and education, to make healthy choices.
What is Communities That Care?
What is Communities That Care?
What is Communities That Care?
Communities That Care (CTC) brings together local residents and community leaders to serve on a CTC Prevention Board.
The CTC Prevention Board utilizes a prevention science approach that targets risk factors, which may increase the likelihood of problem behaviors developing, as well as protective factors that can shield youth from problem
Communities That Care (CTC) brings together local residents and community leaders to serve on a CTC Prevention Board.
The CTC Prevention Board utilizes a prevention science approach that targets risk factors, which may increase the likelihood of problem behaviors developing, as well as protective factors that can shield youth from problems.
Both the risk and protective factors are identified in order to implement a comprehensive plan that addresses and resolves the potential root causes of problems prior to their occurring, thus creating far-reaching and long-lasting solutions.
What are Risk Factors?
What is Communities That Care?
What is Communities That Care?
Risk factors are those conditions that increase the likelihood that a child will develop one or more behavior problems in adolescence.
CTC attempts to identify and reduce the risks present in the community, home, and school.
What are Protective Factors?
What is Communities That Care?
What are Protective Factors?
Protective factors are aspects of adolescents’ lives that counter risk factors or provide a buffer against them.
A key strategy of CTC is to enhance protective factors that promote positive behavior, well-being, and personal success.
Our Leadership
CTC Community Mobilizer
CTC Youth Subcommittee Coordinator
CTC Youth Subcommittee Coordinator
Wendy Rosenfeld