ADAPTATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A SCIENCE-BASED PREVENTION SYSTEM IN COLOMBIA: CHALLENGES AND ACHIEVEMENTS

During the last 2 years, the Colombian government and the Nuevos Rumbos Corporation have been implementing an adapted version of the Communities That Care (CTC) prevention system, called Comunidades Que se Cuidan (CQC) in Spanish, for use in Colombia. This brief report presents the process of implem...

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Published in:Journal of community psychology 2016-05, Vol.44 (4), p.538-545
Main Authors: Pérez-Gómez, Augusto, Mejía-Trujillo, Juliana, Brown, Eric C., Eisenberg, Nicole
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation
Prevention
Science
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Summary:During the last 2 years, the Colombian government and the Nuevos Rumbos Corporation have been implementing an adapted version of the Communities That Care (CTC) prevention system, called Comunidades Que se Cuidan (CQC) in Spanish, for use in Colombia. This brief report presents the process of implementing CQC and identifies some of the main challenges and achievements of implementing the system in 8 communities in Colombia. Preliminary results of a pilot study of CQC implementation in Colombia show that prevention system development, including a focus on measuring community risk and protection, can be established successfully in Latin American communities despite a lack of rigorously tested prevention programs and strategies. Moreover, mobilizing community coalitions toward science‐based prevention, with a focus on examining local risk and protective factor data, can spur development and evaluation of prevention efforts in Latin America.
ISSN:0090-4392
1520-6629
DOI:10.1002/jcop.21781