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Sustainability of Community Coalitions: An Evaluation of Communities That Care

Authors: Brendan J. Gomez, Mark T. Greenberg, Mark E. Feinberg

Published in: Prevention Science | Issue 3/2005

Abstract

The relationships between community coalition processes during initial 3-year state seed funding and markers of sustainability post-funding were investigated in 20 Communities That Care (CTC) sites in Pennsylvania. Coalition processes were assessed using interviews with coalition members, ratings from the research team and ratings from state technical consultants. We found members' knowledge of prevention, coalition internal functioning, and fidelity to the CTC model during early coalition functioning predictive of later sustained coalition board activity. Findings suggest domains of early coalition functioning that may be important for understanding and promoting sustainability.

The intervention is described elsewhere (Fienberg et al., 2004).

Description of scale construction for the independent variables can be found elsewhere (Fienberg et al., 2004). The technical report can be obtained from the second author at mxg47@psu.edu.

Scale level analysis indicate that members' knowledge in selecting empirically based prevention programs is correlated with continuing board activity (r = .65; p < .01). However, a lack of knowledge in identifying risk factors for problem behaviors does not show significant correlation with continuing board activity.

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Title: Sustainability of Community Coalitions: An Evaluation of Communities That Care
Authors: Brendan J. Gomez
Mark T. Greenberg
Mark E. Feinberg
Publication date: 01-09-2005
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Prevention Science / Issue 3/2005
Print ISSN: 1389-4986
Electronic ISSN: 1573-6695
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-005-0003-4

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