Prevention: Risk and Protective Factors
Wahkiakum Community Network follows the Communities That Care (CTC) model to provide research-based tools to help mobilize our community to promote the positive development of children and youth and to prevent adolescent problem behaviors that impede positive development including substance abuse, delinquency, teen pregnancy, school dropout, and violence.
The CTC process was developed by David Hawkins, Ph.D. and Richard Catalano, Ph.D. to help communities plan, implement, and evaluate proven-effective prevention programs in four domains: individual, family, school, community. Hawkins and Catalano work has centered on what they call "risk and protective factors" to make changes in problem behaviors.
Wahkiakum Community Network measures Wahkiakum County and Washington State changes in risk and protective factors with the Healthy Youth Survey. This survey is implemented in Wahkiakum and Naselle-Grays River School Districts every biennium. To learn more about the Healthy Youth Survey please visit http://www3.doh.wa.gov/HYS. |
