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**Notes:**
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## 	The goal of the Community Assessment Training (CAT) is to build the Community Board’s capacity to conduct a community risk and protective factor assessment.

- 	The goal of the Community Assessment Training (CAT) is to build the Community Board’s capacity to conduct a community risk and protective factor assessment.

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## Describe the steps in the community assessment process.

- Explain the purpose and uses of the community assessment.
- Develop and carry out a plan for completing the assessment.
- Communicate the assessment results to the Community Board and Key Leaders.

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## Wrap-up and evaluations

- Overview

- Using the *Communities That **Care Youth Survey* Report

- Collecting Archival Data

- Identifying Priorities

- Preparing a Community Assessment Report

- Next Steps

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## Review of membership of Key Leaders and Community Board

- Review of membership of Key Leaders and Community Board
- Activities since the Community Board Orientation
- Key accomplishments to date
*Communities That Care* *Youth Survey* progress
- Issues, barriers and solutions

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## Public health approach

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- Demonstrated predictors:
- Risk factors
- Protective factors organized by the Social Development Strategy (SDS)

- Tested, effective programs

## Exist in all areas of influence

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- Predict multiple problem behaviors

- Exist throughout development

- Have consistent effects across races and cultures

- Can be buffered by protective factors.

## 	Media portrayals of violence

- 	Media portrayals of violence

- 	Availability of drugs

- 	Availability of firearms

- 	Community laws and norms favorable toward drug use, firearms and crime

- 	Transitions and mobility

- 	Low neighborhood attachment and community disorganization

- 	Extreme economic deprivation

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## Family history of the problem behavior

- Family history of the problem behavior

- Family management problems

- Family conflict

- Favorable parental attitudes and involvement in the problem behavior

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## Academic failure beginning in late elementary school

- Academic failure beginning in late elementary school

- Lack of commitment to school

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## Early and persistent antisocial behavior

- Early and persistent antisocial behavior

- Constitutional factors

- Rebelliousness

- Friends who engage in the problem behavior

- Favorable attitudes toward the problem behavior

- Early initiation of the problem behavior

- Gang involvement

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## Bonding

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**The goal...**
**Healthy behaviors**
- for all children and youth

**Start with...**
**Healthy beliefs & clear standards**
- ...in families, schools, communities and peer groups

**Build...**
**Bonding**
**• ****Attachment   • Commitment**
- ...to families, schools, communities and peer groups

**And by nurturing...**
**Individual characteristics**

-         **By providing...               By providing...****              ****By providing...**
**   ****Opportunities        Skills**          **Recognition**
- ...in families, schools, communities and peer groups

## Sort the candy.

- Record your findings.
- Report the results.

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## Community Assessment Report

*	**Communities **That Care** **Youth Survey*

- Archival Data

- Prioritization:
- • Geographic Areas/Populations
- • Risk and Protective Factors

- 	2-5 Priority Risk & Protective Factors

- Community Strengths

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## Youth problem behaviors

- Risk factors
- Protective factors

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## Communities That Care Youth Survey

*Communities **That Care* *Youth Survey*

- Archival data

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## Community Assessment Report.

- Community Assessment Report.

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- Priorities for prevention planning.

## Create a community-specific profile

- Create a community-specific profile

- Develop a focus for prevention planning

- Mobilize the community

- Address misconceptions.

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## Establish baseline and expected outcomes for prevention planning process

- Establish baseline and expected outcomes for prevention planning process

- Help select effective prevention programs

- Evaluate progress

- Support fund development.

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