ArticleJournal of experimental criminology2015
Benefit-Cost Analysis of a Randomized Evaluation of Communities That Care: Monetizing Intervention Effects on the Initiation of Delinquency and Substance Use Through Grade 12.
Article in Journal of experimental criminology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01088542 (The Interplay of Social, Normative, and Legal Marijuana Environments and Marijuana and ATOD Use From Late Childhood to Young Adulthood), which is not on this map. Cited by 20 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The Interplay of Social, Normative, and Legal Marijuana Environments and Marijuana and ATOD Use From Late Childhood to Young Adulthood
Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 52 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Cost of implementing evidence-based practices to reduce opioid overdose fatalities in New York State communities.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2025Trial
- Long-term Impacts and Benefit-Cost Analysis of the Communities That Care Prevention System at Age 23, 12 Years After Baseline.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2021Trial
- A Cluster-Randomized Trial of Getting To Outcomes' Impact on Sexual Health Outcomes in Community-Based Settings.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2018Trial
- Trial protocol: a clustered, randomised, longitudinal, type 2 translational trial of alcohol consumption and alcohol-related harm among adolescents in Australia.BMC public health · 2018Trial
- Effects of Communities That Care on Males' and Females' Drug Use and Delinquency 9 Years After Baseline in a Community-Randomized Trial.American journal of community psychology · 2015Trial
- Electronic and Conventional Cigarette Use and Academic Achievement Among Predominantly Low-Income Black High School Students.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Economic evaluation of evidence-based strategies to reduce unhealthy alcohol use: a resource allocation guide.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Kindergarten conduct problems are associated with monetized outcomes in adolescence and adulthood.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2024Article
- [Evidence-based prevention for child and adolescent mental health: the "Communities That Care" (CTC) approach for Germany].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2023Review
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- Costs and benefits of cooperative learning as a universal school-based approach to adolescent substance use prevention.Journal of community psychology · 2023Article
- Parent-focused prevention of adolescent health risk behavior: Study protocol for a multisite cluster-randomized trial implemented in pediatric primary care.Contemporary clinical trials · 2022Article
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- Health economic design for cost, cost-effectiveness and simulation analyses in the HEALing Communities Study.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2020Article
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- Social Determinants of Mental Health: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go.Current psychiatry reports · 2018Review
- Economic Evaluation of the Juvenile Drug Court/Reclaiming Futures (JDC/RF) Model.The journal of behavioral health services & research · 2018Article
- Which aspects of coalition functioning are key at different stages of coalition development? A qualitative comparative analysis.Implementation research and practiceArticle
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Abstract
objectiveTo determine whether the Communities That Care (CTC) prevention system is a cost-beneficial intervention.
methodsData were from a longitudinal panel of 4,407 youth participating in a randomized controlled trial including 24 towns in 7 states, matched in pairs within state and randomly assigned to condition. Significant differences favoring intervention youth in sustained abstinence from delinquency, alcohol use, and tobacco use through Grade 12 were monetized and compared to economic investment in CTC.
resultsCTC was estimated to produce $4,477 in benefits per youth (discounted 2011 dollars). It cost $556 per youth to implement CTC for 5 years. The net present benefit was $3,920. The benefit-cost ratio was $8.22 per dollar invested. The internal rate of return was 21%. Risk that investment would exceed benefits was minimal. Investment was expected to be recouped within 9 years. Sensitivity analyses in which effects were halved yielded positive cost-beneficial results.
conclusionsCTC is a cost-beneficial, community-based approach to preventing initiation of delinquency, alcohol use, and tobacco use. CTC is estimated to generate economic benefits that exceed implementation costs when disseminated with fidelity in communities.
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