Community-based Programs

This guide defines indicators of progress and program/system change and can be useful for applying parent, family, and community engagement practices beyond Head Start as well.

This toolkit provides facts, approaches, strategies, and messages that coalitions can use to take action to prevent prescription drug use in their communities.

This bulletin presents research on why youth join gangs and how a community can build gang prevention and intervention services.

This 23-minute video provides an overview of the OJJDP’s model to assess and address communities’ gang problems.

This brief provides insights from a recent Child Trends Roundtable with leaders of community initiatives that incorporate evidence-based and evidence-informed programs.

This study examines 11 comprehensive community initiatives to better understand how these complex efforts can reach the scope, scale, and sustainability needed to achieve lasting community change.

This Web site offers Federally-developed interactive tools and other resources to help community organizations and partnerships plan and implement effective youth programs.

This toolkit is designed to help grassroots community and faith-based treatment and recovery providers plan for long-term survival.

The reports explores the concept of community schools; the state of community schools, guiding frameworks for designing interventions at a community school; the process of school, family, and commu