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ADAPTATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A SCIENCE‐BASED PREVENTION SYSTEM IN COLOMBIA: CHALLENGES AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Author(s) -
PérezGómez Augusto,
MejíaTrujillo Juliana,
Brown Eric C.,
Eisenberg Nicole
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.585
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1520-6629
pISSN - 0090-4392
DOI - 10.1002/jcop.21781
Subject(s) - latin americans , government (linguistics) , adaptation (eye) , political science , process (computing) , corporation , public relations , psychology , computer science , philosophy , linguistics , neuroscience , law , operating system
During the last 2 years, the Colombian government and the Nuevos Rumbos Corporation have been implementing an adapted version of the Communities That Care (CTC) prevention system, called Comunidades Que se Cuidan (CQC) in Spanish, for use in Colombia. This brief report presents the process of implementing CQC and identifies some of the main challenges and achievements of implementing the system in 8 communities in Colombia. Preliminary results of a pilot study of CQC implementation in Colombia show that prevention system development, including a focus on measuring community risk and protection, can be established successfully in Latin American communities despite a lack of rigorously tested prevention programs and strategies. Moreover, mobilizing community coalitions toward science‐based prevention, with a focus on examining local risk and protective factor data, can spur development and evaluation of prevention efforts in Latin America.