title: Summary comments: multi-level community based culturally situated interventions.
abstract: In this critical summary the editors summarize main themes that cut across special issue papers including challenges in introducing interventions into communities theorized as dynamic systems, strengths and problems presented by multilevel interventions in single communities, the value of community based culturally situated preventive interventions, and some solutions to evaluation of interventions in complex social settings.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA. Trickett@uic.edu
authors.forename: Edison J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Trickett
authors.forename: Jean J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Schensul