Adaptation and Implementation of a Science-Based Prevention System in Colombia: Challenges and Achievements.
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, calledComunidades 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 eight 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.
Nuevos Rumbos Corporation; Bogotá, Colombia.
Augusto
A
Pérez-Gómez
Nuevos Rumbos Corporation; Bogotá, Colombia.
Juliana
J
Mejía-Trujillo
Division of Prevention Science and Community Health, Department of Public Health Sciences, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami.
Eric C
EC
Brown
Social Development Research Group, School of Social Work University of Washington.
Nicole
N
Eisenberg
Communities That Care; Comunidades Que se Cuidan; coalitions; drug abuse; prevention systems