About CTC
- Communities That Care Introduction (PDF 60 KB)
- Communities That Care Community Effectiveness Evidence (PDF 36 KB)
Communities That Care Ltd is a not for profit training and consulting company formed through a collaboration between the Royal Children's Hospital and the Rotary Club of Melbourne with the objective of implementing, evaluating and disseminating strategies for building community prevention capacity in Australia. The company vision is to promote the healthy development of children and young people through long term community planning to prevent health and social problems.
How do you and your community benefit? The Communities That Care process provides a framework for communities to make measurable improvements in important areas of community life. For example by reducing levels of violence and substance abuse local people enjoy safer communities and more assurance that their children and families can grow to their full potential. Many communities have used the framework to increase the local involvement of young people in community life.
The Communities That Care process has been rigorously evaluated and shown to make statistically significant improvements to the healthy development of children and young people.
- How to get CTC started in your community
- The team
- The Board
- Funding & Partners
- Australian "pioneer" communities
How to get CTC started in your community
Introducing the Communities That Care planning process into your community typically begins with one person who acts as a "champion". Communities That Care resources includes a book called "Are you ready" that can be used to explain the concept of community prevention to people in your community. More info...
The team
- Professor John Toumbourou, PhD, is the Chief Executive Officer for Communities That Care Ltd (Australia).
- Email: john.toumbourou@deakin.edu.au
- Mobile: 0400 502 938
Secretary
- Mrs Jennifer Nazareth, Resource Manager, Dept of Emergency Medicine, Royal Children's Hospital.
- Email: jennifer.nazareth@rch.org.au
- Tel: 9345 5312
The Board
Mr John Clifford Melbourne, BE Dip Metallurgy, MBA
Ex-President, Rotary Club of Melbourne. Retired Company Director
Chairperson & Director, Communities That Care
Director since 1999.
Mr Brian James Mallon
Executive Director, Royal Children's Hospital Foundation
Director, Communities That Care
Director since 2009.
Ms Barbara Minuzzo PGDipHealthProm
Safety Centre Senior Project Coordinator, Family Services, Royal Children's Hospital
Director, Communities That Care
Director since 2008.
Professor George Christopher Patton, MBBS, MD FRANZCP MRCPsych
Director of Adolescent Research, Centre for Adolescent Health, Royal Children's Hospital
VicHealth Professor of Adolescent Health Research, Dept of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne
Director & Secretary, Communities That Care
Director since 1999
Mr William Robert Pickett, BE (Hons), MBA, GAICD, CMC
Management Consultant
Director, Communities That Care
Director since 1999
Funding & Partners
Communities That Care has been generously supported by:
- The Baker Foundation
- The Jack Brockhoff Foundation
- Centre for Adolescent Health
- The Myer Foundation
- Perpetual Trustees
- Rotary Club of Melbourne
- Royal Children's Hospital
- Victorian Health Promotion Foundation
Our research partners include:
- The Centre for Adolescent Health (part of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute) located at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital
- Deakin University
- The Social Development Research Group at the University of Washington.
Australian "pioneer" communities
Three Pioneer Communities have successfully implemented Communities That Care in Australia
- Communities That Care Myrtleford
Communities That Care Myrtleford is the most recent group to register their intention to complete the Communities That Care process. The group have formed a strong local coalition and are in the process of planning prevention activities. In 2012 they are planning to disseminate social marketing materials to prevent alcohol misuse.
Contact Lisa Neville: Communities That Care Myrtleford Project Coordinator (03) 5755 0132
- Communities That Care Mornington Peninsula
Communities That Care Mornington Peninsula involves a strong partnership with local government. This group have implemented Communities That Care Local Area Groups in all sections of this large municipality and an evaluation showed positive progress. A new planning cycle is currently in process.
Contact Karl Kasbach - Youth Strategic Planning Coordinator.
- Strengthening Generations Ballarat
Prevention planning reports and many prevention activities were completed with the Wendouree and Delacombe/ Sebastopol communities supported by the Strengthening Generations team and City of Ballarat. Surveys were repeated to assist evaluation and new planning work is currently in process.
Contact Jodie Downey - Project Officer. P 03 5320 5593
- Investing In Our Youth Greater Bunbury South West of Western Australia
The first fully operational Communities That Care site in Australia has been led by the Investing in Our Youth organisation. Their website provides access to a variety of valuable information.
Other countries that are implementing Communities That Care around the world
- Communities That Care in the USA
Communities That Care in the USA is now based at the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) in the office of the United States Government's Substance and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
- Communities That Care Pennsylvania
- The Community Youth Development Study
The Community Youth Development Study is a randomised trial of Communities That Care being completed by the Social Development Research Group at the University of Washington in Seattle.
- Communities That Care in the UK
Communities That Care in the UK is based at the Catch 22 crime prevention organisation
- Communities That Care in the Netherlands
Communities That Care in the Netherlands is based at the Verwey-Jonker Institute, Utrecht
