Testing a Community Prevention Focused Model of Coalition Functioning and Sustainability: A Comprehensive Study of Communities That Care in Pennsylvania

Preventing Harmful Substance Use: The Evidence Base for Policy and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 129-142

  Greenberg, Mark T ^a,b   Feinberg, Mark E ^b   Gomez, Brendan J ^c   Osgood, D Wayne ^b  

^a Prevention Research Center   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Pennsylvania State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Communities that care; Delinquency; Pennsylvania; Technical assistance; Teenage pregnancy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889383692     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470713624.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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