The CTC model has identified 19 risk factors that increase the likelihood that young people will become involved in substance abuse or other problem behaviors. These risk factors exist in the four areas of a child’s life, and one of them is home.

CTC helps parents to identify prevention strategies that best match the needs of their unique community. To be effective in reducing adolescent health and behavior problems, prevention efforts must be comprehensive and reduce risk in all four social areas: home, school, peers, and the community in which the children live. For example, no matter how excellent a school substance abuse curriculum might be it is not likely to be effective in changing adolescent substance abuse by itself. More comprehensive strategies that affect all areas of a child’s life are necessary for prevention efforts to truly be effective. This means that in addition to good school-based curriculums, changes need to be made at home.

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