Communities that Care Summary Report for Greater Shankill
Extract:
"Since the late 1970s, researchers in a variety of disciplines (for example, criminology,sociology, social work, psychology, community psychology, education) have beenapplying a public health approach to the study of the healthy development of youngpeople. This work has created a field called prevention science, which identifies thefactors that contribute to the healthy development of children and youth (protectivefactors) and the factors that impede that development (risk factors)."



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