Youth-Community Partnerships for Adolescent Alcohol Prevention

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Youth-Community Partnerships for Adolescent Alcohol Prevention: “We Can’t Do It Alone”

   • Andrea Romero

   Pages 1-17

3. Community Readiness Stages of Change to Achieve Community Transformational Resilience

   • Andrea Romero, Payal Anand, Josefina Ahumada, Sofia Blue, Gloria Hamelitz-Lopez, Michele Orduña et al.

   Pages 19-44

4. Integrating Research into Prevention Strategies Using Participatory Action Research

   • Andrea Romero, Juvenal Caporale, Robby Harris, Elisa Meza, Joel Muraco, Jesi Post

   Pages 45-62

5. After-school Youth Substance Use Prevention to Develop Youth Leadership Capacity: South Tucson Prevention Coalition Phase 1

   • Juvenal Caporale, Andrea Romero, Ana Fonseca, Luis Perales, Patty Valera

   Pages 63-83

6. Breaking Down Silos Between Community-Based Organizations: Coalition Development

   • Jesi Post, Gloria Hamelitz-Lopez, Kimberly Sierra-Cajas, Andrea Romero

   Pages 85-105

7. Adult Perspectives on Nurturing Youth Leadership and Coalition Participation

   • Robby Harris, Jesi Post, Jaime Arrieta, Gloria Hamelitz-Lopez

   Pages 107-123

8. Youth Perspectives on Youth Power As the Source of Community Development

   • Joel A. Muraco, Elisa Meza, Oscar Ceseña, Alejandro Gallego, Michal Urrea

   Pages 125-143

9. Raising Community Awareness of Alcohol Norms Through Community Events and Media Campaigns: South Tucson Prevention Coalition Phase 2

   • Andrea Romero, Michele Orduña, Gloria Hamelitz-Lopez, Juan “Johnny” Quevedo, Maricruz Romero-Ruiz

   Pages 145-171

10. Community–University Collaboration to Examine and Disseminate Local Research on Underage Drinking

    • Andrea Romero, Payal Anand, Ana Fonseca

    Pages 173-209

11. Preventing New Liquor Licenses Through Youth–Community Participatory Action Research

    • Andrea Romero, Elisa Meza, Josefina Ahumada, Oscar Ceseña, Michele Orduña, Juan “Johnny” Quevedo et al.

    Pages 211-236

12. Coalition as Conclusion: Building a Functioning Coalition

    • Andrea Romero, Juvenal Caporale, Elisa Meza, Robby Harris, Josefina Ahumada, Jaime Arrieta et al.

    Pages 237-256

13. Community Transformational Resilience for Adolescent Alcohol Prevention

    • Andrea Romero, Elisa Meza, Josefina Ahumada, Michele Orduña, Juan “Johnny” Quevedo

    Pages 257-270

14. Back Matter

    Pages 271-273

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This forward-thinking reference spotlights an expansive and inclusive community model for youth alcohol prevention as opposed to traditional individual and school-based group approaches. Focusing on a long-term intervention in a Southwestern border town, it documents the development of critical consciousness in an affected community, and emphasizes young people as crucial drivers of change in their environment. The book’s Community Readiness Model provides vital context for successful coalition building between youth, families, and community entities (e.g., schools, civic leaders, police) in reducing alcohol risk factors and promoting healthier choices. Given the severity and prevalence of youth alcohol use, this case study offers a viable blueprint for large-scale engagement in prevention.

 

Among the featured topics:

 

• Integrating research into prevention strategies using participatory action research.
• Breaking down silos between community-based organizations: coalition development.
• Adult perspectives on nurturing youth leadership and coalition participation.
• Youth perspectives on youth power as the source of community dev

elopment.

Coalition as conclusion: tips on creating a functioning coalition.

Community transformational resilience for adolescent alcohol prevention.

 

Youth-Community Partnerships for Adolescent Alcohol Prevention is both practical and inspiring reading for researchers and other mental health professionals in psychology, social work, and public health who work with adolescents, communities, and civic engagement.

• Adolescent Substance Use
• Alcohol Abuse Prevention
• Alcohol Abuse in Hispanic Communities
• Community-based Participatory Action Research
• Health Disparities for Latino Adolescents
• Research on Alcohol Use Prevention
• Youth-Community Action

“This book describes a long-term intervention program for youth alcohol prevention in a southwestern border town and discusses a community readiness model, which is a collaboration between family and community. The book met the editor's objectives. … It provides prevention strategies and gives reasons why the program was successful for eight years. Readers can use different parts of this program to impact their own communities.” (Gary B. Kaniuk, Doody’s Book Reviews, August, 2016)

• Tucson, USA

  Andrea J. Romero

Dr. Andrea Romero is Fitch Nesbitt Associate Professor at the University of Arizona in Family Studies & Human Development and Mexican American Studies. She has over 15 years of adolescent health promotion research and publishing experience. She has written several peer-reviewed scientific journal articles that provide empirical evidence on the contextual factors that contribute to risk and resilience among ethnic minority adolescents. She has been conducting the community based participatory research on adolescent alcohol prevention for over 12 years in partnership with local community partners and youth.

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