Section 2: Understanding Risk and Protective Factors: Their Use in Selecting Potential Targets and Promising Strategies for Intervention (Main)

Provides information related to risk and protective factors and their role in identifying community changes. This section explores: a more in-depth understanding of risk and protective factors, when to look at the risk and protective factors for important issues, how to identify the specific risk and protective factors and how these factors will help your organization identify who should most benefit and how to make a difference. Additional tabs provide a checklist, examples, tools and a PowerPoint presentation.