The population of Tooele puts on an impressive flagship display of Communities that Care – faithful to the last detail.

Solid evidence base, inspirational trainers, excellent manuals and materials – it all makes me want know more about what happens when Communities that Care doesn’t work?

Somewhere in mid-Atlantic, I imagine what it will be like to stop being a trainer in the Dartington Common Language method, and, for a change, to be on the receiving end of another, older, well respected operating system: Communities That Care.

Inside an ordinary building in a business park in Washington State, four parents are taking part in a program for substance abusing parents, designed and proved effective by the Social Development Research Group.

We arrive safely in Seattle: a laptop, keys, a handbag and $200 dollars already lost and found.