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Blueprints for Violence Prevention Go to Website Blueprints for Violence Prevention identifies outstanding violence and drug prevention programs that meet a high scientific standard of effectiveness. |
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U.S. Surgeon General Go to Website The surgeon general serves as "America's doctor" by providing the best scientific information available on how Americans can improve their health and reduce the risk of illness and injury. |
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Washington State Institute for Public Policy Go to Website The institute conducts nonpartisan research using its own policy analysts and economists, specialists from universities and consultants to determine the cost benefit of treatment models. |
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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMMS) Go to Website A United States Department of Health and Human Services agency, CMMS administers Medicare and helps states run Medicaid. Because CMMS has endorsed MST, some states can use Medicaid funding to partially pay for the program. |
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Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy Go to Website The coalition identifies social interventions that produce sizable and long-term benefits. Its purpose is to give policymakers and practitioners the information needed to distinguish the few interventions that have rigorous, scientific evidence to back them up. |
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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Go to Website Part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, SAMHSA seeks to lessen the negative impact of substance abuse and mental illness throughout the U.S. |
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President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health Go to Website The commission studies public and private mental-health services to find effective treatments, services and technologies. |
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Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) Additional Information: CrimeSolutions is a searchable online registry developed and maintained by the Office of Justice Programs which uses rigorous research to inform practitioners and policy makers about what works in criminal justice, juvenile justice, and crime victim services. |
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National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Go to Website The institute encourages scientific research on drug abuse and works to disseminate treatments that work. |
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Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (IOM) Go to Website A nonprofit organization, IOM works independently of the government in giving unbiased advice on medicine and health so that informed decisions can be made toward improving health in the U.S. |
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Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) Go to Website A United Kingdom organization, IPPR researches and analyzes policy on wide-ranging topics from global warming to juveniles engaged in criminal activity. |
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Office of Justice Programs (OJP) Go to Website OJP, part of the U.S. Justice Departments, helps state and local justice systems develop strategies for dealing with crime. |
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Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) Go to Website CSAP, a part of SAMHSA, is charged with providing national leadership in the fight against substance abuse. MST is listed in CSAP’s National Registry of Effective Prevention Programs and was a recipient of a 2000 Exemplary Substance Abuse Prevention Program award. |
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Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) Go to Website An agency under the umbrella of SAMHSA, CSAT’s mission is to increase the accessibility and improve the quality of community-based, drug-and-alcohol treatment services. |
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National Institutes of Health (NIH) Go to Website NIH is the federal agency that conducts and gives backing to biomedical and health-related research. The agency has found MST effective, saying “program evaluations have demonstrated reductions in long-term rates of rearrest, violent crime arrest, and out-of-home placements.” |
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National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) Go to Website NAMI is a nonprofit, grassroots advocacy organization that works to improve the lives of people with mental illness. It has lauded MST for being “successful in reducing costly out-of-home placements and criminal recidivism.” |
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Mental Health America (MHA) Go to Website MHA, formerly called the National Mental Health Association, is a national, nonprofit organization that promotes better mental health and helps those with mental illness. In 2004, MHA wrote, “Research indicates that Multisystemic Therapy (MST) is one of the best available treatment approaches for youth who have mental health treatment needs and who are involved in the juvenile justice system.” |
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National Academy for Parenting Research (NAPR) Go to Website The National Academy for Parenting Research (NAPR) has an internationally recognized research program to help bring real change to the way practitioners work with parents. The NAPR has created a searchable online database of programs available in England called the Commissioning Toolkit. The toolkit allows policy makers to make informed choices about how suitable a particular program may be in meeting the needs of specific parents. It also clearly shows high-quality interventions which have been proven to work.
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