Multisystemic Therapy - MST Network Partners, Evidence-Based Treatment Providers from MST Services

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To meet the growing demand for MST, organizations with a strong record of starting and implementing MST programs collaborated with MST Services to become Network Partners.

These locally controlled groups are committed to making sure that the MST treatment model is followed with integrity and without variation so that the best outcomes can be realized. They also play an important role in shaping research on treatment effectiveness, transportability and dissemination. MST Network Partner organizations employ staffs that are fully trained in program development. MST Services maintains an ongoing working relationship with each partner that focuses on staff development, quality improvement and quality assurance.

Today, licensed MST Network Partners are:

Adelphoi Village Inc. Adelphoi Village is a private, not-for-profit agency that provides help for 800 youths and their families throughout Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia and Maryland. MST is part of its comprehensive, community-based services. Email: Beth Kuhns Go to Website (Latrobe, PA)		Advanced Behavioral Health Inc. (ABH) ABH manages mental-health and substance-abuse services in the state of Connecticut. It provides customized technology so that programs perform efficiently. And it participates in and distributes research representing “best practices” in the field, which includes MST. Email: Mike Williams Go to Website (Middletown, CT)

Catholic Charities of Buffalo, New York Catholic Charities of Buffalo is a comprehensive human-services provider in Western New York. It offers counseling services for all ages, basic emergency assistance and referrals, child and adult mental-health services, chemical-dependency treatment, educational and vocational services. Email: Marie Andersen-Strait Go to Website (Buffalo, NY)		The Center for Effective Interventions (CEI) Part of the Human Services Department at Metropolitan State College of Denver, CEI helps communities and agencies select practice models that will create sustainable change for youths and families. Part of its mission is to expand the use of MST throughout Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Arizona and Oklahoma. Email: David Bernstein Go to Website (Denver, CO)

Center for Innovative Practices (CIP) Institute for the Study and Prevention of Violence Case Western Reserve University CIP was created to get more evidence-based practices, especially MST, used in mental-health systems. CIP developed a network of MST teams across Ohio, which consistently achieves fidelity and significant outcomes. Email: Patrick Kanary Go to Website (Kent, OH)		The Children's Village Since 1851, the mission of The Children's Village has been to work with families so that society’s most vulnerable children can become educationally proficient, economically productive and socially responsible members of their communities. It uses MST to keep troubled teenagers at home by providing intensive support to families. Email: Paul Schiller Go to Website (Dobbs Ferry, NY)

Community Solutions Inc. Community Solutions Inc. is a nonprofit organization that promotes self-reliance, responsibility and accountability for at-risk and disadvantaged youths and adults. Their portfolio of services, which includes MST, works with hundreds of young people and adults referred through contracts with all branches of the state and federal juvenile and adult criminal-justice systems, as well as social-service agencies. Email: Richard M. Lutz Go to Website (Windsor, CT)		De Viersprong, Forensic Youth Psychiatry Since 2005, MST-the Netherlands has been offering MST for the treatment of Dutch adolescents exhibiting violent and criminal behavior. The MST program has been recognized by the FGZP (Federation of Gezondheidspsychologen), the NVRG (Dutch Association for Relational and Family Therapy) and the VGCT (Association of Behavioural Therapy and Cognitive Therapy). Email: Wim van Geffen Go to Website (The Netherlands)

Evidence Based Services Inc. Evidence Based Services' mission is to disseminate evidence-based treatments, such as MST-CM (MST-Contingency Management), for adolescent substance abusers and Multisystemic-Health Care for youth with chronic health problems (e.g., diabetes, obesity and asthma). Email: Jeff Randall (Charleston, SC)		Kinark Child and Family Services Kinark Child and Family Services provides intensive treatment and support to young people with serious mental-health issues who get in trouble with the law. Kinark runs intensive programs, such as MST, that treat the youth at home and in the community. Email: Jane Routhwaite Go to Website (Ontario, Canada)

Hawaii Department of Health Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division With its goal to protect and improve the health and environment for all people in Hawaii, the Hawaii Department of Health employs MST as a way to turn adolescents from violent and criminal behavior toward a productive and positive lifestyle. Email: adminhmansfield@pacthawaii.org Go to Website (Hawaii)		Jefferson Parish Human Services Agency The mission of the Jefferson Parish Human Services Authority is to reduce the incidence of mental illness and the crippling effects of substance abuse and developmental disabilities. To achieve that goal, it uses MST. Email: Christine Bonura Go to Website (Metairie, LA)

Liberty Resources Inc. Liberty Resources, a diversified human-service agency, assists youths and families improve their quality of life by providing residential and nonresidential, such as MST, services tailored to meet their particular needs. Email: Carl Coyle Go to Website (Syracuse, NY)		Life Without Barriers Australia In October 2009, Life Without Barriers was granted a license by MST Services to provide quality assurance and training to agencies (both government and nongovernment) in Australia and New Zealand offering MST. Email: Justine Harris Go to Website (NSW, Australia)

Mid-Plains Center for Behavioral Healthcare Services Inc. Mid-Plains Center is a comprehensive health-care agency that networks with community partners to provide mental-health services. It offers MST for families with delinquent/acting-out adolescents who are at risk for being removed from the home. Email: Rick Ferguson Go to Website (Grand Island, NE)		MST Associates MST Associates has taken the lead in consulting and training organizations providing Multisystemic Therapy for Youth with Problem Sexual Behaviors (MST-PSB), which treats chronic and violent juvenile offenders who engage in criminal sexual behavior and their families. Email: Richard Munschy Go to Website (Columbia, MO)

MST Denmark- Center for Innovation and Method Development MST was started in Denmark in 2003, originally as a 3-year project, funded by the Ministry of Social Affairs. MST was the first evidence-based program in Denmark. MST-Denmark is now hosted by the Center for Innovation & Method Development in Aarhus. Email: Randi Nørup Go to Website (Aarhus, Denmark)		South Carolina Department of Mental Health South Carolina Department of Mental Health is dedicated to incorporating programs and practices, such as MST, that have been empirically tested. Email: Louise Johnson Go to Website (Columbia, SC)

Norwegian Centre for the Studies of Conduct Problems and Innovative Practice The center is organized as part of Unirand, owned by the University of Oslo whose aim is to strengthen the knowledge and raise the competence in work with behavioral problems among children. The center shall also stimulate interdisciplinary research on this subject and strengthn the connection between research and practice. Email: Bernadette Christensen Go to Website (Oslo, Norway)		The Division of Public Behavioral Health and Justice Policy (PBHJP) University of Washington PBHJP furnishes high-quality, individualized training and support to organizations seeking to deliver home-based intensive services using the MST model. Email: Joshua Leblang Go to Website (Seattle, WA)

MST-Sverige (MST Sweden) Stockholm’s Social Services Department is host to MST-Sverige and several other evidence-based treatment programs geared toward helping families, youth and children. MST-Sweden became a Network Partner in October 2007 and provides quality-assurance services to teams situated all over the country of Sweden." Email: Charlotte Skawonius Go to Website (Stockholm, Sweden)		University of Maryland Innovations Institute The Innovations Institute was established in 2005 to support efforts to improve child and family outcomes. Innovation now provides training and technical assistance in multiple communities throughout the country. Their mission is to ensure that public and academic institutions, providers, and advocates work together efficiently and effectively to support children, youth, and their families. Email: Michelle Zabel Go to Website (Baltimore, MD)

Youth Villages Youth Villages is committed to helping troubled children and their families find success through a wide-ranging array of programs and services, which includes MST. In 1994, with the development of the Youth Villages Intensive In-Home Services Program, the organization became one of the first in the United States to use MST outside of the clinical trials. Email: Greg Winterburn Go to Website (Memphis, TN)		MST-UK MST-UK is committed to making sure that the Multisystemic Therapy (MST) model is followed with integrity so that the best outcomes can be realized throughout the UK. The national team is staffed by personnel from the Department of Health, the Institute of Psychiatry and the South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLAM). Email: Cathy James Go to Website (United Kingdom)