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Supporting the implementation, dissemination and evaluation of evidence-based treatment models
The Connecticut Center for Effective Practice’s (CCEP) primary goal and long-range strategy has been to develop a sustainable infrastructure that provides the public service system with training, consultation, staff development and quality management essential to sustain evidence-based practice. Multisystemic Therapy (MST), a nationally recognized and highly effective treatment for juvenile delinquents, was selected for adoption and support by the Center because MST has well demonstrated national and international success with large scale dissemination. Connecticut initially relied on MST Services, Inc. in South Carolina to provide the training, weekly clinical consultation and evaluation to support MST teams piloted in four Connecticut agencies with DCF contracts. Over the past year, CCEP successfully built local capacity such that all MST training and quality assurance is now provided within Connecticut. CCEP has become a licensed MST training network, endorsed by MST Services, Inc. who continues to provide CCEP with operational, logistical and planning support. 
MST involves up to six months of individualized, community-based contact by a therapist, supported by an around-the-clock back-up team. It addresses all relevant environments (home, school and peer groups) by "empowering parents with skills and resources needed to independently address the inevitable difficulties that arise in raising adolescents." MST has been found to be superior to individual therapy in reducing recidivism, crime severity and substance abuse among adolescents, and equally effective for children of both genders, for both younger and older adolescents and for individuals from all socioeconomic and ethnocultural backgrounds. (Go to www.mstservices.com for more information.)
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