Multisystemic Therapy, also known as MST, is designed for youth with complex clinical, social, and educational problems. Delivered in homes, neighborhoods, schools, and communities by Master’s level professionals, MST addresses the multiple factors known to be related to delinquency. The program goal is to prevent placement and maintain the youth in the home and community.

MST Services

• Initial assessments, including gathering data from parents, children, caseworkers, probation officers, and other relevant sources.
• Collaboration with family members, referral source staff, and Probation staff in providing treatment to youth and family, sharing progress, and reaching treatment goals.
• Development of preliminary and comprehensive weekly treatment plans.
• Home-based, therapeutic counseling to families, including individual and family sessions.
• Crisis intervention services.

Eligibility Criteria

MST Services are available to youth ages 12-17 that are at risk of out-of-home placement and involved in the juvenile-justice system.

The mission of the program is to reunite children with their families and provide the services necessary to decrease continued juvenile offenses, prevent further placement outside the home, and support the family to maintain long-term stability.

PD/FRP is an outcome data-driven program with its foundation in the evidence-based Structural Family Therapy Model. The Placement Diversion Program is designed for youth who are assessed to be at risk of out-of-home placement due to emotional, behavioral, and familial problems. The Family Reunification Program supports the transition of youth from placement into the family, school, and community. Both programs aim to increase youth success by focusing on family functioning and positive parenting behaviors.

PD/FRP Services

• Pre-admission screening
• Comprehensive family assessment
• Family case management
• Family therapy
• Individual counseling
• Follow-up services

Placement Diversion Program

Goal is to increase protective factors, including improved family relationships, improved parenting skill, increasing positive peer interactions, improving school participation, and improving youth self-regulation skills.

• ​Goal is to reduce risk factors, including decreased family conflict, decreased permissive or authoritarian parenting styles, decreased negative peer relationships, decreased school problems, and decreased youth impulsive behaviors
• Over a decade of data demonstrating successful outcomes for youth and families at a reduced cost to stakeholders
• Can be combined with Family Reunification Program Services to provide flexibility to the stakeholder when determining the youth and families to be served

Family Reunification Program

• Goal is to ensure families are able to safely maintain the youth in the home, which significantly increases successful outcomes
• ​Over a decade of data demonstrating successful outcomes for youth and families at a reduced cost to stakeholders
• Can be combined with the Placement Diversion Program to provide flexibility to the stakeholder when determining the youth and families to be served

Eligibility Criteria

PD/FRP Services are available to youth at-risk of out-of-home placement and involved in the juvenile justice system