Community Development Teams to Scale-Up Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC) in California

Conditions

Behavior Problems

Keywords

Individualized Implementation, Community Development Teams

Brief summary

The effects of using Community Development Teams to increase the number of counties that successfully implement and sustain Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care programs is studied in a randomized trial in 40 California counties. MTFC is an alternative to group or residential placement for youth with severe conduct and emotional problems referred from the juvenile justice and child welfare systems.

C. Hendricks Brown, Patricia Chamberlain, Lisa Saldana, Courtenay Padgett, Wei Wang et al. (6 authors)

Implementation Science2014-10-1389 citations

10.1186/s13012-014-0134-8

Influence network linkages across implementation strategy conditions in a randomized controlled trial of two strategies for scaling up evidence-based practices in public youth-serving systems

Lawrence A. Palinkas, Ian W. Holloway, Eric Rice, C. Hendricks Brown, Thomas W. Valente et al. (6 authors)

Implementation Science2013-11-1420 citations

10.1186/1748-5908-8-133

Social networks and implementation of evidence-based practices in public youth-serving systems: a mixed-methods study.

Palinkas LA, Holloway IW, Rice E, Fuentes D, Wu Q, Chamberlain P.

2011-09-2956 citations

10.1186/1748-5908-6-113

Interventions

BEHAVIORALCommunity Development Teams

CDTs bring together counties who are implementing a new practice

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Non-early adopters of evidence-based practice (MTFC)

Exclusion criteria

* Placed fewer than 6 youth per year in group care

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Implementation of an evidence-based practice in counties	5 years

Outcome results

None listed