Trial reportPrevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research2018
Scaling-Up Evidence-Based Programs Using a Public Funding Stream: a Randomized Trial of Functional Family Therapy for Court-Involved Youth.
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- Applying an Equity Lens to Evidence-Based Preventive Interventions: a Systematic Review of Subgroup Findings from Experimental Evaluations.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Pooled it
- Cost-Effectiveness of Functional Family Therapy for Youth Probationers in Singapore: Findings From a Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of marital and family therapy · 2025Trial
- Effectiveness of Functional Family Therapy in a Non-Western Context: Findings from a Randomized-Controlled Evaluation of Youth Offenders in Singapore.Family process · 2021Trial
- Results from a randomized controlled trial of functional family therapy in Norway: effects on family functioning outcomes.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2026Article
- The Landscape of Randomized Controlled Trials for Behavioral Health-Focused Psychosocial Interventions for Youth in the Juvenile Legal System: A Systematic Review.Clinical psychology : a publication of the Division of Clinical Psychology of the American Psychological Association · 2025Article
- Family Factors Associated With Delinquency Outcomes in Court-Involved Youth in Mental Health Treatment.JAACAP open · 2025Article
- Funding the future: safeguarding pediatric health equity through CMS and CHIP.Frontiers in public health · 2025Review
- Where's the BIPOC Blueprint for Healthy Youth Development? The Role of Scientific Omissions in Our Struggle for Science Translation and Racial Equity in the United States.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2024Article
- The Role of Family Factors in the Outcomes of Court-Involved Youth.Youth violence and juvenile justice · 2023Article
- Perspectives on Financing Strategies for Evidence-Based Treatment Implementation in Youth Mental Health Systems.The journal of mental health policy and economics · 2023Article
- Functional Family Therapy for families of youth (age 11-18) with behaviour problems: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Campbell systematic reviews · 2023Review
- Evidence Base Update of Psychosocial Treatments for Adolescents with Disruptive Behavior.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53 · 2023Article
- Voluntary uptake and continuation of treatment among court-involved youth: Lessons learned from the implementation of Functional Family Therapy in a community setting.Children and youth services review · 2020Article
- Substance use prevention services in juvenile justice and behavioral health: results from a national survey.Health & justice · 2020Article
- A scoping review of strategies for financing the implementation of evidence-based practices in behavioral health systems: State of the literature and future directions.Implementation research and practiceArticle
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Abstract
The Affordable Care Act expanded access to Medicaid programs and required them to provide essential health benefits, which can include prevention services. This study assesses the costs and benefits to using Medicaid funding to implement a well-known evidence-based program, Functional Family Therapy (FFT), with a sample of juvenile justice-involved youth. The study also provides a rigorous test of FFT accommodated for a contemporary urban population that is gang at risk or gang-involved. One hundred twenty-nine predominantly minority and low income families were randomly assigned to receive an enhanced version of FFT or an alternative family therapy. Data from pre- and post-intervention interviews with youth and parents, court records of contacts with the justice system and residential placements, official records of community services, and the costs of placements and services are summarized. The intervention was implemented with fidelity to the FFT model using Medicaid funding. Treatment and control subjects received a wide range of community and residential services in addition to FFT. A higher percentage of treatment subjects than controls received services following random assignment, but the cost per youth served was lower for treatment than control youth, primarily because control youth were more often placed in residential facilities. Recidivism during the 18-month follow-up period was lower for FFT than for control youth. The combination of cost savings realized from avoiding more costly services and the expected future savings due to recidivism reduction suggest the expanded use of evidence-based practices using public funding streams such as Medicaid is warranted.
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