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

Center for Research to Practice

Status and phase: Unknown; Phase 3; Phase 2

Conditions: Behavior Problems

Treatments: Behavioral: Community Development Teams

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00880126

R01MH076158

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 350 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

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

Exclusion criteria

• Placed fewer than 6 youth per year in group care

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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350 participants in 1 patient group

CDT

Experimental group

Description:

Community Development Teams bring together counties who are implementing a new practice

Treatment:

Behavioral: Community Development Teams