MST Services
This website contains an abundance of information about Multisytemic Therapy, as well as its implementation in the United States and other countries internationally.

MST Institute
MST Institute web site. This site contains quality assurance and program evaluation measures that are for use by programs who are currently utilizing or implementing Multisystemic Therapy.

Richmond New Zealand
Richmond New Zealand Incorporated is a national provider of community-based services supporting people who have health and social needs. They are guided by the belief that, with few exceptions, everyone can live successfully in their community.

United States Department of Justice
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) Bulletin published in May of 1996 advocating Multisystemic Therapy and highlighting the results of several clinical research studies.

Blueprints for Violence Prevention
The Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence for additional information about the Blueprints Project.

Cost Effectiveness
Watching the Bottom Line: Cost Effective Interventions for Reducing Crime in Washington. The results of a study directed by the Washington State Legislature to evaluate the costs and benefits of certain criminal justice policies, violence prevention programs, and other efforts to decrease criminal recidivism and at-risk behaviors of youth.

London Family Court Clinic
We have completed a randomized field trial with high-risk young offenders in four Ontario communities. A Backgrounder on the project and four interim update reports (1997-2001) are available, along with our document answering Frequently Asked Questions about MST.

Surgeon General Reports - Mental Health
MST has been identified by the Surgeon of the United States as a program with demonstrated effectiveness. See the section on Home-Based Services in Chapter 3.

Surgeon General Reports - Youth Violence
The Surgeon General cited MST as being a Model (Effective) Program with specific strategies that can prevent violence in delinquent youths and prevent further violence in already violent youths.

Strengthening America's Families
This project represents a collaboration between OJJDP, the University of Utah and three other agencies: Birch and Davis, Inc. and the Center for Child Protection and Family Support in Washington, D.C. and the University of Akron, Center for Family-Friendly Cities. They maintain an internet database of family programs for the United Nations Secretariate, the International Year of the Family.

Fact Sheets
Posted on the National Center on Rural Justice & Crime Prevention web site, these sheets describe the causes and correlates of antisocial behavior and provide information about various aspects of MST.

The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
MST was selected as a federally recognized Exemplary Model Program by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention's National Registry of Effective Prevention Programs (NREPP). This link will connect you with the CSAP website.

Washington State Institute for Public Policy
New cost-benefit analysis on the "bottom-line" economics of programs that try to reduce crime. This link will download the full text (180 pages).

The Promising Practices Network(PPN)
Web site highlights programs and practices that credible research indicates are effective in improving outcomes for children, youth, and families. This site provides useful information to decision makers, practitioners, and program funders who must choose among many possibilities for improving results for children, youth, and families.

Family Services Research Centre
The overarching purpose of the Family Services Research Center (FSRC), established in 1992, is to increase the effectiveness of the state and nation's mental health and substance abuse services for children, adolescents, and their families. The primary strategies used to further this purpose have been to conduct rigorous research on the development, validation, and dissemination of clinically effective and cost effective mental health and substance abuse services for youths presenting serious clinical problems and their families.
As such, FSRC projects have included numerous community-based randomized trials with challenging clinical populations (e.g., violent and chronic juvenile offenders, youths presenting psychiatric emergencies, substance abusing juvenile offenders, maltreating families), and dissemination studies for multisystemic therapy and other evidence-based treatments are being conducted in multiple states and nations. The FSRC has received the Annie E. Casey Families Count Award as well as the Points of Light Foundation President's Award in recognition of excellence in community service directed at solving community problems.