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Communities That Care (CTC)
Communities That Care (CTC) is a prevention system, grounded in science that gives communities the tools to address their adolescent health and behavior problems through a focus on empirically identified risk and protective factors. CTC provides a structure for engaging community stakeholders, a process for establishing a shared community vision, tools for assessing levels of… Read More
Multisystemic Therapy (MST)
Multisystemic Therapy® (MST®) is an intensive family- and home-based treatment that strives to create healthier families and reduce recidivism among chronic, violent, or substance-abusing male and female juvenile offenders at risk of out-of-home placement. MST seeks to improve the real-world functioning of youth by changing their natural settings – home, school, and neighborhood – in… Read More
Rochester Forensic Assertive Community Treatment (R-FACT)
Rochester Forensic Assertive Community Treatment (R-FACT) is an outpatient treatment program to reduce recidivism and promote recovery among justice-involved adults with a serious mental illness. The program is an adaptation of assertive community treatment (ACT), developed to prevent psychiatric hospitalization and promote housing stability. However, ACT alone has not been shown to reduce recidivism. R-FACT… Read More
Child First
Child FIRST (Family Interagency, Resource, Support, and Training) is a home-based program that aims to alleviate the effects of trauma and stress in order to prevent or reduce emotional disturbance, developmental and learning problems, and abuse and neglect in prenatal to 5-year-old children. The intervention simultaneously focuses psychotherapy on the parent-child relationship and develops a… Read More
Body Project
The Body Project is a body acceptance intervention that was designed to help high school and college age women resist sociocultural pressures to conform to the thin ideal and reduce their pursuit of thinness. This group-based intervention targets females who are between 15 and 22 years old with body dissatisfaction, a known risk factor for… Read More
Teaching Kids to Cope (TKC)
Teaching Kids to Cope (TKC) is a 10-session group intervention designed to reduce depression and stress by enhancing the coping skills among high school adolescents and young adults displaying depression symptoms. Each session lasts 45 minutes. Participants are guided through a process to discover their distorted thinking patterns and to test their thinking against reality… Read More
Positive Action
Positive Action is a comprehensive, school-based program for kindergarten through 8th grade students, which promotes learning through enhancement of self-concept. Positive Action operates on the philosophy that thoughts lead to actions, actions lead to feelings, and feelings lead to thoughts. When this cycle is positive, it is maintained intrinsically because self-efficacy is a robust motivator…. Read More
Functional Family Therapy (FFT)
A short-term (approximately 30 hours) family therapy intervention and juvenile diversion program helping at-risk children and delinquent youth, ages 11-18, to overcome adolescent behavior problems, conduct disorder, substance abuse and delinquency. Therapists work with families to assess family behaviors that maintain delinquent behavior, modify dysfunctional family communication, train family members to negotiate effectively, set clear… Read More
Guiding Good Choices (GGC)
Guiding Good Choices (GGC) is a family competency training program for parents of children in middle school that gives parents the skills needed to reduce their children’s risk for using alcohol and other drugs. The program contains five-sessions, with an average session length of 2 hours each week. Children are required to attend one session… Read More
LifeSkills Training (LST)
LifeSkills Training (LST) is a three-year universal substance abuse and violence prevention program designed to be implemented with middle/junior high school students. LST consists of 15 core sessions in Level 1, 10 booster sessions in Level 2, and 5 booster sessions in Level 3. Additional violence prevention lessons also are available for each level (3,… Read More