The California Institute for Behavioral Health Solutions (CIBHS) is working with a wide range of partner agencies to engage in the model adherent implementation of evidence-based practices. Informed by experiences of county mental health departments and other public agencies, non-profit community-based organizations, and foundations CIBHS has created an approach designed to support the full and sustained implementation of practices and programs – The Community Development Team (CDT) Model.
MST is a pragmatic and goal-oriented treatment that specifically targets factors of each youth’s social network that are contributing to his or her antisocial behavior.Thus, MST interventions typically aim to improve caregiver discipline practices, enhance family affective relations, decrease youth association with deviant peers, increase youth association with prosocial peers, improve youth school or vocational performance, engage youth in prosocial recreational outlets, and develop an indigenous support network of extended family, neighbors, and friends to help caregivers achieve and main
