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The Strengthening Families Program: For Parents and Youth 10-14 (SFP 10-14) is a family skills training program designed to serve families with youth ages 10–14. SFP 10-14 aims to help parents increase their youth’s protective factors, such as pro-social peer relationships, and reduce their youth’s risk factors for behavioral, social, substance use, and academic problems. SFP 10-14 consists of multi-family group sessions. Each session contains three components: parent sessions, youth sessions, and family sessions. During the first half of each session, parents and youth meet separately for parent sessions and youth sessions. During the second half of each session, parents and youth meet together for family sessions. Throughout all sessions, group facilitators use narrated videos of common youth-parent scenarios to help deliver the program.
Strong African American Families (SAAF) is a 7-session, group-based parenting program designed for families with youth ages 10–14. SAAF aims to build on the strengths of African American families to prevent substance use and other risky behaviors. The program focuses on strengthening parental monitoring and involvement, improving communication about sex and substance use, and providing positive racial socialization. SAAF promotes youth goal-setting and attainment, resistance of risky behaviors, and acceptance of parental influences. Each 2-hour session has two parts. In the first hour, youth and caregivers meet in separate groups for activities, discussion, and skill-building. In the second hour, youth and caregivers come back together for activities with their family and the larger group.
Strong Foundations is an adaptation of the Family Foundations (FF) parenting education program designed for pregnant and parenting teens in high schools. Strong Foundations aims to help teens develop a team approach to caregiving, maintain family bonds, reduce stress, and promote adult and child well-being. In Strong Foundations, teens focus on building a parenting team consisting of one, two, or more people who can support them and the child. Teens participate in Strong Foundations individually and typically begin Strong Foundations classes during pregnancy.
The Substance Abuse and Men’s Trauma Recovery and Empowerment Model (SA-M-TREM) is an adaptation of Men’s Trauma Recovery and Empowerment Model (M-TREM) designed for men who have survived trauma and have substance use problems. The program aims to help men make connections between abuse histories and current functioning and develop skills for recovery. SA-M-TREM is a group intervention that uses strategies such as education about mental health issues, cognitive restructuring, skills training, and peer support.
The Matrix Model is an intensive outpatient therapeutic intervention for the treatment of substance use disorders and addiction in adults. The program aims to eliminate substance use, improve knowledge of substance abuse and relapse, improve participants’ relationships, and support personal growth. Participants learn about issues related to addiction and relapse and develop strategies for addressing needs. The Matrix Model integrates components of cognitive behavioral therapy, contingency management, relapse prevention, early recovery skills, and motivational interviewing. Participants engage in a variety of group- and individual-based supports. Clinicians may also encourage family involvement or recommend other social supports. Urine tests are used to monitor drug use of program participants. Individuals also participate in a 12-step program as a part of the Matrix Model treatment plan.
The Seven Challenges – Adolescent aims to help adolescents decrease substance use and improve their mental health, relationships, academic performance, and self-awareness. The Seven Challenges – Adolescent offers a specific framework for holistic life counseling that incorporates decision making based on seven main content areas: (1) communicating honestly about oneself and about alcohol and other drugs; (2) understanding why adolescents like and use alcohol and other drugs; (3) assessing how alcohol and drug use could be harming themselves and others; (4) assessing the responsibility of oneself and others for problems; (5) developing goals and plans for future accomplishments; (6) making thoughtful life decisions, including adolescents’ use of alcohol and other drugs; and, (7) following through on life decisions and decisions about drug use.
The Seven Challenges – Adult aims to help adults decrease substance use and improve their mental health, relationships, and self-awareness. The Seven Challenges – Adult offers a specific framework for holistic life counseling that incorporates decision making based on seven main content areas: (1) communicating honestly about oneself and about alcohol and other drugs; (2) understanding why participants like and use alcohol and other drugs; (3) assessing how alcohol and drug use could be harming themselves and others; (4) assessing the responsibility of oneself and others for problems; (5) developing goals and plans for future accomplishments; (6) making thoughtful life decisions, including participants’ use of alcohol and other drugs; and, (7) following through on life decisions and decisions about drug use.
Trauma Recovery and Empowerment for Adolescent Girls and Young Women Ages 12–18 (G-TREM) is an adaptation of the Trauma Recovery and Empowerment Model (TREM) designed for girls who have experienced physical, sexual, or emotional abuse or witnessed violence. G-TREM is a group intervention that aims to enhance trauma recovery and coping skills, decrease risk of re-victimization, and strengthen girls’ overall functioning. Each session is structured as a conversation about a relevant topic and is led by two or three group leaders. Group leaders form multiple groups with narrow age ranges to ensure conversation topics are age appropriate.
The Trauma Recovery and Empowerment Model (TREM) is designed for women who have survived trauma and may have substance use or mental health conditions. The program aims to increase trauma recovery skills, improve mental health, and decrease substance use. TREM is a group intervention that uses strategies such as education about mental health issues, cognitive restructuring, skills training, and peer support.
Trauma Systems Therapy (TST) is designed for children ages 4–21 and their families who are experiencing difficulties related to traumatic experiences, such as family and community violence, child abuse and neglect, and parental mental illness and substance abuse. TST aims to improve trauma care for children by coordinating trauma services across providers and systems, such as home and community-based care, emotional regulation skill training, exposure therapy, cognitive processing, legal advocacy, and psychopharmacology. Organizations implementing TST establish TST teams consisting of all providers that work with TST families. Team members can include social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, nurse specialists, home-based clinicians, and advocacy attorneys.