TY - JOUR
T1 - A Family Empowerment Intervention for families of juvenile offenders
AU - Cervenka, Kathleen A.
AU - Dembo, Richard
AU - Brown, C. Hendricks
N1 - Funding Information:
Innovative strategies are needed to address intervention efficacy, cost and outcome effectiveness, and enrollment/participation. The Youth Support Project (YSP) in Tampa, Florida, a 5-year project funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, is one such effort. YSP, now in its second year, is conducting a randomized field-trial of a home-based family systems intervention called the Family Empowerment Intervention (FEI), involving high risk youths entering the juvenile justice system and the families of these youths. FEI is an intensive, family systems intervention delivered in the home. A Field Consultant meets with a family a minimum of three times a week for approximately 10 weeks. Each family meeting lasts 1 hour. All household members (i.e., living under the same roof as the target youth) are expected to be present for these meetings.
Funding Information:
Acknowledgements --The preparation of this manuscript was supported by Grant #1-R01-DA08707-02, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Division of Clinical Research. We are grateful for their support. We are deeply grateful to Darrell Manning, Brian Hunter, Gonzalo Lever, Kim Pecheco, Wayne Campbell, Lisa Cohen, Jack Cochise, and Tim Harris for their commitment, dedication, involvement in this project. They have enriched the Youth Support Project in numerous ways, and we are grateful for their insights, energy, commitment, and enthusiasm.
PY - 1996
Y1 - 1996
N2 - This paper presents a summary of the Family Empowerment Intervention (FEI), a family systems intervention delivered in the home by well-trained, nontherapists. The effectiveness of this service-based intervention is being evaluated in a randomized trial of 720 families of juvenile offenders in Tampa, Florida. Beside the intensive intervention period of three weekly family visits over 10 weeks, FEI includes monthly phone contact and a standardized protocol for further interventions being delivered by telephone or at home, plus an extensive service linkage component. We discuss the theoretical framework of this intervention, its goals, stages, and phases of implementation. Staff selection, training, and supervision are addressed, as well as are crisis intervention and staff safety issues.
AB - This paper presents a summary of the Family Empowerment Intervention (FEI), a family systems intervention delivered in the home by well-trained, nontherapists. The effectiveness of this service-based intervention is being evaluated in a randomized trial of 720 families of juvenile offenders in Tampa, Florida. Beside the intensive intervention period of three weekly family visits over 10 weeks, FEI includes monthly phone contact and a standardized protocol for further interventions being delivered by telephone or at home, plus an extensive service linkage component. We discuss the theoretical framework of this intervention, its goals, stages, and phases of implementation. Staff selection, training, and supervision are addressed, as well as are crisis intervention and staff safety issues.
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U2 - 10.1016/1359-1789(95)00007-0
DO - 10.1016/1359-1789(95)00007-0
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0010566162
SN - 1359-1789
VL - 1
SP - 205
EP - 216
JO - Aggression and Violent Behavior
JF - Aggression and Violent Behavior
IS - 3
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