Foster America Public Files

Among Mollie Bradlee’s responsibilities when she was a Foster America fellow at the Colorado Department of Human Services (CO DHS) was managing a Pay for Success project that consisted of the deployment and evaluation of Multisystemic Therapy (MST), an evidence-based, intensive intervention for youth ages 12-18 who are involved or at risk of involvement with foster care or the juvenile justice system. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, providers of MST funded by CO DHS quickly transitioned to telehealth. CO DHS, in partnership with the Center for Effective Interventions, the lead provider for MST in Colorado, is now taking advantage of a quasi-experimental study that was already under way before the pandemic. In addition to measuring the effectiveness of MST for families working with CO DHS, the findings from the study may help build the evidence base for using telehealth to deliver MST.

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