@article{ref1,
title="Engaging high risk families in community based intervention services",
journal="Aggression and violent behavior",
year="1999",
author="Dembo, R. and Cervenka, KA and Hunter, Barbara and Wang, Weixu and Schmeidler, J.",
volume="4",
number="1",
pages="41-58",
abstract="Involving high risk families in community based intervention services constitutes a major challenge facing service delivery in the fields of mental health and substance abuse. Mental health and substance abuse programs typically experience high rates of failure to enroll families in services, as well as high rates of drop-outs from treatment. With family-based intervention programs, those involving all the members of the family or household participation by the entire family is a key to having a successful program. The NIDA funded Youth Support Project tests such a home and family based Family Empowerment Intervention in a randomized field trial which targets families of juvenile offenders. This intervention is delivered three times a week by paraprofessionals who are supervised by a licensed clinician. We discuss the guiding principles and success of our enrollment activities and discuss their implications for other family-based services.<p />",
language="en",
issn="1359-1789",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}