Contact: Janet Chappell, 541-485-2711
WASHINGTON, DC — The Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy has determined that Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC), a multimodal behavioral intervention program developed at the Oregon Social Learning Center by Dr. Patti Chamberlain and colleagues, meets the “top tier” standard for evidence of effectiveness with delinquent youth. Several recent Congressional actions seek to focus funds in certain federal social programs on models and strategies meeting the top tier of evidence of effectiveness. These programs “have been shown, in well-designed randomized controlled trials, to produce sizeable, sustained effects on important . . . outcomes” [Public Laws 110-161 and 111-8]. To assist lawmakers, the nonprofit, nonpartisan Coalition has recently launched an initiative to identify models and strategies (“interventions”) meeting this evidence standard. Congress has officially asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to monitor and assess the effort.