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FAST Cited as Family-Strengthening Intervention

October 23, 2006

Families and Schools Together, an 8-week program for families and children held in school and community locations, is cited for its effectiveness in the Harvard Family Research Project October 2006 report, "Lessons from Family-Strengthening Interventions: Learning from Evidence-Based Practice." In program evaluations, families in the FAST intervention group "were more likely than control-group families to seek substance abuse treatment or mental health counseling at the completion of the program, to pursue adult education, and do volunteer work in the community and become community leaders." The Harvard Family Research Project aims to help educators, service providers, and local evaluators in schools, intermediary and community-based organizations, and social service agencies become more effective by highlighting the best program and evaluation practices of family-strengthening intervention programs. More information about the Harvard Family Research Project is available here.