Program Profile: Families Facing the Future

This is an intensive family program combining relapse prevention and parenting skills training.

Evidence Rating: Ineffective | One study

Date:

This is an intensive family program combining relapse prevention and parenting skills training. This program is rated Ineffective. Treatment group parents demonstrated statistically significantly less heroin use, fewer domestic conflicts, and higher refusal skills than control parents did. There were no statistically significant differences in other drug use by parents, child drug and alcohol use, child delinquency, child-reported negative peers, or child school attachment.

An Ineffective rating implies that implementing the program is unlikely to result in the intended outcome(s).

This program's rating is based on evidence that includes at least one high-quality randomized controlled trial.

Date Modified: February 18, 2020

Re-review In 2019, a re-review of the same studies, using the updated CrimeSolutions Program Scoring Instrument, resulted in the same final rating of No Effects.

Date Created: July 17, 2024
Program Snapshot

Age: 29 - 41

Gender: Male, Female

Race/Ethnicity: White, Black, Other

Geography: Suburban Urban

Setting (Delivery): Inpatient/Outpatient, Home

Program Type: Alcohol and Drug Therapy/Treatment, Alcohol and Drug Prevention, Family Therapy, Parent Training, Wraparound/Case Management

Targeted Population: Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) Offenders, Families

Current Program Status: Active