Crisis Response
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CrimeSolutions’ ratings are assigned from standardized reviews of rigorous evaluations and meta-analyses. While we encourage you to learn more about this process, you don’t need to in order to benefit from it. Our clear ratings and profiles can help you determine if a program or category of program is worth pursuing.
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Effective | Implementing the program is likely to result in the intended outcome(s). | On average, there is strong evidence that implementing a program encompassed by the practice will achieve the intended outcome. |
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Promising | Implementing the program may result in the intended outcome(s) | On average, there is some evidence that implementing a program encompassed by the practice will achieve the intended outcome. |
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Ineffective | Implementing the program is unlikely to result in the intended outcome(s) and may result in a negative outcome(s). | On average, there is strong evidence that implementing a program encompassed by the practice will not achieve the intended outcome or may result in a negative outcome. |
Programs
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Topic: crisis response| Title | Evidence Rating | Topics | Summary | RCT | ||
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| Program Profile: Risk Reduction through Family Therapy (RRFT) for Adolescents |
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Mental health, Substance abuse, Children exposed to violence, Trauma, Treatment, Rape and sexual assault, Violent crime, Crisis response, Juvenile (under 18), Drugs, Drug treatment | The goal of this exposure-based, integrative intervention was to reduce substance use and mental health problems in adolescents who have experienced trauma. The program is rated Promising. The program had a statistically significant impact on depressive and internalizing symptoms, family cohesion, and family conflict. There were mixed results for PTSD symptoms and substance use. There was no statistically significant impact on externalizing symptoms. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Mentally Ill Offender Community Transition Program (Washington) |
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Parole, Probation, Mental health, Prisons, Correctional facilities, Corrections, Reentry, Inmate programs, Recidivism, Crime prevention | The program is targeted at individuals whose mental illnesses are seen as instrumental in their offenses, and who are likely to qualify for and benefit from publicly supported treatment in the community. The overall goal is to reduce recidivism . The program is rated Effective. Participants in the program were less likely to be convicted of any new offense and convicted of felony offenses, compared with the matched comparison group. The difference was statistically significant. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Lethality Assessment Program (Oklahoma) |
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Crime prevention, Violent crime, Victim services, Victims of crime | This is a crisis-response program in which police connect female victims of intimate partner violence with a social service provider, via telephone, at the scene of a domestic violence dispute. The program is rated Promising. When compared with the control group, program participants reported experiencing less violence at follow up. Participants were also more likely to receive an order of protection, and to contact domestic violence services. These differences were statistically significant. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: The Women's Program |
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Girls, Alcohol-Related Offenses, Stalking, Assault, Underage drinking, Campus Crime, Coping, Violent crime, Crime prevention, Schools, Crisis response | This is a sexual assault risk-reduction program that is designed to teach college women bystanders about sexual assault, characteristics of men who perpetrate the crime, and how to intervene. The program is rated Promising. Experimental group participants demonstrated statistically significant increases in their ability and willingness to intervene, compared with control group participants. However, there was no statistically significant impact on rape myth acceptance. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Cognitive-Processing Therapy for Female Victims of Sexual Assault |
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Assault, Dating violence, Stalking, Children exposed to violence, Coping, Grief, Rape and sexual assault, Violent crime, Crime prevention, Victims of crime, Crisis response | This is a cognitive therapeutic program that is intended to assist female victims of sexual assault with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The overall goal is to restructure unbalanced thoughts directly related to the trauma. The program is rated Effective. Women in the treatment group demonstrated reduced symptoms of both PTSD and depression, compared with women in the control group. These differences were statistically significant. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Second Responders Program (Redlands, CA) |
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Problem-oriented policing, Crime prevention, Violent crime, Victims of crime, Crisis response | The program model enlists second responders to make home visits to try to help victims find long-term solutions to help repeat incident victims of family violence including intimate partner abuse, abuse within families or households, and elder abuse. The program is rated Ineffective. Overall, the evidence found no statistically significant differences between the treatment and control groups on prevalence of and frequency of new domestic incidents and time to failure. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: HOMEBUILDERS |
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Children exposed to violence, Trauma, Treatment, Case Management, Family reunification, Foster care/child welfare system, Crisis response | This is an in-home, family preservation service and reunification program for families with children returning from or at risk for out-of-home placement. The program is rated Effective. The treatment group had a statistically significant greater number of reunifications and reduced rates of out-of-home placement, compared with the control group. However, there were no significant differences between groups in successful reunification (i.e., whether the children returned to foster care). Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Multisystemic Therapy for Child Abuse and Neglect (MST-CAN) |
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Mental health, Children exposed to violence, Minorities, Trauma, Treatment, Foster care/child welfare system, Youth development, Home visiting, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Crime prevention, Crisis response | This program addresses family functioning and parental behavior to reduce child abuse, neglect, and external placement. The program is rated Promising. Compared with the control group, treatment parents and children showed statistically significant improvements in functioning, treatment parents showed significant improvements in social support, and treatment children had a lower likelihood of receiving external placement. However, there were no significant differences between groups on abuse. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Infant-Parent Psychotherapy |
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Juvenile health, Children exposed to violence, Trauma, Treatment, Home visiting, Crisis response, Intimate partner violence | This is a dyadic, relationship-based therapy intended for maltreating parents (who had neglectful experiences in their childhood) and their infants. This program is rated Effective. Families in the treatment group experienced a statistically significant higher rate of secure attachment and a higher likelihood of change from insecure to secure attachment from baseline to follow up, as well as a lower rate of stable disorganized attachment, compared with families in the control group. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention (CFTSI) |
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Juvenile health, Mental health, Children exposed to violence, Dating violence, Coping, Grief, Trauma, Treatment, Crisis response, Juvenile (under 18), Intimate partner violence | This is a brief early intervention and secondary prevention model, designed to prevent the development of chronic posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), for children aged 7–18 years who have recently experienced a potentially traumatic event. The program is rated Promising. Compared with the comparison group, the intervention group was statistically significantly less likely to have a PTSD diagnosis or receive a partial/full PTSD diagnosis; they also showed a lower severity of PTSD symptoms. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Project Support |
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Juvenile health, Mental health, Children exposed to violence, Coping, Trauma, Treatment, Home visiting, Intimate partner violence, Crime prevention, Violent crime, Crisis response | This program is designed to provide support to battered mothers and reduce conduct problems in their children. The program is rated Promising. There were statistically significant effects in favor of the treatment group on measures of children’s conduct problems, happiness, and mothers’ aggression toward children. However, there were no statistically significant effects on children’s internalizing behaviors, mothers’ return to abusive partners, or recurrence of physical violence. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Charlotte-Mecklenburg (N.C.) Police Department Domestic Violence Unit |
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Assault, Dating violence, Evidence, Witnesses, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Prosecution, Law enforcement operations, Law enforcement, Problem-oriented policing, Victims of crime, Crisis response | This program consists of a specialized police unit, which was designed to prevent recidivism among people convicted of domestic violence offenses and to assist victims of domestic violence through the process of prosecution and recovery. The program is rated Promising. The treatment group assigned to the Domestic Violence Unit had a statistically significant lower likelihood of recidivating, compared with the control group, who were assigned to standard patrol. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Narrative Exposure Therapy for Traumatized Children and Adolescents (KidNET) |
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Mental health, Children exposed to violence, Immigrants, Trauma, Treatment, Crisis response, Juvenile (under 18) | This is an individual-level, psychosocial treatment that seeks to reduce posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in traumatized refugee youth living in exile. The program is rated Promising. At the 6-month follow up, treatment participants showed statistically significant improvement in symptoms of PTSD and cognitive functioning, compared with control group youth. However, no significant differences were found between the two groups for comorbid disorders. Date Posted: |
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CrimeSolutions’ ratings are assigned from standardized reviews of rigorous evaluations and meta-analyses. While we encourage you to learn more about this process, you don’t need to in order to benefit from it. Our clear ratings and profiles can help you determine if a program or category of program is worth pursuing.
| Icon | Rating | Program Rating Description | Practice Rating Description |
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Effective | Implementing the program is likely to result in the intended outcome(s). | On average, there is strong evidence that implementing a program encompassed by the practice will achieve the intended outcome. |
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Promising | Implementing the program may result in the intended outcome(s) | On average, there is some evidence that implementing a program encompassed by the practice will achieve the intended outcome. |
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Ineffective | Implementing the program is unlikely to result in the intended outcome(s) and may result in a negative outcome(s). | On average, there is strong evidence that implementing a program encompassed by the practice will not achieve the intended outcome or may result in a negative outcome. |
Programs
Showing Results For:
Topic: crisis response| Title | Evidence Rating | Topics | Summary | RCT | ||
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| Program Profile: Risk Reduction through Family Therapy (RRFT) for Adolescents |
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Mental health, Substance abuse, Children exposed to violence, Trauma, Treatment, Rape and sexual assault, Violent crime, Crisis response, Juvenile (under 18), Drugs, Drug treatment | The goal of this exposure-based, integrative intervention was to reduce substance use and mental health problems in adolescents who have experienced trauma. The program is rated Promising. The program had a statistically significant impact on depressive and internalizing symptoms, family cohesion, and family conflict. There were mixed results for PTSD symptoms and substance use. There was no statistically significant impact on externalizing symptoms. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Mentally Ill Offender Community Transition Program (Washington) |
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Parole, Probation, Mental health, Prisons, Correctional facilities, Corrections, Reentry, Inmate programs, Recidivism, Crime prevention | The program is targeted at individuals whose mental illnesses are seen as instrumental in their offenses, and who are likely to qualify for and benefit from publicly supported treatment in the community. The overall goal is to reduce recidivism . The program is rated Effective. Participants in the program were less likely to be convicted of any new offense and convicted of felony offenses, compared with the matched comparison group. The difference was statistically significant. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Lethality Assessment Program (Oklahoma) |
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Crime prevention, Violent crime, Victim services, Victims of crime | This is a crisis-response program in which police connect female victims of intimate partner violence with a social service provider, via telephone, at the scene of a domestic violence dispute. The program is rated Promising. When compared with the control group, program participants reported experiencing less violence at follow up. Participants were also more likely to receive an order of protection, and to contact domestic violence services. These differences were statistically significant. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: The Women's Program |
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Girls, Alcohol-Related Offenses, Stalking, Assault, Underage drinking, Campus Crime, Coping, Violent crime, Crime prevention, Schools, Crisis response | This is a sexual assault risk-reduction program that is designed to teach college women bystanders about sexual assault, characteristics of men who perpetrate the crime, and how to intervene. The program is rated Promising. Experimental group participants demonstrated statistically significant increases in their ability and willingness to intervene, compared with control group participants. However, there was no statistically significant impact on rape myth acceptance. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Cognitive-Processing Therapy for Female Victims of Sexual Assault |
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Assault, Dating violence, Stalking, Children exposed to violence, Coping, Grief, Rape and sexual assault, Violent crime, Crime prevention, Victims of crime, Crisis response | This is a cognitive therapeutic program that is intended to assist female victims of sexual assault with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The overall goal is to restructure unbalanced thoughts directly related to the trauma. The program is rated Effective. Women in the treatment group demonstrated reduced symptoms of both PTSD and depression, compared with women in the control group. These differences were statistically significant. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Second Responders Program (Redlands, CA) |
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Problem-oriented policing, Crime prevention, Violent crime, Victims of crime, Crisis response | The program model enlists second responders to make home visits to try to help victims find long-term solutions to help repeat incident victims of family violence including intimate partner abuse, abuse within families or households, and elder abuse. The program is rated Ineffective. Overall, the evidence found no statistically significant differences between the treatment and control groups on prevalence of and frequency of new domestic incidents and time to failure. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: HOMEBUILDERS |
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Children exposed to violence, Trauma, Treatment, Case Management, Family reunification, Foster care/child welfare system, Crisis response | This is an in-home, family preservation service and reunification program for families with children returning from or at risk for out-of-home placement. The program is rated Effective. The treatment group had a statistically significant greater number of reunifications and reduced rates of out-of-home placement, compared with the control group. However, there were no significant differences between groups in successful reunification (i.e., whether the children returned to foster care). Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Multisystemic Therapy for Child Abuse and Neglect (MST-CAN) |
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Mental health, Children exposed to violence, Minorities, Trauma, Treatment, Foster care/child welfare system, Youth development, Home visiting, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Crime prevention, Crisis response | This program addresses family functioning and parental behavior to reduce child abuse, neglect, and external placement. The program is rated Promising. Compared with the control group, treatment parents and children showed statistically significant improvements in functioning, treatment parents showed significant improvements in social support, and treatment children had a lower likelihood of receiving external placement. However, there were no significant differences between groups on abuse. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Infant-Parent Psychotherapy |
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Juvenile health, Children exposed to violence, Trauma, Treatment, Home visiting, Crisis response, Intimate partner violence | This is a dyadic, relationship-based therapy intended for maltreating parents (who had neglectful experiences in their childhood) and their infants. This program is rated Effective. Families in the treatment group experienced a statistically significant higher rate of secure attachment and a higher likelihood of change from insecure to secure attachment from baseline to follow up, as well as a lower rate of stable disorganized attachment, compared with families in the control group. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention (CFTSI) |
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Juvenile health, Mental health, Children exposed to violence, Dating violence, Coping, Grief, Trauma, Treatment, Crisis response, Juvenile (under 18), Intimate partner violence | This is a brief early intervention and secondary prevention model, designed to prevent the development of chronic posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), for children aged 7–18 years who have recently experienced a potentially traumatic event. The program is rated Promising. Compared with the comparison group, the intervention group was statistically significantly less likely to have a PTSD diagnosis or receive a partial/full PTSD diagnosis; they also showed a lower severity of PTSD symptoms. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Project Support |
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Juvenile health, Mental health, Children exposed to violence, Coping, Trauma, Treatment, Home visiting, Intimate partner violence, Crime prevention, Violent crime, Crisis response | This program is designed to provide support to battered mothers and reduce conduct problems in their children. The program is rated Promising. There were statistically significant effects in favor of the treatment group on measures of children’s conduct problems, happiness, and mothers’ aggression toward children. However, there were no statistically significant effects on children’s internalizing behaviors, mothers’ return to abusive partners, or recurrence of physical violence. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Charlotte-Mecklenburg (N.C.) Police Department Domestic Violence Unit |
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Assault, Dating violence, Evidence, Witnesses, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Prosecution, Law enforcement operations, Law enforcement, Problem-oriented policing, Victims of crime, Crisis response | This program consists of a specialized police unit, which was designed to prevent recidivism among people convicted of domestic violence offenses and to assist victims of domestic violence through the process of prosecution and recovery. The program is rated Promising. The treatment group assigned to the Domestic Violence Unit had a statistically significant lower likelihood of recidivating, compared with the control group, who were assigned to standard patrol. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Narrative Exposure Therapy for Traumatized Children and Adolescents (KidNET) |
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Mental health, Children exposed to violence, Immigrants, Trauma, Treatment, Crisis response, Juvenile (under 18) | This is an individual-level, psychosocial treatment that seeks to reduce posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in traumatized refugee youth living in exile. The program is rated Promising. At the 6-month follow up, treatment participants showed statistically significant improvement in symptoms of PTSD and cognitive functioning, compared with control group youth. However, no significant differences were found between the two groups for comorbid disorders. Date Posted: |
None |