Guiding Successful Re-entry: Bringing them Home with MST-FIT
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SESSION INFO

Wednesday, August 30, 2023
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Session Type: Workshop
Achieving successful re-entry for juveniles is arguably one of the toughest tasks facing juvenile justice systems and professionals. Recidivism rates – including rearrests, reconvictions, and recommitment in either juvenile or adult systems – are disheartening and represent systemic failure in the eyes of many ‘outsiders’ including legislators and other key stakeholders. What can be done? In this workshop, Dr. Eric Trupin and Dr. Dan Edwards team up to provide evidence-based, real-world strategies based on Dialectic Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Multisystemic Therapy (MST), and relapse prevention techniques that help youth achieve success after periods of incarceration. Dr. Trupin is the program model developer for an adaptation of MST called ‘Family Integrated Transition’ (MST-FIT) and for the accompanying evidence-based model for treatment while in residential commitments / incarcerated – the Integrated Transitions Model (or ITM). Dr. Edwards has nearly three decades of national and international experience with the real-world implementation of evidence-based models and has experience reducing recidivism rates in multiple systems with the use of EBPs like MST-FIT.

SESSION PRESENTERS
Dan Edwards
Senior Director, Evidence Based Associates


A licensed clinical psychologist and implementation scientist, Dr. Dan Edwards is a Senior Director (Program and System Development) at Evidence-Based Associates (EBA), a national consulting and technical assistance based in Atlanta. EBA focuses on the high-quality implementation of evidence-based programs for system-involved children, youth, young adults, and families. Prior to joining EBA, Dr. Edwards was a Senior Vice-President at MST Services and a Clinical Professor at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. An avid consumer of scientific explorations of implementation practices, Dr. Edwards is a member of the Global Implementation Society (GIS), and he serves as an Associate Editor for the GIS scientific publication, Global Implementation Research and Applications (GIRA). He holds advanced degrees from Harvard University and the University of Florida, and he has written several book chapters and journal articles on the implementation of high-quality evidence-based programs. He also manages a small private practice working with children, youth, and families in Alexandria, VA. In his free time, Dr. Edwards enjoys finding new restaurants and cafes around Old Town Alexandria, volunteering, cycling, reading (especially creative non-fiction), and learning how to play pickleball.

Stephanie Gaillou
RE-Connect Project Director, Evidence Based Associates


Stephanie Gaillou serves as Director of the RE-Connect Project at Evidence-Based Associates (EBA) where she oversees the implementation of the Integrated Treatment Model with MST-based aftercare across children’s residential settings within one of NY’s largest nonprofit social service providers, the Jewish Board. Prior to this, she supported the implementation of evidence- based, community-driven responses to public safety at the local level in NYC through a pretrial reform project funded by the Mayor’s Office, and at the national and state level, where she provided training and consultation services to jurisdictions implementing community courts, treatment courts, and tribal healing-to-wellness courts funded through the Department of Justice.

Daphne Torres
Vice President for Behavioral Health Services, Children's Village


Daphne has over 30 years working with adolescents and families in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, with the last 22 years implementing Evidence Based Programming as a means of stopping the school to jail pipeline through preventive planning. Daphne currently oversees implementation of EBPs (Multisystemic Therapy and Functional Family Therapy) aimed at helping families successfully meet sustainable goals that foster improved family functioning and increase positive opportunities for youth within the community and school system. Daphne is committed to developing staff into strong clinicians, has served as a field instructor and an adjunct professor. She is a member of the NASW and is on various committees/advocacy groups committed to undoing institutional racism. She received her MSW degree from Fordham University.

Eric Trupin
Professor & Vice Chair, University of Washington


Dr. Eric Trupin is a Professor and Child Psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Based in Seattle Washington, he directed the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center for twelve years and developed the Division of Public Behavioral Health and Justice Policy for the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. In 2007 the Washington State Legislature established an Evidence-Based Institute within his Division. Dr. Trupin has provided consultations on evidence based and evidence informed interventions for youth and child welfare, mental health, and juvenile justice in jurisdictions throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, and Norway, and has been instrumental in developing legislation to improve outcomes for children, youth, and families. Dr. Trupin has been a Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on clinical and systems research programs supported by the NIDA, SAMSHA, and the MacArthur and Paul Allen Foundations. Dr. Trupin is the developer of the Family Integrated Transitions (FIT) program, which combines Multi-Systemic Therapy, Dialectic Behavior Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing to improve outcomes for children and youth transitioning from residential care.