Functional Family Therapy (FFT) - Extra Familial Harm
FFT-Extra Familial Harm is a clinical accommodation of FFT, where children are at risk of criminal exploitation, gang involvement or contextual risks.
Family Psychology Mutual CIC has been awarded a Youth Endowment Fund grant for an efficacy Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) for Functional Family Therapy (FFT) for children at risk of Extra Familial Harm. This has been granted after a successful pilot RCT that took place in Redbridge to test out the ability of the intervention to adapt and deliver in a UK context and achieve outcomes for children aged 10 to 17 who are considered at risk of gang involvement and criminal exploitation.
The project is delivered in collaboration with the London Boroughs of Redbridge, Tower Hamlets, and Haringey. There are three FFT teams, each consisting of one Supervisor, two FFT workers and a Business Support Officer. The teams are embedded within their assigned London Borough where there is close interagency collaboration, joint working, and the use of shared data systems.
The risks that children face in this project are largely outside of the family home. By strengthening the family as a protective unit, FFT offers hope of reducing external risks in the immediate and long term as improved family relationships are sustained beyond the end of the intervention period
