Definition
MST-CAN® is a home-based voluntary therapeutic intervention that has a strong commitment to engaging the whole family in the program.
The goals of MST-CAN® include keeping families together, ensuring that children are safe, preventing abuse and neglect, reducing mental health difficulties, and increasing natural social supports for the family.
In addition, MST-CAN® provides treatment to improve mental health functioning, including addressing trauma symptoms, and to decrease the misuse of substances.
MST-CAN® is an evidence-based model (EBM) that targets families where there has been a substantiated ROSH report of physical abuse and/or neglect of a child aged six – 17 years within the past 180 days. It is a treatment for serious, high risk and complex cases. MST-CAN® addresses the multiple factors known to be related to physical abuse and/or neglect across the key settings, or systems, within which the family is embedded. MST-CAN® strives to promote behavioural change in the family’s natural environment, using the strengths of each system (e.g. family, peers, school, neighbourhood, kinship, support networks) to facilitate change.
Functional Family Therapy – Child Welfare (FFT-CW®) is a home-based treatment model for families with substantiated physical abuse and/or neglect of a child or young person aged between 0 and 17 years by providing a family therapy-focused model for at-risk families. FFT-CW® addresses the underlying trauma that results in harm to children, young people and families.
The FFT-CW® model
- addresses child abuse and neglect, substance abuse, mental illness, school difficulties, and history of out-of-home care or involvement with the NSW child protection system
 - is focused on engaging with the family’s broader social environment
 - delivers a comprehensive service to all family members, after assessing the abuse dynamics within the family
 - develops each family’s social and community networks which are considered a central component of the service response.
 
Data source details
| Path name | Data Element | Definition | Data Type | Format | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHILDSTORYID | Person: ChildStory Identifier, A-N(8) | 
                            
                                 Internal Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) Person identifier from ChildStory.  | 
                        CHARACTERSTRING | A-N(8) | 
| START_DATE | Family: First Service Date, DateTime YYYY-MM-DD | 
                            
                                 The date a family started receiving a service.  | 
                        DATETIME | YYYY-MM-DD(T00:00:00) | 
| EEN_DATE | Family: Exit Date, DateTime YYYY-MM-DD | 
                            
                                 The date a family disengaged/exited the program.  | 
                        DATETIME | YYYY-MM-DD(T00:00:00) | 
| DOB | Person: Date of Birth, YYYY-MM-DD | 
                            
                                 The date of birth of the person, expressed as a date time stamp.  | 
                        DATETIME | YYYY-MM-DD(T00:00:00) | 
| MODEL | Program Level Agreement: Program Name, MST FFT Code AAA-AA(A) | 
                            
                                 The code that represents the description by which a program is known of the agreement between the Service Provider and DCJ, either the Multisystemic Therapy Child Abuse and Neglect (MST-CAN®) or Functional Family Therapy through Child Welfare (FFT-CW®) services. 
                                    Specific Information:
                                 
                                The service being delivered, either Multisystemic Therapy Child Abuse and Neglect (MST-CAN®) or Functional Family Therapy through Child Welfare (FFT-CW®).  | 
                        CODE | AAA-AA(A) | 
| LOCATION | Address: Locality Name, Text X(46) | 
                            
                                 The name of the locality, suburb or town of an address, as represented by text.  | 
                        CHARACTERSTRING | X(46) | 
| INDIGENOUSSTATUS | Family: Indigenous Status, Code X(14) | 
                            
                                 An Indicator of whether any members of a Family identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.  | 
                        CHARACTERSTRING | X(14) | 
| REFERRALSTATUS | Service Event: Referral Status, Code A(10) | 
                            
                                 A code representing the status of a given referral within a program  | 
                        ALPHASTRING | A(10) | 
| AGE | Person: Age, Total Years NNN | 
                            
                                 The age of the person in (completed) years at a specific point in time.  | 
                        NUMBERSTRING | NNN | 
| PROVIDER | Organisation: Organisation Name, Text X(200) | 
                            
                                 The full title of an organisation's name by which it trades or is recognised, as represented by text. 
                                    Specific Information:
                                 
                                A string code that uniquely identifies a provider of the MST or FFT service  | 
                        ALPHANUMERICSTRING | X(200) | 
| PRIORITY_LOC | Organisation: Internal Business Unit, label X(50) | 
                            
                                 An Internal Business Unit that provides services and/or care, as represented by a label  | 
                        CHARACTERSTRING | X(50) | 
| CSC | Service Episode: Community Service Centre (CSC) Location, Code X(15) | 
                            
                                 A code that represents the Community Service Centre (CSC) location a Service is delivered or administered from.  | 
                        CHARACTERSTRING | X(15) | 
| DECISION | You don't have permission to see this Data Element. | - | - | - | 
| DATE_ACCEPTED_DECLINED | Service Episode: Referral Declined Date, DateTime YYYY-MM-DD | 
                            
                                 The date expressed as YYYYMMDD on which a referral was declined for an instance of service delivery.  | 
                        DATETIME | YYYY-MM-DD(T00:00:00) | 
| COMPLETION_STATUS | You don't have permission to see this Data Element. | - | - | - | 
| COMPLETION_DATE | Service Episode: End Date, DateTime YYYY-MM-DD | 
                            
                                 The date expressed as YYYYMMDD on which a service episode was completed.  | 
                        DATETIME | YYYY-MM-DD(T00:00:00) | 
| INGESTTIME | Record: DateTime Stamp, YYYY-MM-DD | 
                            
                                 A sequence of characters or encoded information identifying when a certain event occurred, on what day, and optionally including what particular time of day.  | 
                        DATETIME | YYYY-MM-DD(T00:00:00) | 
| INGESTTYPE | Record: Ingest Type, Label A(6) | 
                            
                                 File (data) ingestion process type, represented by a label.  | 
                        ALPHASTRING | A(6) | 
| FILENAME | Record: Filename, Text X(200) | 
                            
                                 File name (data) ingested into BigQuery, represented by text.  | 
                        ALPHANUMERICSTRING | X(200) | 
| BATCHID | Record: Batch Id, Text X(200) | 
                            
                                 System generated identification generated when (data) ingested into BigQuery, represented by text.  | 
                        ALPHANUMERICSTRING | X(200) |