The information in this program outline is provided by the program representative and edited by the CEBC staff. The The Mandt System program has been reviewed by the CEBC in the area of: Behavioral Management for Adolescents in Child Welfare, but lacks the necessary research evidence to be given a Scientific Rating.

• Types of Maltreatment: Physical Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Physical Neglect, Emotional Abuse, Exposure to Domestic Violence
• Target Population: The program is sub-clinical and thus provides the foundation upon which the clinical and programmatic skills of staff within the organization prevent, de-escalate, and/or intervene in potentially aggressive situations with service recipients.

THE MANDT SYSTEM is a program that teaches staff how to incorporate the components that form the context in which all human services are provided and received.

THE MANDT SYSTEM uses a Train-the-Trainer model to provide organizations with the tools to increase the emotional, psychological, and physical safety of service recipients and service users. In addition to helping in a treatment center, school or other such environment, THE MANDT SYSTEM has a version of the non-physical aspects of the program specifically written for families. This empowers the certified trainers to not only teach the staff, but the families as well, how to best support children and adolescents when they are in their home settings instead of in schools, pre-schools, treatment centers, and other programs. THE MANDT SYSTEM can be taught to students, and has been taught to students as young as 9 years old.

The primary goal of THE MANDT SYSTEM is to build healthy workplace relationships, first between the staff of the organization to address horizontal violence, and then between the staff and the service recipients and their families, to address vertical violence (violence between service recipients towards each other and/or staff). By striving towards and achieving this goal, organizations can provide for the physical, psychological, and emotional safety of all stakeholders.