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State and private family preservation programs across the country have been faced with the challenge of evaluating program effectiveness and to better meet the needs of client populations by enhancing treatment models and programs; The Nevada State Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS) has utilized valuable resources to evaluate their Intensive Family Preservation (IFP) service program to discover its effectiveness. The program has been the subject of a longitudinal study. Research data from the 1999 fiscal year was used to examine the effectiveness of the Functional Family Therapy (FFT) model on substance-involved families. This secondary analysis discovered that the preservation services in Las Vegas are effective but that substance involved families have significantly lower outcome scores. 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