Not only has the Bethesda program been a national model since 1992, but it has also proven to be highly effective.

• Summary of the Bethesda Relational Healing Model and Student Peer Governance Program: a Mixed-Method Study of their Effects on Behavior, Relationships, and School Climate in a Christian School By Kathleen Watts - 2008
   
• Bethesda Family Services Foundation Parenting Program Assessment of Relational Issues - 2007
    
• Bethesda Family Services Foundation Durham County's A New Day North Carolina Governor's Crime Commission - 2007 
   
• Bethesda Family Services Foundation The Office of Juvenile Affairs Oklahoma Recidivism Study - 2005
   
• Bethesda Family Services Foundation Level E Residential Program for Females - 2003 Behavioral Assessment of Juveniles Served
   
• Bethesda Family Services Foundation Level E Residential Program for Females -2004 Behavioral Assessment of Juveniles Served
   
• A New Day's Summer 2005 Program Behavioral Assessment of Juveniles Served
   
• Physical Restraint Reductions
   
• Philadelphia Recidivism Study
   
• Union County, Pennsylvania Recidivism Study

It is because of our unique and powerful Relational Healing model that we were named "Promising Program" by the University of Utah, Department of Health Promotion & Education, and the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.