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Using Organizational Strategies to Improve Substance Abuse Treatment for Probationers: A Case Study in Delaware

Author: Laura Monico.; Sami Abdel-Salam.; Daniel O’Connell.; Christy A. Visher.; Steven Martin.

Source: Volume 20, Number 02, July/August 2016 , pp.17-25(9)

Abstract:

Delaware is among nine research centers that tested the implementation of a linkage intervention as a strategy for improving drug abuse treatment coordination with supervision activities by community corrections. The nine-site study was structured with an experimental design, and all research centers involved in the study selected two agency partnership pairings of one criminal justice and one treatment organization. This article follows the Delaware center through the assessment, determining needs and goals, the strategic planning phase, implementation, and followup.

Keywords: community- based treatment alternatives for drug offenders; pharmacotherapy; Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies’ (CJDATS) Medication Assisted Treatment in Community Corrections Environments (MATICCE); organizational linkage intervention;

Affiliations: 1: Friends Research Institute; 2: West Chester University; 3: University of Delaware; 4: University of Delaware; 5: University of Delaware.