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Location:
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Type of Organization:
Public
Health Organization |
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Twin Cities African American Recovery
Maintenance Services |
Agency Description: Recovery Resource Center (RRC),
a division of RESOURCE, a multicultural and multiracial
non-profit, community-based chemical health treatment
program. RRC provides comprehensive primary and
aftercare services to their clients including:
individual case management and counseling, health
education, employment services, parent education, and
child care coordination and assistance.
Project Description: RRC, in partnership with My
Home, Inc. (St. Paul) received funding from Minnesota’s
Department of Health, Chemical Health division to
implement the Twin Cities African American Recovery
Maintenance and Support program (TC AARMS). TC AARMS
works to provide culturally-specific recovery
maintenance services for chemically dependent African
American men and women. Under this grant, TC AARMS
clients would experience higher rates of treatment
completion and sobriety, improved life skills, decreased
chemical use, and increased alternatives to violence
and/or chemical use. AARMS clients at RRC can live in
sober, supportive housing; My Home is currently working
on acquiring housing services for their clients.
ACET Services: Starting in 2008, RRC contracted
with ACET to evaluate of the AARMS Program. First, ACET
collaborated with RRC staff to develop program-specific
logic models, evaluation plans, and evaluation
timelines. Second, ACET staff provided extensive
feedback on a cross-program intake/exit tool which
provided very valuable information on client perceptions
of the recovery process and progress made at exit. Next,
after discussions between RRC and ACET, RRC amended the
logic model and incorporated some pre- and
post-treatment data already collected by staff into the
evaluation. Fourth, ACET collaborated with RRC staff to
develop focus group scripts for clients and staff of
each of the programs listed above. Last, ACET worked
with RRC staff to develop a cross-program interview
script to guide discussions with RRC’s community
partners and key collaborators. Each spring, ACET
facilitates focus groups with the clients and staff in
the MARFU, TC AARMS and SHARE programs, analyzes and
summarizes the focus group findings, and analyzes staff
and client data and summarizes findings in a year-end
technical report. After sharing the year-end reports,
ACET also debriefs with RRC staff for their feedback and
outcome interpretation.
Date of Service: 2008-Present |
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