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Location:
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Type of Organization:
Public
Health Organization |
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Project Bridge to SHARE |
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: In 2008, RRC received
funding from Minnesota Department of Health, Chemical
Health Division to implement the Project Bridge to SHARE
(SHARE - Safety, Housing, Access to support services,
Recovery maintenance, and Economic opportunities). The
goal of the SHARE program was to increase access to
treatment, continuing chemical health care, housing, and
supportive services to homeless men and women who suffer
from chronic chemical dependency and chronic
homelessness. As a result of the SHARE program, SHARE
clients would experience improved maintenance of stable
housing, reduced chemical use and increased sobriety,
increased recovery maintenance and life skills, improved
mental health, improved self-sufficiency, and improved
quality of life.
ACET services: RRC included ACET in the
evaluation of the SHARE project. 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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