HSR
Develops a Training Program for the Arizona Department of Health
Services
Health
Systems Research, Inc. in collaboration with the Arizona Department
of Health Services, Division of Behavioral Health developed a training
program for providers on the State’s new covered behavioral
health services to ensure that clients needs are identified and met.
Program
Facilitator's Manual:
(to download the printable PDF versions of these modules, you must first have Adobe
Acrobat Reader installed on your pc. To download a specific module, simply "right-click" on
that link below and save it to your pc)
Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation Awards Fellowship to HSR Associate Tom
Hill for Developing Leadership in Reducing Substance Abuse
HSR Senior
Policy Associate Tom Hill was recently named a fellow by the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation as part of its Developing Leadership for
Reducing Substance Abuse program. Under this national program designed
to support emerging leaders in the field of substance abuse prevention
and treatment, the Foundation provides assistance to fellows over
a three-year period to implement a community project based on the
fellow’s individual experience and expertise. Mr. Hill will
work with grassroots recovery communities to collaborate on a series
of leadership development modules focusing specifically on people
in recovery from addiction, their family members, and allies.
The fellowship will build upon Mr. Hill’s existing work providing
technical assistance to recovery organizations as part of HSR’s
contract with the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment to support its
Recovery Community Services Program.
California
Releases HSR’s Analysis of County Plans for Proposition 36
In November
2000, the State of California passed the Substance Abuse and Crime
Prevention Act (SACPA)—often referred to as Proposition 36—to
reduce drug-related crime by offering non-violent drug offenders
treatment as an alternative to incarceration. As a condition of receiving
funds to operate drug treatment programs, California counties must
annually submit a county plan describing the processes and services
that they will employ to implement the Act, as well as proposed expenditures.
HSR recently assisted the California Department of Alcohol and Drug
Programs with the analysis of these plans as part of a contract with
the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment to provide training and
technical assistance to help publicly funded substance abuse treatment
systems reform their operations to improve access to and quality
of care. Our analysis specifically examined what SACPA services will
be offered across California counties, how they will be coordinated,
and how counties intend to expend SACPA funds. HSR’s analysis,
which also looks at variation in plans based on county size, appears
on the Department’s Web site at: http://www.adp.cahwnet.gov/SACPA/coplanindex.shtml.
Dr. William
Ford, HSR's Substance Abuse and Behavioral Health Practice Leader,
recently presented a preliminary analysis of the county plans under
Proposition 36 at the annual County Lead Agency Implementation Meeting,
held in Sacramento on October 28-29, 2003. This presentation includes
a comparison of the FY 2001/02, 2002/03, and 2003/2004 county plans.
CLICK
HERE to view the presentation (or you may right-click and download
the presentation to your pc).
HSR
Supports Web-Assisted Audio Conference Series on Bioterrorism
For the
User Liaison Program of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality,
HSR has been involved in organizing, designing, and hosting a series
of Web-assisted audio conferences to disseminate health services
research findings to State and local health policymakers. Recently,
HSR has hosted the first three in a series of five events related
to bioterrorism. These events have focused on a range of emergency
preparedness issues, including smallpox, disaster planning drills,
and surge capacity assessments and regionalization issues. Each event
has brought more than 1500 participants from across the country together
to discuss Federal initiatives and research efforts that can help
expand the capacity to deal with potential bioterrorism events. To
participate in the next event in this series, visit http://www.hsrnet.net/ahrq-ulp/bioterrorism.
For more
about this and other audio conferences sponsored by the User Liaison
Program, visit http://www.ahrq.gov/news/ulpix.htm.
HSR
Publishes Article on Children’s Preventive Health in Pediatrics
Under the
auspices of the Maternal and Child Health Information Research Center,
a project for the Maternal and Child Health Bureau within the Health
Resources and Services Administration, HSR contributed to the research
and development of the article, “Factors That Influence Receipt
of Recommended Preventive Pediatric Health and Dental Care,” published
in the December 2002 edition of Pediatrics. Analyzing data from the
1999 National Survey for America’s Families, the authors found
that a substantial proportion of American children do not receive preventive
care according to professionally recommended standards, especially dental
care. Risk factors that contribute to the non-receipt of care include
age, uninsurance, race, and the educational level attained by parents.
The full article is available online at: http://www.pediatrics.org.
Evaluation
of Dissemination Activities for Surgeon General Reports, Office of
the Surgeon General
As part
of an ongoing project to produce the upcoming Surgeon General’s
Report on Osteoporosis and Bone Health, HSR was recently asked to
evaluate marketing and dissemination activities for this and past
Surgeon General Reports. The Surgeon General has raised important
questions about the most effective ways information can be communicated
to key target audiences to improve public health. Surgeon General
Reports represent a considerable investment of public funding, however,
there has been little evaluation of the effectiveness of the dissemination,
marketing, and communication activities of previous Surgeon General
Reports, and little measurement of the impact of Surgeon General’s
Reports on consumer behavior, health practice, and public policy.
The principal objectives of this evaluation are twofold: 1) to identify
potentially effective strategies for the delivery of the findings
from The Surgeon General’s Report on Osteoporosis and Bone
Health to a variety of target audiences, and 2) to construct preliminary
designs for potentially effective and efficient ways to evaluate
the results and impact of the messages and strategies used to disseminate
the findings and key messages of the Report.
Technical
Assistance to the Recovery Community Services Program, Center for
Substance Abuse Treatment, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration
For nearly
five years, HSR provided technical assistance to SAMHSA’s Recovery
Community Support Program (RCSP I), a project aimed to build the
capacity of the recovery community to participate as a valued stakeholder
in the public dialogue about addiction, treatment, and recovery.
Last year, SAMHSA announced that it would shift current and future
recovery community initiatives to RCSP II, the Recovery Community
Services Program, which will emphasize peer recovery support services.
By building the capacity of the recovery community to support sustained
recovery, RCSP II will help reduce relapse and “revolving door” demands
on system resources. HSR recently was awarded another contract to
continue supporting the work of RCSP grantees. Our assistance will
include providing various forms of technical assistance to grantees,
convening grantee meetings, and producing materials on lessons learned
within the recovery community.
