Evaluation for the Center on Substance Abuse Treatment Men (CSAT-Men)

The University of Kentucky Center for Drug and Alcohol Researrch will be responsible for conducting the evaluation for the Center on Substance Abuse Treatement (CSAT) funded project awarded to The Hope Center. The evaluation approach can be described as a pre/post test design. The design includes follow-up measures at 6 months post baseline for homeless men who are at-ristk for HIV. Baseline data will be collected at treatment entry, and supplemented with data collection (both process and outcome) while men receive treatment and at follow-up for the outcome evaluation for homeless men in The Hope Center program. The evaluation has three priliminary objectives: 1) To describe client charactertistics at treatment entry into the CSAT funded project; 2) To examince short-term project outcomes based on intensity and duraton of treatment; and, 3) To complete a process evaluation. Reports will be provided to The Hope Center for regular CQI meetins and annually to report evaluation findings. This evaluation will comply with GPRA that includes, but is not limited to, collecting client outcomes at 6 months and a treament discharge using GPRA Core Client Outcomes