Kentucky River Foothills

The Center on Drug and Alcohol Research will be responsible for conducting the evaluation for the Center on Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) funded project with Kentucky River Foothills, a subcontractor of the City of Richmond, Kentucky, the CSAT grant recipient. The evaluation approach can be described as a pre/post test design. The design includes follow-up measures. Baseline data will be collected at treatment entry, and supplemented with data collection (both process and outcome) while women receive treatment and at follow-up for the outcome evaluation for 54 substance abusing women in Kentucky. The evaluation has three primary objectives: (1) To determine client characteristics associated with project completers and project non-completers; (2) To examine short-term and long-term project outcomes based on intensity and duration of treatment; and (3) To complete an annual process evaluation. This evaluation will comply with GPRA that includes, but is not limited to, collecting client outcomes at 6 and 12-month follow-ups using GPRA Core Client Outcomes.