October 2025
Women’s Recovery Services evaluation data tables for Year 2, June 2023-May 2024.
Women’s Recovery Services (WRS) is an initiative of the Minnesota Department of Human Services Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division. Grantees across Minnesota provide treatment support and recovery services for pregnant and parenting women who have substance use disorders and their families. The evaluation includes process and outcome evaluations and a cost-benefit analysis.
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Women’s Recovery Services evaluation data tables for Year 2, June 2023-May 2024.
The Women’s Recovery program provides treatment support and recovery services for pregnant and parenting women who have substance use disorders, and their families. This is a summary of data from Year Two of the program.
This summary presents highlights of the Womens Recovery Services in Minnesota: Year Four Findings report.
Presents a description of women and children served in early 2017 and preliminary outcomes for families.
The Women’s Recovery program provides treatment support and recovery services for pregnant and parenting women who have substance use disorders, and their families. Wilder Research conducted an evaluation of this initiative, including a process evaluation (description of clients served and services provided) and an outcome evaluation (changes in clients� sobriety, basic needs, and health and well-being, as well as a cost-benefit analysis). This is a summary of preliminary data from July 2011 and May 2012.
The Women’s Recovery Services initiative provides comprehensive, gender-specific, family-centered services for the clients in their care. This report provides an evaluation of program activities from June 2012 through March 2016. Results show that clients showed improvements across multiple areas at program exit, although only some clients maintained these positive outcomes at follow-up. Higher levels of service resulted in better outcomes.
This is a summary of the full report on Women’s Recovery Services program activities from June 2012 through March 2016.
The Women’s Recovery program provides treatment support and recovery services for pregnant and parenting women who have substance use disorders, and their families. Services offered to program participants through the Women’s Recovery Services initiative vary somewhat across sites, but generally include services and supports related to treatment and recovery, basic needs and daily living, mental and physical health, and parenting. This report summarizes program activities from year four of the initiative.
This study demonstrates the economic value of the five-year Women’s Recovery Services initiative, which provides comprehensive, gender-specific, family-centered treatment support and recovery services for pregnant and parenting women who have substance use disorders, and their families. The 10 programs served a total of 951 clients with 1,931 children in year four, the basis for this study. Conservative estimates detailed in this report show that the benefits generated by these programs providing Women’s Recovery Services will add up to $22.8 million over the lifetime of participants.
Summary of the Year 3 report, presenting key findings regarding WRS outcomes and families served.
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