2020
Data tables for Year 3 of the evaluation.
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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Data tables for Year 3 of the evaluation.
Summary of the Year 3 report, presenting key findings regarding WRS outcomes and families served.
This report presents a description of the women and children served by WRS programs and outcomes for families during the third year of the 5-year grant.
Presents evaluation results from year two of the grant. It includes a description of the families served, services provided, and program outcomes.
Summary of evaluation results from year two of the grant.
Presents a description of women and children served in early 2017 and preliminary outcomes for families.
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 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 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.
This summary presents highlights of the Womens Recovery Services in Minnesota: Year Four Findings report.
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