Andrea Acevedo

TL;DR: Data demonstrate that state agencies can calculate performance measures from routinely available information and that there is wide variability in these indicators.

TL;DR: Results showed that, overall, integrated services were beneficial for women across the different racial/ethnic groups in substance abuse treatment, although some differences appear to exist across racial/ ethnic groups in improving addiction severity and mental health and PTSD symptomatology.

TL;DR: It was found that Black clients were least likely to initiate treatment, but no race or ethnic differences in treatment engagement were found when compared by race or ethnicity.

TL;DR: Engaged clients in outpatient treatment is a promising approach to decrease their subsequent criminal justice involvement and had a significantly lower hazard of any arrest than non-engaged in all four states.

TL;DR: Investigating the extent to which treatment engagement, a widely adopted performance measure, is associated with employment, an important outcome for individuals receiving treatment for substance use disorders finds that for clients with prior criminal justice involvement, engagement was associated with both employment and higher wages following treatment.