You can apply for an Overall Transformation of Your Program
By completing this form, you can apply to receive a TA for your treatment program.
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What is included:
- A pre-evaluation to determine strengths, improvement areas and baseline data for indicators to quantify and qualify change in treatment structure, content, process and outcomes on program and patient levels.
- On-site review of every policy to improve the women-centered response of care, review of forms that are used with patients and recommendations for changes to provide a women-centered focus of care.
- The physical site of treatment will be reviewed and patients and staff will engage in creating art that reflects hope, recovery, and a women-responsive treatment.
- Based on the pre-evaluation, trainings will be provided to the staff to improve trauma-responsive care, women-responsive care and the physical and psychological safety of patients and other issues that are found lacking.
- In a shared-decision making process, the staff and TA resource people will determine measures and outcomes to evaluate, outline and implement the process to evaluate the changes made in the program to improve program and patient outcomes (e.g., completion of treatment, reduction in leaving against medical advice, drug abstinence, no new legal involvement etc.)
- A post-evaluation report will provide the treatment program with a road map to follow for continued implantation and improvement and on-going consulting calls will be held to troubleshoot issues.